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by Sheila Lennon
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May 28, 2002 • Today's weblog

Almost famous: Jazz vocalist Susannah McCorkle jumped from the window of her 16th-floor apartment on West 86th Street in Manhattan May 19, 2001. JazzBird is the headline of a New York Magazine tribute:

"... She performed in the best rooms, recorded nineteen albums, and enjoyed more than two decades of acclaim from the jazz press as well as the devotion of fans around the world. But in the months before her death at 55 stunned them all, her record company, Concord, had decided to issue a compilation album instead of a new one, and the Algonquin Hotel had given her precious fall slot at the Oak Room, one of cabaret's most prestigious venues, to a younger singer."

NPR has a McCorkle page with links to two All Things Considered audio pieces: a 1999 feature and a farewell on the day she died.
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