It wasn’t my kind of music, but she was a trailblazer in her own right. (And she had some of the coolest hair I’ve ever seen on a woman.)
That is too bad.
I have no idea what her hair was like, IRL, but she did write like 20% of the tunes in the old “illegal” The Real Book.
Perhaps her tune “Ida Lupino” will start showing up more in jam sessions! (Among other of her compositions, of course!).
Little known fact: she started her career in Theoretical Jazz.
Actually, she started out as a cigarette girl at Birdland.
I regret not having had the chance to see her perform. I did get to see her ex Paul, though, with Steve Swallow and Lee Konitz.
wow … I just had her Duets (w/ Steve Swallow) on rotation the other day …
(and had no idea she was 87!!!)
She sounds still like she knew what she was doing to me.