For those not in the know, Rebecca Kilgore is a celebrated jazz vocalist known for her effortless portrayals of the Great American Songbook. Sadly, in 2024, Rebecca was diagnosed with Dementia with Lewy Bodies, and is currently in an adult foster care home.

She was a frequent guest on National Public Radio’s ‘Fresh Air’ with Terry Gross, has appeared on ‘A Prairie Home Companion’, and with Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall. She has performed with the Statesmen Of Jazz, dedicated to perpetuating the art of jazz for future generations.

Rebecca Kilgore has over 50 recordings in her discography, with Dave Frishberg, Harry Allen, Dan Barrett, John Sheridan, Nicki Parrott, Rossano Sportiello, Paolo Alderighi, and many others.

Rebecca Kilgore’s musical collaboration with composer and pianist Dave Frishberg began in the 1980s and included a five-year run at the Heathman Hotel in Portland, Oregon, among many other engagements. Following Dave’s death in 2021, Ms. Kilgore and her husband, the talented arranger and trumpeter Dick Titterington, undertook the recording of a tribute album.

A Little Taste: A Tribute to Dave Frishberg is that album and it is released on October 30th, 2024 via Cherry Pie Music.

1. A Little Taste (2:51)
2. Our Love Rolls On (3:42)
3. Peel Me a Grape (5:08)
4. Little Did I Dream (2:34)
5. Heart’s Desire (4:28)
6. Snowbound (3:17)
7. Brenda Starr (3:01)
8. Telephone Song (2:36)
9. Ah, So Pure (3:25)
10. You Are There (2:56)
11. Eastwood Lane (4:40)

This dutifully elegant new recording opens on the lavishly opulent title track A Little Taste and the languishing Our Love Rolls On, and then we get the playful Peel Me a Grape, the pleasurable Little Did I Dream and my personal favorite, the aching yearn that threads throughout the dulcet Heart’s Desire.

Along next is the sunny hop skip of Snowbound and the more percussionally strident fare of Brenda Starr and they are in turn backed by the jaunty rhythms within Telephone Song, the beautifully sculpted, ragtime-esque at times Ah, So Pure, the album rounding out on the stirring balladry of You Are There, closing on the exquisite piano ballad Eastwood Lane.