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• “BILLIE HOLIDAY” (IN WHITE INK)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 128
  Did you get money for Christmas?  If you’re a Billie Holiday fancier, and your loved ones have been particularly generous, perhaps you might care to bid on this precious item — a copy of the red-label Columbia 78 rpm reissue of WHEN YOU’RE SMILING signed by Miss Holiday in white ink.  The starting bid is one ...
  23 hours ago

• David Stone Martin

  
  VIEWS FROM BAY RIDGE — Authority: 129
  Beautiful illustration. And what an album...
  1 day ago

• Anti-Racism Set to Music

  
  racismreview.com — Authority: 543
  I wanted to follow up on yesterday’s post about racist lyrics set to a holiday song with a counter example, this one of an anti-racist song.  “Strange Fruit,” made famous by Billie Holiday, stands out as one of the most notable anti-racist songs ever written. In 1930, two African-American men, Thomas Shipp ...
  2 days ago

• RIP: Photographer Bob Willoughby, 1927-2009

  
  Flavorwire Visual Arts — Authority: 99
  Movie-set photographer Bob Willoughby died last week at the age of 82 from cancer. While he shot images of everyone from Billie Holiday to Mia Farrow for the pages of Life and Look magazines, he picked Audrey Hepburn as his muse — claiming she had a “smile that God designed to melt mortal men’s hearts.” ...
  3 days ago

• HERBIE NICHOLS: A JAZZIST’S LIFE

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 128
  Two biographies of jazz musicians have recently gotten much well-deserved media attention: Robin G. Kelley’s study of Thelonious Monk, Terry Teachout’s Louis Armstrong book.  The Mercury Press has just published jazz scholar Mark Miller’s biography of pianist-composer Herbie Nichols.  It’s a small ...
  5 days ago

• BILLIE, IN BETTER LIGHT

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 128
  I’m glad that a number of my readers found the nearly-prurient Carl Van Vechten photographs of Billie Holiday equally disturbing.  I needed to put something in their place.  Earl Hines told Whitney Balliett in a New Yorker Profile, “Sunshine always opens out,” his way of saying that good fortune eventually ...
  1 week ago

• BILLIE HOLIDAY, SEEN

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 128
  Most photographs of Billie Holiday show her as beautiful, whether thin or overweight, dressed ornately or plainly.  Often she looks mournful.  Of course it is hard to say what her unposed expressions were like.  Did the photographer ask her to strike a pose, or to think of STRANGE FRUIT?  I prefer to recall a ...
  1 week ago

• “BIRDLAND,” or “TWEET AND LOVELY”

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 128
  Although I have been guilty of the same bad-mannered satire about compressing any worthwhile utterance into 140 characters or less, I’ve finally succumbed to the blandishments of the newest form of “social networking” and put this blog on Twitter, if that’s the correct idiom — as Jazz_Lives . I’ve also ...
  1 week ago

• Pearl Cream and Top Idol watch Adam Lambert on Conan O’Brien

  
  Top Idol — Authority: 521
  Pearl Cream downloaded Adam Lambert’s For Your Entertainment …because Amazon offered it to him for $1. He informs me of this before Lambert sings on Conan O’Brien. We’re sitting in my living room, snacking and smoking the occasional cigarette. It’s just like old times, when he lived down the street. Oskar ...
  1 week ago

• I cover the Waterfront

  
  SqueezeMyLemon — Authority: 138
  I dont have to choose since they are all so good in their own right. Does anyone have a particular preference or memory?
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• CHARLES PETERSON GOES TO A PARTY (1939)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 128
  Want to come to a party?  Duke Ellington, Dave Tough, Hot Lips Page, Billie Holiday, Ivie Anderson, Pee Wee Russell, Johnny Hodges, and Chu Berry will be there. Unfortunately, I sent out the invitation a little late, because the party ended seventy years ago.  But Charles Peterson was there with his camera.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• I’m A Fool To Want You

  
  Travel, Travel Vacations, Travel City, European Travel and more Informations — Authority: 454
  Billie (jazz) Holiday … Billie Holiday jazz
  2 weeks ago

• The Sound of Jazz

  
  Revolution 21's Blog for the People — Authority: 129
  In the creative arts, greatness does not lie in the impressiveness of ones tool box. Greatness, instead, is an affair of the heart -- and the soul. Today, our materialistic and technology obsessed culture too often thinks greatness can be purchased . . . or, at least, manufactured if enough technological and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Editor’s Pick #237: Common’s “Strange Fruit”

  
  20 Watts — Authority: 135
      Discarded track from Commons Finding Forever leaks PREVIEW: Listen to “Strange Fruit” on YouTube Apparently “Strange Fruit” was spared from Common’s 2007 Grammy-winning album, Finding Forever .  But I don’t see why.  The discarded song which recently surfaced samples Nina ...
  2 weeks ago

• Billie Holiday

  
  snaggletoothie of the Loyal Opposition — Authority: 439
  Billie Holiday - I`m A Fool To Want You Billie Holiday - Love Me Or Leave Me
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• musicology #453

  
  http://themusicologist.wordpress.com — Authority: 123
  TheManWithTheBag #3 (Butterbeans & Susie – Papa Ain’t No Santa Claus) Top ranking slice of the Christmas pie courtesy of three swingin’ Cats, Butterbeans & Susie, (Jodie Edwards and Susie Hawthorne), a long standing and much loved Vaudeville duo who teamed up in 1916 !! and Jazz pianist Eddie ...
  2 weeks ago

• Billie Holiday 3rd version

  
  Hallidd's Weblog — Authority: 414
  The third version of my Billie Holiday piece
  2 weeks ago

• Complete Commodore and Decca Masters

  
  blackgrooves.org — Authority: 118
  Title:  The Complete Commodore and Decca Masters Artist:  Billie Holiday Label:  Hip-O Select Format:  3 CD box set; MP3 Catalog No.:  B0013146-02 Release Date:  November 10, 2009 The middle years of Billie Holiday’s career were recorded on Commodore and Decca, though these recordings are often ...
  2 weeks ago

• imix time

  
  Via Tania — Authority: 109
  New i-mix! It’s the holidays and lots of people I know sew and create things in their studios, it’s kinda lonely. Here’s a mix for you all to sew to! Here’s an earlier one , just stating the case, gawd I’m about to go craaaazy with mixes, I am including Via Tania in them, that’s a bit ...
  2 weeks ago

• Masterpiece: Songs For Distingué Lovers

  
  dk presents... — Authority: 125
  [Today: Billie Holidays pain, carved into stone...]Billie Holiday had a voice for the ages. Reedy, careworn and lovely, it seems informed by the endless troubles that encompassed her life. She worked as a teenage prostitute, was beaten by husbands, became addicted to heroin, did time in prison, had her cabaret card ...
  3 weeks ago

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