Her stunning recording debut in 1959, when she was in her mid-twenties, aspiring to be a classical pianist, and from the get-go — as per Daphne A. Brooks’ sleeve-notes — ‘an astonishingly daring, dazzlingly confident, endlessly adventurous artist with a deep well of formidable instrumentality up her sleeve as well as a wide and robust, rich and varied knowledge of jazz, blues, American songbook, folk and spiritual standards and aesthetics.’
Several signature tunes here already, too.