l p Posted April 7, 2015 Report Posted April 7, 2015 (edited) paris 1958 Edited April 7, 2015 by l p Quote
sgcim Posted April 7, 2015 Report Posted April 7, 2015 For BH's 100th birthday, WKCR has been playing all BH on their jazz shows all week. Today and tomorrow, they'll be playing BH 24/7. They've played a lot of her early stuff with neanderthal rhythm sections, and she seemed to react to her rhythm section, causing her to sound much less nuanced then her later stuff. Then they played her later stuff with Tony Scott as her musical director, and he hired much hipper musicians like Kenny Burrell and others, and you can hear her genius as she reacts to the hipper changes and sings some incredible things. Quote
John L Posted April 7, 2015 Report Posted April 7, 2015 Happy birthday, Lady Day, and thank you so much for the music! Quote
optatio Posted April 7, 2015 Report Posted April 7, 2015 Drawing by Marion Brown 1983 Source: Marion Brown: Recollections, Essays, Drawings, Miscellania. J.A.S. Publication, Frankfurt/Main 1984, p. 231 Quote
bluesoul Posted April 8, 2015 Report Posted April 8, 2015 The New Yorker has a nice photo gallery and a book review up this week. Quote
paul secor Posted April 8, 2015 Report Posted April 8, 2015 I was listening to a classical radio station yesterday and they played a cut from an album of songs associated with Billie Holiday, played by pianist Lara Downes. Of course, since it was a classical station, they wouldn't play even one cut of Billie herself. Perhaps they thought her music might contaminate the usual stuff they play. Quote
philtenb Posted April 13, 2015 Report Posted April 13, 2015 Have you seen this new 2-cds from Uptown Records : "Billie Holiday Banned From New York City Live 1948-1957" ? Seems very interesting ! More infos : (2-CD set) 42 track collection of live recordings spanning the years 1948-1957 with various groups including Billie Holiday trios, Red Norvo All Stars, Skitch Henderson Orchestra and Billie Holiday trio with Paul Quinichette. 110 minutes of music including Good Morning Heartache, Lover Man, Strange Fruit, Russian Lullaby, Laura, The Man I Love, He's Funny That Way and many more. links : http://www.uptownrecords.net/home/store/111.html Quote
jazzbo Posted April 13, 2015 Report Posted April 13, 2015 Cool! Amazon has the MP3s now, will probably have the discs for pre-order soon. Quote
optatio Posted April 13, 2015 Report Posted April 13, 2015 Tribute to Billie Holiday - Ein Abend mit Cassandra Wilson. Aus der Philharmonie München, Dec. 12, 2014. 77 Min. On ARTE.TV yesterday night, now on web till July 12, 2015. Line-up: Cassandra Wilson (voc) Grégoire Maret (harmonica) Brandon Ross (g) Jon Cowherd (p) Lonnie Plaxico (b) John Davis (dr) http://concert.arte.tv/de/cassandra-wilson-billie-holiday Quote
medjuck Posted April 13, 2015 Report Posted April 13, 2015 Have you seen this new 2-cds from Uptown Records : "Billie Holiday Banned From New York City Live 1948-1957" ? Seems very interesting ! More infos : (2-CD set) 42 track collection of live recordings spanning the years 1948-1957 with various groups including Billie Holiday trios, Red Norvo All Stars, Skitch Henderson Orchestra and Billie Holiday trio with Paul Quinichette. 110 minutes of music including Good Morning Heartache, Lover Man, Strange Fruit, Russian Lullaby, Laura, The Man I Love, He's Funny That Way and many more. links : http://www.uptownrecords.net/home/store/111.html Anyone know how many (if any) of these performances were issued by ESP? Quote
John L Posted April 14, 2015 Report Posted April 14, 2015 Have you seen this new 2-cds from Uptown Records : "Billie Holiday Banned From New York City Live 1948-1957" ? Seems very interesting ! More infos : (2-CD set) 42 track collection of live recordings spanning the years 1948-1957 with various groups including Billie Holiday trios, Red Norvo All Stars, Skitch Henderson Orchestra and Billie Holiday trio with Paul Quinichette. 110 minutes of music including Good Morning Heartache, Lover Man, Strange Fruit, Russian Lullaby, Laura, The Man I Love, He's Funny That Way and many more. links : http://www.uptownrecords.net/home/store/111.html Anyone know how many (if any) of these performances were issued by ESP? Or if there are any new discoveries here relative to what has been circulating? Quote
jazzbo Posted April 23, 2015 Report Posted April 23, 2015 Have you seen this new 2-cds from Uptown Records : "Billie Holiday Banned From New York City Live 1948-1957" ? Seems very interesting ! More infos : (2-CD set) 42 track collection of live recordings spanning the years 1948-1957 with various groups including Billie Holiday trios, Red Norvo All Stars, Skitch Henderson Orchestra and Billie Holiday trio with Paul Quinichette. 110 minutes of music including Good Morning Heartache, Lover Man, Strange Fruit, Russian Lullaby, Laura, The Man I Love, He's Funny That Way and many more. links : http://www.uptownrecords.net/home/store/111.html With the Jazz World celebrating 100 years of Lady Day's birth, and when no new musical material seemed to be possibly added to the singer's large and wonderful output, Uptown Records presents this collection of 2-CDs devoted to Billie, on which various previously unknown broadcast recordings come to light. The subtitle speaks about Holiday's impossibility to work in New York clubs during most of those years, due to losing her cabaret card (a document issued by the New York police) because of her problems with drugs and alcohol. The broadcasts present her in various different venues, in America and abroad, and with a diversity of accompanying musicians. But what's most remarkable here, as it couldn't be otherwise, is Billie's voice. The program presents new versions of songs from her usual repertoire, but also a few rarities, such a 1948 Los Angeles reading of her classic but not so often recorded “Strange Fruit” (that program also includes the rarely heard “Maybe You'll Be There”), and a 1949 version throughout and sound quality is quite good considering the rarity of these documents. An amazing discovery. CD 1 Shrine Auditorium Concert, Los Angeles, December 14, 1948[1-6]: Billie HolidayBILLIE HOLIDAY (voc) BOBBY TICKER (p)JOHN LEVY (b) PHIL HAVER (d)[7-13]: Red Norvo All StarsRED NORVO (vib) NEAL HEFTI (tp) HERBIE STEWARD (cl, ts) JIMMY ROWLES (d)ROBERT "IGGY" SHEVAK (b) ROY "BLINKE" GAMER (d)[14-18]: Billie Holiday with Her Trio & Red Norvo All StarsRED NORVO (vib) NEAL HEFTI (tp) HERBIE STEWARD (cl, ts) JIMMY ROWLES (p)ROBERT "IGGY" SHEVAK (b) ROY "BLINKIE" GARNER (d)BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc) BOBBY TUCKER (p) JOH LEVY (b) PHIL HAVER (d)CD 2[1-2] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), CARL DRINKARD (p)The Frank Brookhouser Show, WFIL-TV, Philadelphia, January 30, 1951[3-10] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), CARL DRINKARD (p), RED MITCHELL (b), ELAINE LEIGHTON (d)“Jazz Club USA” Tour in France, Palais de Breaux Arts, Brussels, January 24, 1954[11-15] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), CARL DRINKARD (p), JIMMIE WOODE (b), MARQUIS FOSTER (d)The Hit Hat, Boston, MA., March 7, 1954[16-18] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc) Band Perssonel Not IdentifiedThe Steve Allen Tonight Show. NBC-TV, NYC, February 10, 1956[19-22] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), CORKY HALE (p), JULES MERTAU (b), BOB NEEL (d)Stars of Jazz TV Program, KABC-TV, Los Angeles, CA, August 13, 1956[23-24] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), PAUL QUINICHETTE (ts), CARL MARK (p)SAM SAFFINI (b), DOMINIC SIMONETTA (d)NBC Monitor Broadcast from Mister Kelly's, Chicago IL, March 24, 1957TRACKLISTCD 101. Good Morning Heartache 02. Lover Man 03. You're Driving Me Crazy 04. Maybe You'll Be There 05. I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone 06. Strange 07. Russian Lullaby 08. Bop !09. Sealed witn A Kiss 10. Medley: Embraceable You / Unidentified Bass Feature 11. Laura 12. Adios 13. The Man I Love14. My Man 15. Miss Brown to You 16. Them There Eyes17. No More 18. I Love My ManCD 201. Lover Man 02. Miss Brown to You03. He's Funny That Way 04. All of Me05. My Man 06. Them There Eyes07. I Cried For You 08. Don't Explain09. Fine and Mellow10. What A Little Moonlight Can Do11. Blue Moon 12. All Of Me 13. Tenderly14. Them There Eyes 15. Wollow Weep For Me16. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 17. Steve Allen Interview 18. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance with You19. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone20. I Love My Man 21. My Man 22. Sign Off23. Good Morning Heartache24. You Better Go Now Quote
l p Posted April 23, 2015 Author Report Posted April 23, 2015 http://billieholiday.be/ previously unissued items on this release: CD 1 Shrine Auditorium Concert, Los Angeles, December 14, 1948 (December 15, 1948) ////06. Strange Fruit CD 2 ////[1-2] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), CARL DRINKARD (p) The Frank Brookhouser Show, WFIL-TV, Philadelphia, January 30, 1951 01. Lover Man 02. Miss Brown to You ////[11-15] BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc), CARL DRINKARD (p), JIMMIE WOODE (b), MARQUIS FOSTER (d) The Hit Hat, Boston, MA., March 7, 1954 11. Blue Moon 12. All Of Me 13. Tenderly 14. Them There Eyes 15. Willow Weep For Me Quote
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