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iT'S not the best place to house one of Charleston's true treasures. But the fourth floor of St. Francis Hospital has been home to Ann Baker for the past month, and it will be for a while longer.
Sitting up in her chair, hair in its trademark braids, Baker looks tired from recent surgery to remove a benign lung tumor.
Yet the eightysomething Baker still retains a regal bearing. Which is appropriate.
Baker, in case you don't know - and you should - is a bonafide music legend.
She's been called "Charleston's First Lady of Jazz." No offense to Charleston, but her exploits have earned her a more important title.
In the days when jazz meant a little more than any idiot who could hold a...