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View Polly Podewell's recordings as a co-leader, featured soloist or a side person.

She was Her death comes less than a year after that of her husband of more than 60 years, actor Les Podewell, who died in at The.

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Polly Podewell, for example, appeared in the 's and 's with the bands of Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, and Buddy Rich; her low, slightly.

He was internationally known as an expert on jazz and especially Chicago jazz and often acted as a source or consultant for articles, books, dissertations and.

Artists come in all shapes, sizes and sensibilities, of course, but one would be hard-pressed to find two as different as Polly Podewell and Gertrude Stein.

“Different? You might say so,” Podewell said with a smile.

“The most obvious difference is that I’m alive.”

Indeed, Stein has been dead for more than half a century, but she continues to exert a potent influence on contemporary performers, much the same way songwriters such as Gershwin, Porter and Arlen inspire Podewell.

Stein’s name had come up during a lengthy conversation with Podewell about the city’s cultural/entertainment landscape.

Back in town after a five-year interlude in Los Angeles, Podewell found it intriguing that during the same week she was returning to the local cabaret scene, Stein was being given a musical/theatrical tribute at the Chicago Cultural Center.

“It tells me this is still one vibrant town,” Podewell said.

What a pair: Stein the salonkeeper a