This elegant instrumental album -- subtitled Piano & Flute Improvisations -- is a collaboration between two masters, as well as two foremothers of women's music! Mary is known to many of us old-time women's music fans for her 1978 LP on Olivia Records, Something Moving - but she's known to peers as a musician's musician, whose artistry as a pianist is breathtaking and awe-inspiring. Their improvisations flow like practiced compositions, with varied styles ranging from romantic to whimsical. Some tracks were recorded at the 1999 National Women's Music Festival, some at the 1999 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, and some in-studio; released in 2000 by yours truly, Ladyslipper.

Gardner/Watkins