Marilyn Maye interview by Charles Ferruzza

This week, Kansas City lost one native jazz artist — Pearl Thurston Brown died Monday at age 84 — as another legend, one year younger, was literally kicking up her legs (to great applause, by the way) onstage at Jardine's. Kansas-born Marilyn Maye turned 83 years old this year and is having the best third act of any of her Girl Singer contemporaries like Rosemary Clooney, Margaret Whiting, Jane Morgan and Kaye Starr (most of them are either long retired or dead).

more at The Pitch
and a review by Tony Botello