Roy Nathanson met pianist Deidre Rodman through their excellent friend, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, as all three musicians shared the circus as a seminal point of reference. Subsequently, Roy asked Deidre to be the pianist for the European tour of his recording project, “ the Fire at Keaton’s bar and Grille” and a 2 decade-long musical relationship began. Recently, they have been coming together for weekly rehearsals to parse the center of their musical relationship through the lens of their common birthday May 17. They are seeking to find out if they are in fact, one person.