It's no exaggeration to say it's a huge honor to get to sing at the Nobuko Cobi Narita memorial. From the NY Times: "Cobi Narita, an indefatigable jazz impresario who for more than 40 years in New York City produced concerts, celebrated female artists in an annual festival and ran performance spaces, died on Nov. 8 in Los Angeles. She was 97" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/arts/music/cobi-narita-dead.html