I’m Pat Starr, and I’ve been singing my favourites from the Great American Songbook for over 20 years. My first CD How About You? came out in 2012, and I have now recorded another CD for 33 Jazz Records – I Wish You Love. As on the first album, the songs are almost all from the classical jazz repertoire, by George and Ira Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Cole Porter, and other greats from the 1920s and ’30s.

Jazz bands come in different sizes and shapes and each one is interesting and exciting in its own way. I chose to do How About You? with just three instruments: guitar, double bass and tenor saxophone, and I was blessed with three brilliant musicians in Charles Alexander, David Moses and Al Nicholls. For my second album I have used the same trio plus another very special musician, Lester Brown, on trumpet. Both CD’s have been the product of our work together with the fine engineer, Neil Brockbank, at the Gravity Shack Studio.

The artwork on both CD’s was done by Sam Rich. Eliza Beveridge took the photo of me with the classic RCA Victor 44 microphone.