Karin Plato Trio, June 26 at O'Doul's

The opening night of Jazz Festival found us first at a wine tasting at Everything Wine and then at O'Doul's for the second set of the Karin Plato Trio.

I don't know if we'd ever caught one of her shows. Karin has a swinging style and a sweet voice, but at moments she was the girl with the far away voice. Constantly drawing her microphone away from her face sounded, from the back of the bar, like the FM reception was fading in and out. Up close they sounded tight playing lots of standards, such as Fine and Mellow. Lisa Miller backed her up on piano, with Doug Stephenson on bass.

This is our first day on the job at Performance Works, today with Lucas Niggli Zoom. Hopefully, we'll get into Derek Trucks tonight.

-Mari