When Columbia Records dragged some recording gear into a small Greenwich Village nightclub, the Bon Soir, on November 5, 1962, it was a good evening for music—a great one in fact. Barbra Streisand was 20 years old, having made her professional singing debut in the same club two years earlier. About that occasion, Streisand has noted, “I had never even been in a nightclub until I sang in one.”
Over three nights, Columbia recorded Streisand backed by a jazz quartet—Bon Soir house.
