A personal memory

Sandye Utley took the photo of Joe Lovano and Marjean, below. Here's what she wrote today about Marjean:

I knew marjean quite well, having spent much time with her when I
worked there a few of years ago. What I will remember most fondly are the times over the past several seasons when Paavo would drop by after a late after-concert dinner with friends. Marjean would give permission for performers like Mihaela Ursuleasa, Lars Vogt, and Fema Bronfman to take a place at the grand piano after the club's musicians had long since left and we would be treated to impromptu performances, always followed by a jazzy one by Paavo's favorite local pianist Ed Moss, and
then with Ed and our new friend improvising together.

Some truly magical nights ensued (composer Erkki-Sven Tuur playing in the dark and happily proclaiming he was going to play his first blues song for everyone at the Garfield Wisp; Mihaela declaring that she and Ed must play the Mozart piano duets together some day) -- and Marjean always holding forth indulgently, sitting at her
end of the bar, leading the applause at the end.