“The inspiring story of how Katherine Kostoff finally got a chance to create an album with her musical hero Gil Goldstein is the stuff of musical dreams, but it’s the grand, sonically and emotionally expansive result of that collaboration – her exquisite, deeply moving and richly mood swinging It Happens Like That – that ultimately matters as it lays a powerful foundation for more wild creativity to come. Kostoff is already a treasure, an insightful, heartfelt musical poet with a heart-piercing voice that can only be described as “earthly angelic.” The fact that she uses that gift not in the service of yet another round of Songbook standards but to speak her truth, raw and painful as it is sometimes, makes the first listen to the collection an experience no discerning jazz fan eager to play on the wild side will soon forget.” – Jonathan Widran