“When I was four or five years old I heard a woman’s voice singing on the radio.

I had no idea who it was. I do remember that the sound of her voice made me go

all funny inside. I also remember asking my mother, ‘Who’s that lady on the radio?

She sounds so sad.’ My mother said very quietly, ‘That’s Billie Holliday.’ It was

not until I was an adult that my mother would tell me the story of how, when I was

6 months old, she took me to a gig in Atlantic City my father, Jymie, had with Billie

Holliday and…