Alberta Hunter: blues at The Cookery
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A portrait of 87-year-old Black blues artist, Alberta Hunter, who has played with Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and Sidney Bechet. Between her renditions of I got rhythm, Sweet Georgia Brown, and the other numbers she performs at New York's The Cookery, Hunter reveals the story of her life. Giving up music for twenty years to work as a hospital nurse, Hunter began to sing again professionally at the age of 82.
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