It was a grim Halloween story: In 2009, the cemetery, the last resting place of
jazz great Dinah Washington and civil rights martyr Emmett Till, was found to be reselling burial plots and either interring caskets above those already buried or removing remains to put new bodies in the plots.
She has won Jeff Awards for her portrayals of Ella Fitzgerald,
Dinah Washington and the title character in Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's «Caroline, or Change,» and she rings in the New Year at Northlight with a new lineup of songs celebrating the
greatest female vocalists in American pop and
jazz history.