About
Betty (Mary Elizabeth) Roche was most closely associated with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and Ellington himself paid her one of his typically elliptical tributes in these terms in his autobiography: "She had a soul inflection in a bop state of intrigue, and every word was understandable despite the sophisticated hip and jive connotations."
State Of Mind
bouncy
Into
Taking the "A" Train, singin' & swingin', doin' the jazz
Vices
I'm too polite for that
Favorite Artists
Duke Ellington Orchestra, Hot Lips Page, Lester Young, Earl Hines, Clark Terry and Charles Brown
