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This new CD release is the result of a season at the excellent Adelaide Cabaret Festival and captures Janet in top form playing instant requests from the audience. The Cabaret show was conceived as a kind of 'art imitating life' idea based on Janet's experiences as a solo cocktail pianist playing piano bars around the world and also including the combined experiences of bassist David Seidel and guitarist Chuck Morgan playing countless lounge gigs over the years. Over the years many people including a scattering of celebrities have sat around Janet's piano and made requests, but this show features real-life requests from the cabaret audience. They wrote their requests, often with special dedications on slips of paper and the trio spent the brief interval figuring out which songs they would then perform on the spot. The CD was recorded over several nights of a sell-out season at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2003 and includes new versions of some songs from Janet's CDs but the majority of tracks are songs she has never recorded before.