By all accounts, Peggy King's career can be described as storied. She has worked with a virtual hall of fame of performers from stage, screen, radio, film and television. It can be said of King, that she's a Queen of all media.

Peggy King and the All-Star Jazz Trio perform in the latest installment of Miller Symphony Hall's monthly "Jazz Upstairs" cabaret series at 7:30 p.m. March 20 in the Rodale Community Room.

The All-Star Jazz Trio is: Andy Kahn, piano; Bruce Klauber, drums, and Bruce Kaminsky, bass.

King and the group, in addition to touring, have recorded tracks for an upcoming album of Great American Songbook standards by composers Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter and George Gershwin. This recording is the first studio session in more than 30 years for King.

"It's very nostalgic," King says in describing the album during a phone interview. "We decided we should do it [the recording] all at one time.

"I don't like when you spread it out over a couple of months. Your voice is always just a little bit different. I don't care what anyone says, your voice changes from day to day.

"You really should do it when your voice is going to be exactly the same. I want [the listener] to know I did it standing in one room at one time."

The tracks recorded in Kahn's living room aim to capture the spirit of an intimate and impromptu live session. King describes the atmosphere as very relaxed.

"Everybody was right-on and we are very used to each other. We have worked together so much now. We were hot. There's no question about it."

King's views her relationship with the All-Star Trio, or "the boys" as she fondly and frequently refers to them, as a true collaboration of equal parts.

"We think of ourselves as four," she explains, "not Peggy and the three of them. It's the most easy-going time I've ever had with a recording. If it sounds like I think it sounds, I'll be very happy.

"They are just incredible. I don't remember a trio like this since Red Norvo," she says. "These guys are like that [Norvo], but jazzier. They are very much a jazz trio."

King's collaboration with the All-Star Jazz Trio came about with some prodding. King's manager, Anthony DiFlorio, suggested that she check out the All-Star Trio, which was performing at a large venue in Philadelphia.

Initially, she was reluctant to attend. "Anthony [DiFlorio] bugged me for days and days to go to this thing downtown where they were playing. I had things to do. And I've heard every trio. I've worked with every trio. He said, 'Please do this for me.'" King ultimately relented.

Following the performance, the group's members approached King and asked her if she would be interested in working with them.

"The whole time I was sitting there, I was thinking, 'Gee, I'd like to work with them.' And we have been together ever since," says King, who has been with "the boys" for going on two years.

"The four of us are very, very close friends. There's nothing we wouldn't do for each other. And when I hear a playback I get a feeling, everyone is going to know that we love each other."

"I think I am just one of those people who had a charmed life, not so much when I was younger, but as I grew older, to be able to do what you love more than anything for a living. It's just hard to believe one could possibly get that lucky."

Tickets: Miller Symphony Hall Box Office, 23 N. Sixth St., Allentown; allentownsymphony.org; 610-432-6715