?Lee knew all the standards, but in his last 25 years he always played the same ones, drawing from a repertoire of about 25 pieces. We played together for the first time in Dortmund in 1986. Eventually Lee and I began playing more as a duo. The recording of our concert from the LOFT in Cologne, 1996, is documented on this CD. The LOFT was packed that night. Charlie Mariano was there and a lot of students and lecturers from the conservatory. They seemed to like what they heard.