Mary Stallings

A Place for Jazz launched its fall concert season with a knock-out performance by trumpeter Tom Harrell last month, and it seemed that the series just wouldn’t be able top it.

But that assumption was proven oh-so-wrong when jazz vocalist Mary Stallings took the stage at the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady’s Whisperdome just two weeks later.

I had missed her in concert last year when she took the microphone with Jimmy Cobb’s Coast to Coast Septet at the Tanglewood Jazz Weekend, but I wasn’t about to make that same mistake again.

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