Album Notes

"These three instrumentalists show how a trio of the top class can communicate with one another. Commited music can always seize the hearts of the listeners."
Marktoberdorf, Germany- Review of a recent 2009 Concert.

Shaw is a veteran pianist who has led a New York area trio for years. Influenced by Oscar Peterson, she has a fine, swinging, two-handed approach and two very compatible players in Jeff Siegel (drums) and Rich Syracuse (Bass).The band is tight without being slick; there's an enjoyable looseness to what they do with a programme of Shaw's own originals and pieces my Jeff Siegel and Rich Syracuse. Shaw retains an enviable harmonic and melodic vocabulary and a bouyant sense of joy in her playing.
Ray Comiskey-The Irish Times

The influence of Oscar Peterson is obvious in Shaw's playing but she utterly transcends all influences. Years of experience as well as her classical training have created a unique style that is deep, harmonically daring and thematically sophisticated. though her laying is often sumptous Shaw is unafraid and will juxtapose passges of lyrically spsrebut still beautifully expressive moments that are utterly ravishing.