She is particularly excited when she believes she has had an impact on the young. One such time was in 1970, after she went to Barney Josephson, the man who had run the Cafe Society clubs some 20 years before, and persuaded him to book her into his Greenwich Village restaurant, The Cookery. He decided to put in a piano, and he put me to playing, and in a little while we had kids coming from all over New York. It doesn't mean that they'll ever be able to hit a ball like Babe Ruth, but they'll still be way ahead in what they set out to accomplish. They're looking for love, and that's what's in the music I'm teaching.
Jazz has healing in it, and a lot of love.