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"Hanna Richardson summons up her instigator, Rosemary Clooney, and also Maxine Sullivan. She has their easy swing and their reverence for diction. And she has a voice--no reediness, no whispering, no dullness. And Flanigan has some of the 'listen' quality of Jimmy Blanton." (Whitney Balliett)


On the road in England with Hanna on vocals, Phil on bass, and Chris Flory on guitar. In their third year on tour in the UK, they turned on the recording machine at The Fleece, a charming pub in Boxford, Suffolk that features mainstream jazz (and fabulous food!) year-round. Here's what one reviewer had to say about the trio:

"The seamless, straight ahead vocalising of Richardson is a rare delight. The perfect tone blending between voice, double bass and guitar is achieved, I suspect, by Phil Flanigan using a microphone as opposed to an amplifier, considered almost compulsory today. Chris Flory’s guitar is amplified but the sound they produce is as one and they swing like crazy in all tempos." (Sheila Tracy, The Stage/UK)