Phoebe Jacobs, born in 1918 in the Bronx, began her career in jazz as the hat check girl at her uncle???s club, where she met and worked with jazz greats such as Sarah Vaughan, Eubie Blake, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Ella Fitzgerald. ???Sarah would say to me, ???Gee, do you know where I can get my dress shortened??? or where can I have my nails done???? They use to ask me things and I woul