The two friends chat about McPartland growing up in England listening to Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. Marian had initially started out as a classical pianist. "I was going to Guild Hall School of Music trying to become a classical pianist," recalls McPartland. "I was supposed to be practicing and I was trying to master some of these Art Tatum harmonies that I'd heard and the door was ajar." My professor came in and hollered out 'Stop playing that trash!' I think that's when I started thinking about leaving."

Eventually McPartland did leave the school and headed to the vaudeville theaters. "Some of them were so wonderful with velvet seats and velvet curtains," states McPartland. "I must have played them all everywhere, all over England." While in Belgium at a USO Camp Show, she met trumpeter Jimmy McPartland. The two later played together in the states and the trumpeter eventually became her husband. McPartland talks about her days in Chicago playing with Jimmy, his influence on her, and being among one of the first women to lead her own jazz band.

Marian also shares stories about playing in New York at the Hickory House and Downbeat Club; meeting for the first time some of the musicians she used to listen to on records such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong and Thelonius Monk. She and Taylor also perform Monk's piece "Well You Needn't" and a heart-warming dedication to her late husband Jimmy -- "Singing the Blues" a Bix Beiderbecke tune that he helped popularize.

There are other humorous stories and the two take questions from the audience regarding everything from McPartland's starting her own record label to improvisation with two pianos. One audience member asked Marian if it was love at first sight when she met Jimmy McPartland. She replied, "Not really because we met in a tent in Belgium. They were having this big jam session to honor Jimmy coming into the fifth corps there. Of course I wnted to be in the jam session, pushy as ever. Jimmy said to me later, "Oh I saw you on the other side of the tent and I thought to myself, 'Oh there's a woman jazz player and she wants to sit in and I'm sure she's going to be terrible' and you were," he replied."

Other tunes featured on the show include: "There Will Never Be Another You," "Gone With The Wind," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," and "In The Days of Our Lives."