According to Wikipedia, her nervousness playing with top-flight players caused her to abandon jazz and become a seamstress in 1958, dying in 2003 in Queens, N.Y. virtually unknown. Sounds like a bit of a stretch to me, so I nosed around.
In 2006, a summary of Katja von Schuttenbach's masters thesis appeared in the July/August 2006 Jazz Podium magazine (go here). Von Schuttenbach [pictured] had just received
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