Everybody seems to think Madeleine sounds like Billie Holiday, ... I think that's OK, but it's really not all that important an observation. She sounds a little bit like Billie to me, but that's not anything to make a big deal about it.

Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

That evening with 30-year-old Jason Moran. It turns out they've played together before -- on McPartland's show, at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and on what McPartland calls ''several casual dates here and there.

I've never known anyone that could do a ballad that slowly and keep it musical, keep it happening.