Archive for November, 2006
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Saturday, November 4th, 2006
Lady Day, Fine and Mellow
I have already brought up the comforting and empathetic quality of Billie Holiday’s voice in an earlier post on gestures. This video is from the December 8, 1957, CBS television special, “The Sound of Jazz.” In this performance alongside some of the best Jazz musicians of her time, Lady Day (in her early 40s) […]
