The only public concert I played the entire year of the covid pandemic lockdown was a virtual one for broadcast on the internet. Mike, Ed and I imagined being on stage together and presented a program just as if we were playing in front of an audience of real people. There were no second takes, no overdubs, no corrections; we simply played each tune and then moved on. The CD package you are holding in your hands and the sounds that are filling your ears are the document of the live concert we played in actual fact for an audience of one, our videographer John Farrell, who taped and edited the video. John is also a professional sound engineer, and he captured the sound of the trio during recording and skillfully mixed the audio. — John Stein