She also features the West Coast veteran Nancy King as a duo partner, most effectively in a take on Nat Adderley's "Never Say Yes".
Since then he's worked in a variety of projects as a soloist, a duo partner of folk musicians like Carthy, Simon Nicol, Alistair Hulett and Pete Hawkes, as well as playing in folk groups like Whippersnapper, Band of Hope and the Keith Hancock Band - in so doing becoming an iconic figure in both British traditional folk and folk rock.
It's the end of a week at the Jazz Standard, with a different duo partner every night: tonight Mr. Hersch performs with the saxophonist Joe Lovano, tomorrow with the singer Kate McGarry and Sunday night with the singer Kurt Elling.
It's the end of a week at the Jazz Standard  reprising a successful experiment at the club last year  in which a different duo partner is featured each night.
The drummer Andrew Cyrille has proven on many occasions (with the saxophonist Jimmy Lyons and the pianist Borah Bergman, among others) that he's a great duo partner, airy, witty and intense; at 10, he may breathe some of his own laxity into the steely technique of the Swiss pianist Irene Schweizer, who can be one of the best free-music improvisers in the world on a good night.
The weekend's fourth violinist is Vadim Gluzman, who came to the United States from Ukraine via Israel, and has been increasingly busy as an international soloist and duo partner with his pianist-wife, Angela Yoffe.
TIME FOR MUSIC... Olivia, who is a singer, choreographer and rapper, and her duo partner, Arie Dixon, are working on a new club act, so we promised her we'd watch her rehearsals if we're in town.
Turkish American Grammy-nominated composer and performer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and his duo partner Beth Bahia Cohen gave a soaring performance from the meditative Turkish Sufi Mevlevi tradition.
Daniel Barenboim, who had just conducted Argerich as soloist with his orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, had abandoned the podium for one of his favourite activities: a piano duet with his colleague and frequent duo partner, Argerich herself.
Tennessee-raised fellow double bassist Edgar Meyer, McBride's duo partner on this UK tour, is a comparably influential campaigner for an often sidelined instrument, but comes from an intriguingly different angle – as a classical player of startling fluency.
A regular soloist with the New York Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic, Ax also serves on the faculty of Juilliard and is the main duo partner of cellist Yo-Yo Ma, all while playing nearly a hundred of his own concerts every year - performances that are "never less than spellbinding," according to The New York Times.
