Featuring Steve Wilson, Virginia Mayhew, Bill Mobley, Harvie S, Billy Mintz with special guest Karrin Allyson. Produced by Todd Barkan. Piano legend Marian McPartland was eulogized in 2013 as a supremely elegant and accomplished jazz stylist who gracefully conversed and collaborated with a vast array of fellow improvisers from her perch as a beloved public radio host. But her creative output as a composer tends to be overlooked, a situation that should be rectified by Roberta Piket’s brilliantly realized One for Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland. Produced for Thirteenth Note Records by jazz veteran Todd Barkan, it’s a revelatory sextet project that shines a warm, loving light on an extraordinary but underappreciated body of work. “Marian always felt regretful that her tunes weren’t played more,” Piket says. “She felt a little unrecognized in that regard. It’s kind of mysterious why some tunes don’t become standards. She wrote so many g...