Tea for Three
Brigitte Beraha - voice
Alan Barnes - alto sax, clarinet
Barry Green - piano

1 Tea for Two by Vincent Youmans/ Irving Caesar
2 We Have not Long to Love by Brigitte Beraha / Tennessee Williams
3 The Best Thing for You by Irving Berlin
4 Solitude by Barry Green / A.A Milne
5 Pra Dizer Adeus by Edu Lobo / Torquato Neto
6 I'll Be Seeing you by Sammy Fain / Irving Kahal

Recorded live at the Vortex Jazz Club, London, on 24th February, 2023.
Sound recording, mix, mastering & design by Andrew Cleyndert
Photography by Jerry Storer
 
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No drums. No bass player. There’s no need. 
Issued on English jazz reeds icon Alan Barnes’ own Woodville label which specialises in highly retro mainstream and straightahead sounds, singer Brigitte Beraha who is very much an outside avant singer instead tapping more on the vintage an inside vein with standards and originals that end up making you listen that bit more closely.
On ‘Tea for Two’ there are so many layers it’s a tapestry – and the embroidery of a pleasurable Barry Green solo easily elicits applause from the tricoteuses present as there’s an audience. There’s no need for the guillotine to chop anything back.
 
Green was on Ian Shaw and Tony Kofi’s outstanding An Adventurous Dreamlast year. He goes way back with Beraha to their Babelfish days. 
Barnes plays clarinet extensively on the album recorded at the Vortex in Dalston, east London, in late-2023.