Cookin' at the Cookery | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

Alberta Hunter may be the best blues & jazz performer you've never heard of. Born in Memphis in 1895, she launched a professional singing career before the age of 15, but ultimately gave it up to be a nurse. We hear about a new play that tells Hunter's story -- especially how she returned to performing in her eighties and entertained at a Greenwich Village hotspot until her death at 89.