in Liège, in 1955, and came back here the following year #" . , 1Jb z % """ ;("f- ;.'& \ J .ß I and lived in the Village He worked with Miles Davis and J. J. Johnson. Then we separated. He had a heart condition and became ill, and he died. I t was all very sad. I hope someday to get married again. "For the next several years, I worked around N ew York, at the Vil- lage Vanguard, opposite Miles Davis, who became a great friend, and the onginal Upstairs at the DownstaIrs Then I heard the album of 'Beyond the Fringe,' with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett, and I was crazy about it. 1 met Dudle) Moore atget dressed and put on some makeup You go out and poke around, or somethIng, and pick me up in twenty minutes. I like to get to the club real tarlv." She was all in blue and white and gold when I arrived. She was wearing a long royal-blue gown with white cuffs and a white Peter Pan collar, and her neatly parted hair shim- mered. She handed me the sheet music of "Lush Life," and, sitting down at the piano, asked me to prompt her. I prompted her twice, and when she was several bars from the end she stopped again. "1 just don't like the word 'rot' there. I hate it, and I won't sing it." I suggested "die" instead. She thought a moment. "Good! I'll