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Billie Holiday (with Count Basie): They Can't Take That Away From Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

Count Basie featured three singers with his band on this June 30, 1937 live broadcast from Harlem's famous Savoy Bal...

Billie Holiday: Me, Myself and I (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

“Me, Myself and I” is one of the great classics of the Billie Holiday-Lester Young collaborations. The song is recor...

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Billie Holiday: A Sailboat in the Moonlight (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

The electricity evident in “Me, Myself and I” is hot-wired into “Sailboat” -- both recorded at the same session -- as...

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Billie Holiday: Mean to Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

“I guess I’m not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse,” Billie Holiday recalled of a childhoo...

Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Darling, I'd Die Without You, among the hoariest songwriting clichés, was never expressed with greater despondency th...

Billie Holiday: Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Making "Yankee Doodle" its official song was in keeping with Connecticut's Revolutionary spirit. As first sung by Bri...

Teddy Wilson (featuring Billie Holiday): What a Little Moonlight Can Do (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

In June 1935, John Hammond approached Brunswick and secured a 12-month contract guaranteeing one session a month buil...

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Billie Holiday: I Loves You Porgy (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

In the 1940s, Billie Holiday had the misfortune (as if she needed any more) of being contracted to Decca Records, whi...

Paul Whiteman (featuring Billie Holiday): Trav'lin Light (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

This one-off recording with Paul Whiteman on the West Coast is a reminder of what an experienced big band singer Bill...

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Billie Holiday: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 29, 08

Billie Holiday was not the first jazz artist to record "Summertime" (Bob Crosby recorded a transcription version five...

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Billie Holiday: God Bless the Child (1941) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

"Them that's got shall get / Them that's not shall lose / So the Bible said." Thus claims Arthur Herzog's purported "...

Billie Holiday (with Stan Getz): Lover Come Back to Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

In October 1951, George Wein booked Billie Holiday to play at his Storyville nightclub in Boston, where she shared th...

Billie Holiday: Lover Man (1944) (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

According to her autobiography, Billie Holiday begged Decca Records to let her record "Lover Man" with strings. "Peop...

Teddy Wilson (featuring Billie Holiday): I'll Get By (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

One of the high spots of recorded jazz is the Holiday-Young collaborations. Today these recordings are remembered for...

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Benny Goodman (featuring Billie Holiday): Riffin' the Scotch (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

This is Holiday’s recording debut at the age of 18. Record producer John Hammond had taken Benny Goodman, Red Norvo a...

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Billie Holiday: All or Nothing at All (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Norman Granz told me that although he once had to wind up a recording session with Billie because she was too drunk t...

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Billie Holiday: Time On My Hands (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

Although he was amongst the most celebrated jazz soloists of the era, Lester Young takes no solo on “Time on My Hands...

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It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Teddy Wilson (with Billie Holiday): Say It With A Kiss (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

If there be any doubt that Prez and Lady Day were musical soulmates, one listen to their work together on “Say It Wit...

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It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Billie Holiday: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

I wonder if Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer were thinking of Billie Holiday when they wrote “Come Rain Or Come Shine”....

Terence Blanchard: Left Alone (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 09, 09

Terence Blanchard has a recognized flair for arranging. He can skillfully extract pathos from the music when film dir...

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