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- My Funny Valentine - Carmen Mcrae
- My Foolish Heart - Carmen Mcrae
- Miss Brown To You - Carmen Mcrae
- Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) - Carmen Mcrae
- How Long Has This Been Going On? - Carmen Mcrae
- You Took Advantage Of Me - Carmen Mcrae
- How Could I Settle For Less - Carmen Mcrae
- Have You Met Miss Jones? - Carmen Mcrae
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- Don't Explain - Carmen Mcrae
- Dear Ruby - Carmen Mcrae
- Coffee Time - Carmen Mcrae
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My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet youre my favourite work of art
Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?
But dont change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentines day
Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?
But dont you change one hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
The night is like a lovely tune, beware my foolish heart!
How white the ever constant moon, take care, my foolish
heart!
There's a line between love and fascination,
That's hard to see on an evening such as this,
For they give the very same sensation.
When you are lost in the passion of a kiss.
Your lips are much too close to mine, beware my foolish
heart!
But should our eager lips combine, then let the fire
start.
For this time it isn't fascination, or a dream that will
fade and fall apart,
Who do you think is comin to town
Youll never guess who
Lovable, hugable Emily Brown
Miss Brown to you
What if the rain comes pattering down
My heaven is blue
Can it be sending me emily brown
Miss Brown to you
I know her eyes will thrill ya
But go slow, oh, oh
Dont you all get too familiar
Why do you think shes comin to town
Just wait and youll see
The lovable little miss brown to you
Is baby to me, yes, yes
I don't know why but I'm feeling so sad
I long to try something I've never had
Never had no kissin'
Oh, what I've been missin'
Lover man, oh, where can you be?
The night is cold and I'm so all alone
I'd give my soul just to call you my own
Got a moon above me
But no one to love me
Lover man, oh, where can you be?
I've heard it said
That the thrill of romance
Can be like a heavenly dream
I go to bed with a prayer
That you'll make love to me
Strange as it seems
Someday we'll meet
And you'll dry all my tears
Then whisper sweet
Little things in my ears
Hugging and a kissing
Oh, what we've been missing
Lover man, oh, where can you be?
Now I've heard it said
That the thrill of romance
Can be like a heavenly dream
I go to bed with a prayer
That you'll make love to me
Strange as it seems
Someday we'll meet
And you'll dry all my tears
Then whisper sweet
Little things in my ears
A hugging and a kissing
Oh, what we've been missing
I could cry salty tears
Where have I been all these years?
Little wow, tell me now
How long has this been goin' on?
There were chills up my spine
And some thrills I can't define
Listen sweet, I repeat
How long has this been goin' on?
Oh, I feel that I could melt
Into heaven I'm hurled
I know how Columbus felt
Finding another world
Kiss me once, then once more
What a dunce I was before
What a break, for heaven's sake
How long has this been goin' on?
------ piano ------
Let me dream that it's true
Kiss me twice, then once more
That makes thrice, let's make it four
What a break, for heaven's sake
I'm a sentimental sap that's all
What's the use of trying not to fall
I have no will, you've made your kill
Cause you took advantage of me
I'm just like an apple on a bough
And you're going shake me down somehow
But what's the use, you've cooked my goose
Cause you took advantage of me
I'm so hot and bothered that I don't know my elbow from
my ear
I suffer something awful each time you go, it's much
worse when you're near
Here am I with all my bridges burned
Just a babe in arms where you're concerned
So lock the doors and call me yours
Cause you took advantage of me
I have no will, you've made your kill
Cause you took advantage of me
Tell me, what's the use, you've cooked my goose
Cause you took advantage of me
Say, I'm so hot and bothered that I don't know my elbow
from my ear
I suffer something awful each time you go, it's much
worse when you're near
Here am I with all my bridges burned
Just a babe in arms where you're concerned
So lock the doors and call me yours
Mine was a simple story
Never a thought of glory
I did what I did and what I had
I was glad to posses
But you changed my whole direction
And now that I've seen perfection
How could I settle for less?
I was the shyest lover
Ready to run for cover
But look at me now
I'm not the same, I aim to impress
You gave me a glance at heaven
And given a change at heaven
How could I settle for less?
Could Caesar span Cleopatra's door?
Columbus turn once he saw the shore?
I, I don't want fame or treasure
Miracles made to measure
The beautiful things that people
Rate the greatest success
I only want you forever
And you and I close together
How could I settle for?
How, how could I settle?
How could I settle for less?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me daddy, how could I settle for less?
I wanna know, I want to know
It happened
I felt it happened
I was awake
I wasn't blind
I didn't think
I felt it happened
now I believe in matter over mind.
And now you see we mustn't wait
the nearest moment that we marry is too late!
Have you met Miss Jones
someone said as we shook hands
She was just Miss Jones to me
Then i said Miss Jones
you're a girl who understand
I'm a boy who must be free.
And all at once I lost my breath
and all at once was scared to death
and all at once I hold the earth and sky!
Now I met Miss Jones
and well keep on meeting till we die
Days I knew as happy sweet
Sequestered days
Olden days
Golden days
Days of mad romance and love
Then gay youth was mine
And truth was mine
Joyous free and flaming life
Forsooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreaming of
Of yesterdays
Then gay youth was mine
The truth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreaming of
when i fall in love
it will be for ever
or I'll never fall in love
in a wrest lest world like this is
love is ended before it's began
and too many moonlight kisses
seem too cool in the warmth of the sun
when i give my heart
it will be completely
or i never give my heart
and the moment that i feel
that you feel that way too
is when i fall i love with you
when i give my heart
it will be fo ever
or i will never never never never
give my heart
and the moment
that i feel
that you feel the same way too
is when i give my heart
I'm travellin' light
Because my man has gone
And from now on
I'm travellin' light
He said goodbye
And took my heart away
So from today
I'm travellin' light
No one to see
I'm free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories
Some lucky night
He may come back again
But until then
I fell in love with you first time I looked into
Them there eyes
Youve got a certain lil cute way of flirtin with
Them there eyes
They make me feel happy
They make me feel blue
No stallin
Im fallin
Going in a big way for sweet little you
My heart is jumpin
Sure started somethin with
Them there eyes
Youde better watch them if youre wise
They sparkle
They bubble
Theyre gonna get you in a whole lot of trouble
Youre overworkin them
Theres danger lurkin in
Them there eyes
Maybe you think Im just flirtin
Maybe you think Im all lies
Just because I get romantic when I gaze in
When the mellow moon begins to beam
Every night I dream a little dream
And of course Prince Charming is the theme
The he, for me.
Although I realize as well as you
It is seldom that a dream comes true,
To me it's clear
That he'll appear.
Some day he'll come along, the man I love
And he'll be big and strong, the man I love
And when he comes my way,
I'll do my best to make him stay.
He'll look at me and smile, I'll understand
And in a little while, he'll take my hand
And though it seems absurd
I know we both won't say a word.
Maybe I shall meet him Sunday,
Maybe Monday, maybe not
Still I'm sure to meet him one day
Maybe Tuesday will be my good news day.
He'll build a little home just meant for two
From which I'll never roam, who would? would you?
And so, all else above,
Won’t you stop and take a little time out with me, just
take five;
Stop your busy day and take the time out to see I’m
alive.
Though I`m going out of my way,
Just so I can pass by each day,
Not a single word do we say,
It`s a pantomime and not a play
Still I know our eyes often meet,
I feel tingles down to my feet,
when you smile that’s much too discreet,
sends me on my way.
Wouldn’t it be better not to be so polite, you could
offer a light;
Start a little conversation now, it’s alright, just
take five, just take five.
[Improvisation]
Though I`m going out of my way,
Just so I can pass by each day,
Not a single word do we say,
It`s a pantomime and not a play
Still I know our eyes often meet,
I feel tingles down to my feet,
when you smile that’s much too discreet,
sends me on my way.
Wouldn’t it be better not to be so polite, you could
offer a light;
Start a little conversation now, it’s alright, just
You know, uh, ... When I'm making out a show,
I might get the first, four tunes, just like that
and then I will ah, get to the 5th song, and I say -oh,
shit, what can I put in there?
and If I can't get find something, I say, -I can't
lose, If I sing the blues.
If I Should take a notion to go and jump into the ocean
It ain't nobody's bizness if I do.
And if I choose to go to church on Sunday
and then I feel like shrunken all day Monday,
no, T'ain't nobody's bizness if I do.
And if I,if my man, If he ain't got no money,
which is usually the case,
and I wanna say to him -come on and take all my money-
T'ain't nobody's bizness if I do
I said, IF I do.
and if I rather call my man to get me instead of
jumping up and quite me, ohh, baby,
T'ain't nobody's bizness, nobody's bizness if, if I do
Now this is the truth, so hell.
ah, ah, yeah, yeah,
Now if I swear, I wont fall no coper
If I should get beat up by my papa
you better believe,
that T'ain't nono of your bizness if I do
T'ain't nobody's bizness if I do
I say T'ain't nobody's bizness what I do
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Isn't it rich, are we a pair
Me here at last on the ground - and you in mid-air
Send in the clowns
Isn't it bliss, don't you approve
One who keeps tearing around - and one who can't move
But where are the clowns - send in the clowns
Just when I stopped - opening doors
Finally knowing the one that I wanted - was yours
Making my entrance again with my usual flair
Sure of my lines - nobody's there
Don't you love a farce; my fault I fear
I thought that you'd want what I want - sorry my dear
But where are the clowns - send in the clowns
Don't bother they're here
Isn't it rich, isn't it queer
Losing my timing this late in my career
But where are the clowns - send in the clowns
The man who only lives for making money
Lives a life that isn't necessarily sunny
Likewise the man who works for fame
There's no guarantee that time won't erase his name
The fact is, the only work that really brings enjoyment
Is the kind that is for girl and boy meant
Fall in love and you won't regret it
That's the best work of all, if you can get it
Holding hands at midnight
'Neath a starry sky
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Strolling with the one girl
Sighing sigh after sigh
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
It's nice work if you can get it
And if you get it, won't you tell me how?"
(bridge)
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
Nice work if you can get it
My romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of may, no twinkling stars
No hide away, no softly guitars
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need a thing but you
Sometimes I say
If I could just gey away
With my man
He'd go straght sure as fate
For it never is too late
For a man
I just like to dream
Of a cottage by a stream
With my man
Where a few flowers grew
And perhaps a kid or two
Like my man
And then my eyes get wet
I 'most forget
'Till he gets hot
And tells my not to talk such rot
Oh, my man, I love him so
Hell never know
All my life is just a spare
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright
All right
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright
All right
Whats the difference if I say
I'll go away
When I know I'll come back
On my knees someday
For whatever my man is
I'm his forevermore
Whats the difference if I say
I'll go away
When I know Ill come back
On my knees someday
For whatever my man is
You’re talking so sweet
Well you needn’t
You say you won’t cheat
Well you needn’t
You’re tapping your feet
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
You’re dressing with class
Well you needn’t
You’re holding your sass
Well you needn’t
You’re think you’re a gas
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
You had your fun
So take a bow
You ought to know
You lost the blow
The beat is low
The shadows grow
The lights are low
It’s time to go
Let’s close this show down
You’re taking off weight
Well you needn’t
You’re looking just great
Well you needn’t
You’re setting the bait
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
Scat…
You play enough game
Well you needn’t
It’s more of the same
Well you needn’t
You’re coming off lame
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
You’re bending my ear
Well you needn’t
You’re calling me dear
Well you needn’t
You’re acting sincere
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
Don’t wanna see
Don’t need a row
You had you’re day
Your matinee
You had to stray
You know they say
You gonna play
You gotta face
So find a way out
You say that you try
Well you needn’t
You say you won’t lie
Well you needn’t
You’re starting to cry
Well you needn’t
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
It’s over now
If the moon turns green
And shadows get up and walk around
Clouds come tumbling to the ground
I wouldn't be surprised
As didn't you fall in love with me
If the stars turn blue
And willows that weep began to sing
Winter changes into spring
I wouldn't raise my eyes
'Cause didn't you fall in love with me
I thought I was foolish to think of romance
With someone as charming as you
I thought I was hoping without any chance
Then every hope came true
If the moon turns green
And rivers began to flow upstream
This is all a crazy dream
I wouldn't be surprised
Anything can happen
If you can fall in love with me
I thought I was foolish to think of romance
With someone as charming as you
I thought I was hoping without any chance
Then every hope came true
If the moon turns green
And rivers began to flow upstream
This is all a crazy dream
I wouldn't be surprised
'Cause anything can happen
I'm gonna lock my heart
And throw away the key
I'm wise to all those tricks you played on me
I'm gonna turn my back on love
Gonna snob the moon above
Seal all my windows up with tin
So the love bug can't get in
Park my romance right alone the curb
Hang a sign upon my heart
"please don't disturb"
And if i never fall in love again
That's soon enough for me
I'm gonna lock my heart
And throw the key
And it i never tall in love again
That's soon enough for me
I!m gonna lock my heart
And throw away the key
I'll never fall in love again
I'm gonna lock my heart
I will say goodbye, I will walk away
I will speak the words you would heard me say
I will walk away, I will walk alone
I will not look back for I turned to stone
More than just farewell, more than just goodbye
It would be as if we'd never met
You will hear the words, you would have me say
You would have me say, you are not my love
You are not my love, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, my love
I will say goodbye, I will close the door
I was doing all right
Nothing but rainbows in my sky
I was doing all right
Till you came by.
Had no cause to complain
Life was as sweet as apple pie
Never noticed the rain
Till you came by.
But now whenever you're away
Can't sleep nights and suffer all the day
I just sit and wonder
If love isn't one big blunder.
But when you hold me tight
Tingling all through, I feel somehow
I was doing all right
But I'm doing better than ever now.
But now whenever you're away
Can't sleep nights and suffer all the day
I just sit and wonder
If love isn't one big blunder.
But when you hold me tight
Tinglin' all through, I feel somehow
I was doing all right
But I'm doing better
I cried for you
Now its your turn to cry over me
Every road has a turning
That's one thing you're learning
I cried for you
What a fool I used to be
Now I've found two eyes
Just a little bit bluer
I've found a heart
Just a little bit truer
I cried for you
Scat...
Well Monk set it straight
There's not a time when you wait
You gotta be on
You gotta be strong
The time is here
So trust your life
To your ear
Don't wait for no one
They'll have to grow on
Because the homeland is the place where it happens
And there's no one who can help you to straight no
This monk had a way
Of being out of his day
Ahead of his time
Not in the same rhyme with other guys
He was uncommonly wise
He knew the answer
That time's a dancer
You know you can't back up the moment
And take it with you
On the road
Ev'ry time we say goodbye I die a little
Ev'ry time we say goodbye I wonder why a little
Why the Gods above me who must be in the know
Think so little of me, they allow you to go
And when you're near there's such an air of spring about
I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it
There's no love song finer but how strange the change
from major to minor
Ev'ry time we say goodbye
Why the Gods above me who must be in the know
Think so little of me, they allow you to go
And when you're near there's such an air of spring about
I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it
There's no love song finer but how strange the change
from major to minor
Ev'ry time we say goodbye, ev'ry time we say goodbye
Ev'ry time we say goodbye, ev'ry time we say goodbye
My life was empty when you went away
Even the blue skies above had turned gray
But now that you've come back
My dream of life is here to stay
Those little quarrels that tore us apart
Oh, gee, I can see
They were wrong from the start
But now that you've come back
Hush now, dont explain
Just say youll remain
Im glad your back, dont explain
Quiet, dont explain
What is there to gain
Skip that lipstick
Dont explain
You know that I love you
And what endures
All my thoughts of you
For Im so completely yours
Cry to hear folks chatter
And I know you cheat
Right or wrong, dont matter
When youre with me, sweet
Hush now, dont explain
Youre my joy and pain
My lifes yours love
Ruby, My Dear
Hold back that tear
I know he’s gone
Your love has flown
You’re all alone
Oh, I know you cry
There’s no reply
Pain lingers on
It doesn’t go
Cos you’ll say so
One day he came to you
And made the music play
In his way
You said you’d rather die
Than say goodbye
But there’ll come a day
Though he’s away
You’ll sing his song
You’ll carry on
Ruby, My Dear
One day he came to you
And made the music play
In his way
You said you’d rather die
Than say goodbye
But there’ll come a day
Though he’s away
You will sing his song
You’ll carry on
Coffee time, my dreamy friend, it's coffee time
Let's listen to some jazz and rhyme
And have a cup of coffee
Let me show a little coffee house I know
Where all the new Bohemians go
To have a cup of coffee
Greetin' time, the music box is beatin' time
It's good old-fashioned meetin' time
So grab a chair and dig me there
For that's just the place that I'm at
Coffee time, my dreamy friend, it's coffee time
Let's sing this silly little rhyme
And have a cup of coffee
(Orchestral Break)
Greetin' time, the music box is beatin' time
It's good old-fashioned meetin' time
Grab a chair and dig me there
For that's just the place that I'm at
Coffee time, my dreamy friend it's coffee time
Let's sing this silly little rhyme
And have a cup of coffee
And have a cup of coffee
Pack up all my care and woe
Here I go, singing low
Bye bye blackbird
Where somebody waits for me
Sugar's sweet, so is she
Bye bye blackbird
No one here can love and understand me
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed and light the light
I'll arrive late tonight
Blackbird, bye bye
Here I go, singing low
Bye bye blackbird
Where somebody waits for me
Sugar's sweet and so is she
Bye bye blackbird
No one here can love and understand me
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed and light the light
I'll arrive late tonight
My heart is sad and lonely
For I have lost, my one and only
Why haven’t you seen it
I’m all for you
Body and soul
I spend my days in longin’And wondering why
it’s me you’re (ogling)
I tell you I mean it
I’m all for you body and soul
I can’t believe it
It’s hard to conceive it
That you turn away romance
Are you pretending
or is this the ending?
Please, please give me one more chance to prove dear
My life a hell you’re making
You know I’m yours for just the taking
I’d gladly surrender myself to you
Body and soul
My life a wreck you're making
My heart is yours for just the taking.
I'll gladly surrender
I was talking to the whippoorwill
He says you've got a corny trill
Bob White, whatcha gonna swing tonight?
I was talking to the mockingbird
He says you are the worst he's heard
Bob White, whatcha gonna swing tonight?
Even the owl tells me you're foul singing those lullaby notes
Don't be a bring down if you can swing down
Give me those high notes
There's a lotta talk about you, Bob
And they're saying you're off the cob
Fake it, Mister B
Take it, follow me, Bob White
I was talking to the whippoorwill
He says you've got a corny trill
Bob White, whatcha gonna swing tonight?
I was talking to the mockingbird
He says you are the worst he's heard
Bob White, whatcha gonna swing tonight?
Even the owl tells me you're foul singing those lullaby notes
Don't be a bring down if you can swing down
Give me those high notes
There's a lotta talk about you, Bob
And they're saying you're off the cob
Fake it, Mister B
You better take it, follow me, Bob White
We're gonna break it up tonight
You are the promised kiss of springtime
That makes the lonely winter seem long
You are the breathless hush of evening
That trembles on the brink of a lovely song
You are the angel-glow that lights a star
The dearest things that I know are what you are
Some day my happy arms will hold you
And some day I'll know that moment divine
When all the things you are, are mine
(You are the angel-glow that lights a star)
The dearest things that I know are what you are
Some day my happy arms will hold you
And some day I'll know that moment divine
It begins to tell,
'Round midnight, midnight.
I do pretty well, till after sundown,
Suppertime I'm feelin' sad;
But it really gets bad,
'Round midnight.
Memories always start 'round midnight.
Haven't got the heart to stand those memories,
When my heart is still with you,
And ol' midnight knows it, too.
When a quarrel we had needs mending,
Does it mean that our love is ending?
Darlin' I need you, lately I find
You're out of my heart,
And I'm out of my mind.
Let our hearts take wings,
'Round midnight, midnight
Let the angels sing,
For your returning.
Till our love is safe and sound.
And old midnight comes around.
Feelin' sad,
Really gets bad
Round, Round, Round Midnight
Verses by Jon Hendricks on the album Carmen Sings Monk
A pale and lonely moon
Lights the sky in the dark
Before the dawn
I sit here in my room how I sigh
For the day that's come and gone
Another lonely day passes by
And a new day's coming on
At midnight
Tears I've shed today
Will pause waiting until tomorrow
Dreams of what could become close to me
Timidly
There's a brand new day in sight
At that time 'round midnight
Life's a game of chance
And you're one of the minor players
Look for what you love
The day to come harbours some
Let your spirit stop the fight
At that time 'round midnight
Every day's gonna bring some sadness
Every day's gonna bring some gladness
So take what you can of the glad times
Don't measure your pleasure in nickels and dines
You better look back on the day
And you'll know when you've been unhappy
Fears don't chased away just mighty might have the day
Let your eyes put out their light
At that time round midnight
I'll think no more about today
For in a while this old day will be yesterday
Alone at midnight here in my room
I sit here in the gloom
And let my dreams take flight
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- When I Was Young
- In Your Own Sweet Way
- Too Young for Growing Old
- Ode to a Cowboy
- There'll Be No Tomorrow
- Melanctha
- It's a Raggy Waltz
- Oh So Blue
- Lord, Lord
- Travellin' Blues
- Take Five
- Easy as You Go
- In Love in Vain
- Where Did It Go? (Manha De Carnaval)
- The Music That Makes Me Dance
- Because You're Mine
- Too Good
- Once Upon a Summertime
- The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
- Cloudy Morning
- Blame It on My Youth
- Winter in May
- My Reverie
- And I Love Him (And I Love Her)
- Alfie
- Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
- Who Can I Turn To
- He Loves Me
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- Gentleman Friend
- Haven't We Met
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream
- Limehouse Blues
- I'm Foolin' Myself
- Love Is a Night Time Thing
- Fools and Lovers
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Imagination
- How Could I Settle for Less
- Exactly Like You
- Masquerade
- All the Things You Are
- I Fall in Love Too Easily
- Livin'
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
- Everything a Good Man Needs
- Body and Soul
- Them Their Eyes
- My Funny Valentine
- No More Blues
- Everything Happens to Me
- Upside Down
- Take Five
- Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
- New York State of Mind
- Don't Misunderstand
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- I Can't Escape From You
- Guess Who I Saw Today
- My Funny Valentine
- The Little Things That Mean So Much
- I'm Through With Love
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- East of the Sun
- Exactly Like You
- All My Life
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Dream of Life
- Perdido
- I'll See You Again
- Zigeuner
- Some Day I'll Find You
- A Room With a View
- World Weary
- I Can't Do Anything at All
- Mad About the Boy
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- I'll Follow My Secret Heart
- If Love Were All
- Why Does Love Get in the Way?
- Never Again
- Invitation
- Moonray
- Happy to Make Your Aquaintance
- Tea for Two
- They Didn't Believe Me
- You're the Top
- Cheek to Cheek
- Baby It's Cold Outside
- People Will Say We're in Love
- There's a Small Hotel
- A Fine Romance
- The Things We Did Last Summer
- Two Sleepy People
- Who Cares
- I Go for You
- Summertime
- A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
- My Man's Gone Now
- I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- I Loves You, Porgy
- There's a Boat Dat's Leavin Soon for New York
- Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
- Oh, Lawd, I'm on My Way
- By Myself
- The Thrill Is Gone
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- Do You Know Why?
- My Romance
- Isn't It Romantic
- If Love Is Good to Me
- When I Fall in Love
- Please Be Kind
- He Was Too Good to Me
- Angel Eyes
- Something I Dreamed Last Night
- As Time Goes By
- I Could Have Told You So
- More Than You Know
- I Can't Escape From You
- Try a Little Tenderness
- The Last Time for Love
- Supper Time
- Do You Know Why?
- But Not for Me
- Please Be Kind
- Fallling in Love With You
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Speak Low
- Midnight Sun
- I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
- How Little We Know
- Skylark
- My Man's Gone Now
- Comes Love
- All the Things You Are
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Do You Know Why?
- Bye-Bye, Blackbird
- Any Old Time
- That Old Devil Moon
- I'm Glad There Is You
- Suivez le chef
- Work Song
- Blues in My Heart
- Just the Way You Are
- Rock Rhythm
- It Don't Mean a Thing
- Them There Eyes
- Body and Soul
- Bowling Green
- 't Is Autumn
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Jungle Trap
- The End of a Beautiful Friendship
- Backbone
- For Jammers Only
- When Sunny Gets Blue
- How Did He Look
- Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
- The Meaning of the Blues
- If You Could Love Me
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
- Second Chance
- If You Could See Me Now
- Here's That Rainy Day
- I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life
- Ghost of Yesterday
- I'm Lost
- Come Sunday
- Black Magic
- Last Winter
- New York State of Mind
- Underneaath the Apple Tree
- Thou Swell
- Send in the Clowns
- I Just Can't Wait to See You
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- If I Were a Bell
- My Foolish Heart
- Secret Love
- Suddenly
- I'm Glad There Is You
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- This Masquerade
- Yesterdays
- 'Round Midnight
- How I Wish
- Listen to Monk
- I Never Felt This Way Before
- New York State of Mind
- The Sound of Silence
- I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
- MacArthur Park
- Watch What Happens
- Stardust
- Don't Go Away
- Gloomy Sunday
- I Sold My Heart to the Junkman
- Poor Butterfly
- My Heart Reminds Me
- The Folks Who Live on the Hill
- Can You Tell
- I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco
- Elusive Butterfly
- Day by Day
- When You Get Around to Me
- Walking Happy
- My Very Own Person
- Ask Any Woman
- Boy, Do I Have a Surprise for You
- Loads of Love
- I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do
- Wonder Why
- It Takes a Whole Lot of Human Feeling
- I Fall in Love Too Easily
- Hey John
- Inside a Silent Tear
- Imagination
- Straighten Up and Fly Right
- Where Are the Words
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- The Right to Love
- All the Things You Are
- Body and Soul
- Bowling Green
- Rock Rhythm
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- The End of a Beautiful Friendship
- 'Tis Autumn
- Suivez Le Chef
- Backbone
- Them There Eyes
- For Jammers Only
- Black Magic
- Superwoman
- I Concentrate on You
- New York State of Mind
- Underneath the Apple Tree
- Thou Swell
- Send in the Clowns
- I Just Can't Wait to See You
- How Long Has This Been Going On
- If I Were a Bell
- My Foolish Heart
- Secret Love
- I Could Write a Book
- Body and Soul
- Thou Swell
- 'round Midnight
- A Foggy Day in London Town
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- Moonlight in Vermont
- Day in, Day Out
- Loverman
- Stardust
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Last Night When We Were Young
- Speak Low
- But Beautiful
- If You'd Stay the Way I Dream About You
- Midnight Sun
- My Future Just Passed
- Yesterdays
- We'll Be Together Again
- I'm a Dreamer
- Good Morning, Heartache
- Star Eyes
- (I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance (With You)
- Blue Moon
- My Foolish Heart
- I Was Doing All Right
- Summer Is Gone
- I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
- Nowhere
- Until the Real Thing Comes Along
- Lush Life
- Even If It Breaks My Heart
- Laughing Boy
- Lilacs in the Rain
- All This Could Lead to Love
- Intro (feat. Rhonda Hamilton)
- Laughing at Life
- You Ain't Gonna
- Bother Me No More
- Yesterdays
- My Old Flame
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Billie's Blues
- Travelin' Light
- Medley: If You Were Mine / It's Like Reaching for The Moon
- I'm Painting the Town Red
- You've Changed
- Mean to Me
- Them There Eyes
- Yesterdays
- I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)
- Strange Fruit
- Miss Brown to You
- My Man
- I Cried for You (Now Its Your Turn to Cry Over Me)
- Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)
- Trav'Lin' Light
- Some Other Springs
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do
- God Bless the Child
- If the Moon Turns Green
- The Christmas Song
- What's New?
- Stolen Moments
- But Beautiful
- Am I Blue?
- Glad to Be Unhappy / Where or When
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Isn't It Romantic?
- Sophisticated Lady
- It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
- I Hear Music
- Love Dance
- That Old Devil Moon
- I Can't Escape From You
- Guess Who I Saw Today
- My Funny Valentine
- The Little Things Mean So Much
- I'm Thru With Love
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
- Exactly Like You
- All My Life
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Dream of Life
- Perdido (Last)
- Intro
- Miss Brown to You
- Good Morning Heartache
- I'm Gonna Lock My Heart and Throw Away the Key
- Fine and Mellow
- Them There Eyes
- Lover Man
- I Cried for You (Now It's Your Turn to Cry Over Me)
- God Bless the Child
- I Hear Music
- I'm Pulling Through
- Don't Explain
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do
- If You Could See Me Now
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- I'm Gonna Lock My Heart and Throw Away the Key
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Poor Butterfly
- Evergreen
- Sunday
- Weaver of Dreams
- Get Out of Town
- With One More Look at You
- Miss Brown
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Don't Explain
- Woman Talk
- Kick Off Your Shoes
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Sweetest Sounds
- Where Would You Be Without Me
- Feeling Good
- Run Run Run
- No More
- Look at That Face
- I Wish I Were in Love Again
- You Better Go Now
- Love for Sale
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Miss Brown to You
- Perdido
- Too Close for Comfort
- Midnight Sun
- Travelin' Light
- Love Is Here to Stay
- Just One of Those Things
- Something to Live For
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- This Will Make You Laugh
- Love Is Here to Stay
- I Can't Get Started With You
- Supper Time
- My One and Only Love
- I'll Remember April
- Yardbird Suite
- A Sleepin' Bee
- Three Little Words
- Comes Love
- I See Your Face Before Me
- It's Love
- How Little We Know
- You Leave Me Breathless
- That's for Me
- Falling in Love With Love
- Love Is a Simple Thing
- Elusive Butterfly
- Midnight Sun
- For Once in My Life
- Yesterday
- Spread to All
- The Right to Love
- If You Never Fall in Love With Me
- I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco
- Introduction
- Why Shouldn't I
- I Thought About You
- The Sound of Silence
- Away, Away, Away
- Did I Ever Love
- On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
- Sweet Pumpkin
- Introduction
- No More Blues
- Miss Otis Regrets
- Satin Doll
- Never Let Me Go
- My Ship
- Never Will I Marry
- September in the Rain
- Satin Doll
- At Long Last Love
- If the Moon Turns Green
- Day by Day
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Medley: Easy Living, the Days of Wine and Roses, It's Impossible
- Sunday
- A Song for You
- I Cried for You
- Behind the Face
- The Ballad of Thelonius Monk
- There's No Such Thing as Love
- They Long to Be Close to You
- Three Little Words
- Mr. Ugly
- It's Like Reaching for the Moon
- I Thought About You
- Skylark
- Bob White
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
- Mister Meadowlark
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Flamingo
- The Eagle and Me
- Baltimore Oriole
- When the Red, Red Robin Come Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along
- Chicken Today and Feathers Tomorrow
- When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano
- His Eye Is on the Sparrow
- That Old Black Magic
- Superwoman
- New York State Of Mind
- Underneath The Apple Tree
- Thou Swell
- Send In The Clowns
- I Just Can't Wait
- How Long Has This Been Going On
- If I Were A Bell
- My Foolish Heart
- Secret Love
- Tulip or Turnip
- Old Devil Moon
- Have You Met Miss Jones?
- Love Me Tender
- I Hear Music
- This Is Always
- Body and Soul
- Prelude to a Kiss
- Mean to Me
- Any Old Time
- It Could Happen to You
- I'm Glad There's You
- Billie's Blues
- You Know Who You Are
- Just a Little Lovin'
- Paint Your Pretty Picture With a Song
- Pardon Me (Haven't We Met)
- My Old Flame
- Sunday
- I Have the Feeling, I've Been Here Before
- Ballad of Theolonius Monk
- Tain't Nobody's Business
- Band Introduction
- Like a Lover
- Guess Who I Saw Today
- For Once in My Life
- Play-Off
- Last Night When We Were Young
- Midnight Sun
- Yesterdays
- Good Morning Heartache
- Mr. Meadowlark
- Skylark
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Flamingo
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
- When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano
- His Eye Is on the Sparrow
- The Eagle and Me
- When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along
- Bob White (Watcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
- Baltimore Oriole
- Chicken Today and Feathers Tomorrow
- Speak Low (When You Speak Love)
- But Beautiful
- If You'd Stay the Way I Dream About You
- My Future Just Passed
- We'll Be Together Again
- I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All
- Star Eyes
- I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
- Can't Hide Love
- The Man I Love
- Only Women Bleed
- I Wish You Well
- All by Myself
- Music
- Lost Up in Loving You
- You're Everything
- Would You Believe
- A Child Is Born
- I'm Coming Home
- Burst in With the Dawn
- Come in From the Rain
- I Won't Last a Day Without You
- Everything Must Change
- I'd Rather Leave When I'm in Love
- The Masquerade Is Over
- Mr. Magic
- New York State of Mind
- For Once in My Life
- Don't Talk
- Until It's Time for You to Go
- Got to Get You Into My Life
- Our Song
- Come Live With Me
- The Look of Love
- It's Not Going That Way
- I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
- Worlds of Time
- Flying
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
- Fine and Mellow
- These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
- Black and Blue
- One More Chance
- Untill the Real Thing Comes Along
- My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Don't Explain
- Woman Talk
- Kick Off Your Shoes
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- The Sweetest Sounds
- Where Would You Be Without Me
- Feelin' Good
- Run Run Run
- No More
- Look at That Face
- I Wish I Were in Love Again
- Like a Lover
- I Have the Feeling I've Been Here Before
- The Man I Love
- Would You Believe
- A Child Is Born
- Star Eyes
- Miss Otis Regrets
- Too Close for Comfort
- Old Folks
- Dindi
- T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
- Get It Straight (live)
- Dear Ruby
- It's Over Now
- Monkery's the Blues
- You Know Who
- Little Butterfly
- Listen to Monk
- How I Wish...
- Man, That Was a Dream
- 'Round Midnight
- Still We Dream
- Suddenly (live)
- Looking Back
- Suddenly
- Get It Straight
- In Walked Bud
- Sunday
- For All We Know
- I Have the Feeling I've Been Here Before
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- A Song for You
- Miss Brown to You
- Dream of Life
- What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?
- If the Moon Turns Green
- You're a Weaver of Dreams
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- My Funny Valentine
- Flamingo
- You Took Advantage of Me
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- Love Is a Simple Thing
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Yesterdays
- I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
- My Man's Gone Now
- Speak Low
- East of the Sun (West of the Moon)
- Exactly Like You
- Something to Live For
- I'm Glad There Is You
- How Little We Know
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Until the Real Thing Comes Along
- Mad About the Boy
- Why Does Love Get in the Way
- Stardust
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Lush Life
- Laughing Boy
- I'll Follow My Secret Heart
- I Can't Get Started
- If Love Were All
- Day by Day
- By Myself
- How Long Has This Been Going On
- My Romance
- When I Fall In Love
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- I'm Glad There Is You
- A Sleepin' Bee
- A Fine Romance
- I'll Remember April
- Love Is Here To Stay
- Supper TIme
- Last Night Whe We Were Young
- Speak Low (When You Speak To Me)
- Lush Life
- The Party's Over
- They All Laughed
- Black Magic
- Superwoman
- I Concentrate on You
- New York State of Mind
- Underneath the Apple Tree
- Thou Swell
- Send in the Clowns
- I Just Can't Wait to See You
- How Long Has This Been Going On
- If I Were a Bell
- My Foolish Heart
- Poor Butterfly
- I've Got the World on a String
- Misty
- Wonder Why
- Send in the Clowns
- Black Coffee
- Tenderly
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- I Will Say Goodbye
- The Lamp Is Low
- It's Magic
- Dedicated to You
- I'll Be Seeing You
- Sarah
- Introduction
- Satin Doll
- At Long Last Love
- If the Moon Turns Green
- Day by Day
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Introduction
- Medley: Easy Living / Days of Wine and Roses / It's Impossible
- Sunday
- Musical Outro
- Introduction
- A Song for You
- I Cried for You
- Musical Outro
- Introduction
- Behind the Face
- Introduction
- The Ballad of Thelonious Monk
- There's No Such Thing as Love
- Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
- Who Can I Turn To?
- The Music That Makes Me Dance
- Gentleman Friend
- Alfie
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Friend
- Love Is a Night Time Thing
- Because You're Mine
- Cloudy Morning
- Limehouse Blues
- Blame It on My Youth
- Where Did It Go?
- Once Upon a Summertime
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- Foolin' Myself
- I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
- These Foolish Things Remind Me of You
- Come in Out of the Rain
- The Visit
- More Than You Know
- It Will Have to Do (Until the Real Thing Comes Along)
- You're Looking at Me
- Too Late Now
- If I Had You
- Besame Mucho
- If I Should Lose You
- Fine and Mellow
Born: 1920-04-08
Died: 1994-11-10
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Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal-1988 (full concert)
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- Duration: 89:06
- Updated: 19 May 2013
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
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The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
Carmen McRae - The Very Thought of you
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- Duration: 2:49
- Updated: 17 May 2013
Must See....! The lovely Carmen Beautiful Song.
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Must See....! The lovely Carmen Beautiful Song.
- published: 20 Feb 2008
- views: 207645
- author: samarkaaan
Carmen McRae Round Midnight
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- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 25 May 2013
Carmen McRae vocals - Norman Simmons piano - Victor Sproles bass - Walter Perkins drums 1962.
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Carmen McRae vocals - Norman Simmons piano - Victor Sproles bass - Walter Perkins drums 1962.
- published: 04 Feb 2010
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- author: JATLOZ
CARMEN MCRAE sings "I'm Glad There is You" 1979
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- Duration: 4:17
- Updated: 13 May 2013
Carmen McRae singing one of her favorites in 1979, I'm Glad There is You.
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Carmen McRae singing one of her favorites in 1979, I'm Glad There is You.
- published: 28 Jun 2007
- author: NYCguys2007
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads, Full Album [1958]
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- Duration: 40:13
- Updated: 11 May 2013
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads 1958 - Kapp Records Orchestra directed by Frank Hunter The Trio: Don Abney, Piano / Charles Smith, Drums / Joe Benjamin, Bass ...
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Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads 1958 - Kapp Records Orchestra directed by Frank Hunter The Trio: Don Abney, Piano / Charles Smith, Drums / Joe Benjamin, Bass ...
- published: 28 Mar 2013
- views: 366
- author: Kurt Clark
New York State of Mind / Carmen McRae
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- Duration: 5:27
- Updated: 13 May 2013
New York State of Mind by Carmen McRae.
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CARMEN MCRAE - That Old Black Magic
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- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 18 May 2013
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
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From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 37049
- author: vladimirsmartins
Nina Simone, Esther Phillips, Carmen McRae, Maxine Weldon sing Billie Holiday finale.
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- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 23 May 2013
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Carmen McRae - Body & Soul
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- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 22 May 2013
Excellent performance Mt.FUJI Jazz Fes in Japan, 1986.8.30 personnel: Carmen McRae(vo) Eric Gunnison(p) Buster Williams(b) Billy Higgins(ds) still photos : Y...
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Excellent performance Mt.FUJI Jazz Fes in Japan, 1986.8.30 personnel: Carmen McRae(vo) Eric Gunnison(p) Buster Williams(b) Billy Higgins(ds) still photos : Y...
- published: 26 Jan 2006
- views: 193400
- author: geepee さんのチャンネル
CARMEN MCRAE - No More Blues
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- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 20 May 2013
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
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From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 131893
- author: vladimirsmartins
Carmen Mcrae - When I Fall in Love (1959)
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- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 20 May 2013
Carmen McRae - When I Fall in Love (1959) - The Overjazz Channel aims to offer only the best recordings of the begining era of modern music. Re-discover geni...
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Carmen McRae - When I Fall in Love (1959) - The Overjazz Channel aims to offer only the best recordings of the begining era of modern music. Re-discover geni...
- published: 17 Sep 2012
- views: 16247
- author: overjazzrecords
Carmen McRae - STARDUST
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- Duration: 4:19
- Updated: 16 May 2013
from the album LIVE AT THE FLAMINGO (1962)
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Carmen Mcrae Live in Tokyo, Japan, 1986.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 80:58
- Updated: 16 May 2013
The One and Only Carmen Mcrae live in Tokyo, Japan 1986.
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The One and Only Carmen Mcrae live in Tokyo, Japan 1986.
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 1103
- author: nw5alive
Carmen McRae Love For Sale
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- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 17 May 2013
Carmen McRae vocals - Norman Simmons piano - Victor Sproles bass - Walter Perkins drums 1962.
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Carmen McRae vocals - Norman Simmons piano - Victor Sproles bass - Walter Perkins drums 1962.
- published: 04 Feb 2010
- views: 39396
- author: JATLOZ
Carmen MCrae - Guess Who I Saw Today, Gonna Look My Heart
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- Duration: 6:19
- Updated: 16 May 2013
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
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Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
- published: 26 Oct 2008
- author: cminor7add9th
Carmen McRae 1988 Montreal
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- Duration: 7:57
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
17 It's Like Reaching for the Moon 18 I Only Have Eyes for You.
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17 It's Like Reaching for the Moon 18 I Only Have Eyes for You.
- published: 12 Feb 2007
- author: diegodobini2
Carmen McRae Mr Magic
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- Duration: 14:19
- Updated: 21 May 2013
1980 album I'm Coming Home Again Grover Washington - soprano sax Hubert Laws - flute and alto flute Mario Sprouse - electric piano Buster Williams - bass.
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1980 album I'm Coming Home Again Grover Washington - soprano sax Hubert Laws - flute and alto flute Mario Sprouse - electric piano Buster Williams - bass.
- published: 14 Dec 2010
- views: 11362
- author: jazzysclassicjazz
Carmen McRae "The Man I Love"
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- Duration: 4:35
- Updated: 03 May 2013
Recorded at a Club-date in Italy. Shame that the piano is soooo... out of tune.
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Recorded at a Club-date in Italy. Shame that the piano is soooo... out of tune.
- published: 13 Mar 2009
- author: icedrum2
Carmen McRae - On Green Dolphin Street
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 02 May 2013
Carmen McRae at the 1980 North Sea Jazz Festival.
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Carmen McRae - If You Never Fall In Love With Me
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:42
- Updated: 18 May 2013
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Carmen McRae - Just A Little Loving (Live At Ratso's)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:26
- Updated: 07 May 2013
Carmen McRae live performance from Ratso's jazz club in Chicago in 1976.
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Carmen McRae live performance from Ratso's jazz club in Chicago in 1976.
- published: 04 Feb 2012
- author: Ariana Madruga
Carmen McRae - Blame It On My Youth
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- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 17 May 2013
Recorded by Carmen McRae in 1964 "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as cri...
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Recorded by Carmen McRae in 1964 "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as cri...
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 23983
- author: robgina62
Clarke-Boland Big Band w. Carmen Mcrae
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 39:11
- Updated: 15 May 2013
The whole show from 1968.
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Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal-1988 (full concert)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 89:06
- Updated: 19 May 2013
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
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The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- views: 2748
- author: nw5alive
Carmen Mcrae Live in Tokyo, Japan, 1986.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 80:58
- Updated: 16 May 2013
The One and Only Carmen Mcrae live in Tokyo, Japan 1986.
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The One and Only Carmen Mcrae live in Tokyo, Japan 1986.
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 1103
- author: nw5alive
CARMEN MCRAE - That Old Black Magic
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 18 May 2013
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
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From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 37049
- author: vladimirsmartins
Carmen McRae - Just A Little Loving (Live At Ratso's)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:26
- Updated: 07 May 2013
Carmen McRae live performance from Ratso's jazz club in Chicago in 1976.
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Carmen McRae live performance from Ratso's jazz club in Chicago in 1976.
- published: 04 Feb 2012
- author: Ariana Madruga
Carmen mcRae sings Billie Holiday live !
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:55
- Updated: 14 Apr 2013
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Carmen McRae Sunday (Live) (HQ)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 28 Mar 2013
1963 album Live at Sugar Hill, San Francisco.
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1963 album Live at Sugar Hill, San Francisco.
- published: 30 Apr 2012
- views: 887
- author: jazzysclassicjazz
CARMEN MCRAE - No More Blues
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- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 20 May 2013
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
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From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 131893
- author: vladimirsmartins
Carmen MCrae - I Concentrate On You
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- Duration: 4:21
- Updated: 08 Apr 2013
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
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Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
- published: 26 Oct 2008
- views: 13694
- author: cminor7add9th
Carmen MCrae - Guess Who I Saw Today, Gonna Look My Heart
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:19
- Updated: 16 May 2013
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
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Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
- published: 26 Oct 2008
- author: cminor7add9th
CARMEN MCRAE - Getting Some Fun Out Of Life
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- Duration: 2:11
- Updated: 10 Apr 2013
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
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From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 9701
- author: vladimirsmartins
Carmen MCrae - I'm in The Mood For Love
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- Duration: 8:19
- Updated: 03 May 2013
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
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Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
- published: 26 Oct 2008
- views: 26499
- author: cminor7add9th
Carmen McRae Something To Live For (HQ)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:02
- Updated: 05 May 2013
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, ...
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"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, ...
- published: 19 Oct 2012
- views: 372
- author: jazzyscookie
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal 1988 - Old Devil Moon
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 24 Apr 2013
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CARMEN MCRAE - Yesterdays
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- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 10 May 2013
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
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From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 15789
- author: vladimirsmartins
CARMEN MCRAE - My foolish heart (Recorded Live at Bubba's)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:16
- Updated: 24 May 2013
Recorded Live at Bubba's...
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Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal 1988 - UP SIDE DOWN (Flor de Lis - Djavan)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:56
- Updated: 22 Apr 2013
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Carmen McRae It Never Entered My Mind (Live) (HQ)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 09 May 2013
1963 album Live at Sugar Hill, San Francisco.
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CARMEN MCRAE - CLOSE TO YOU
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- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 07 May 2013
1971 Album : The Great American Songbook Music : Burt Bacharach Lyrics : Hal David Paintings by Henri Matisse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DeY-5aahcA&list...;
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1971 Album : The Great American Songbook Music : Burt Bacharach Lyrics : Hal David Paintings by Henri Matisse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DeY-5aahcA&list...;
- published: 27 Jul 2012
- views: 2649
- author: atubeeee1
Carmen Mcrae - When I Fall in Love (1959)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 20 May 2013
Carmen McRae - When I Fall in Love (1959) - The Overjazz Channel aims to offer only the best recordings of the begining era of modern music. Re-discover geni...
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Carmen McRae - When I Fall in Love (1959) - The Overjazz Channel aims to offer only the best recordings of the begining era of modern music. Re-discover geni...
- published: 17 Sep 2012
- views: 16247
- author: overjazzrecords
Carmen McRae The Folks Who Live On The Hill
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 09 Apr 2013
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, ...
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"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, ...
- published: 03 Apr 2013
- views: 61
- author: jazzyscookie
Carmen McRae - Something To Live For
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 29 Mar 2013
Beautiful song by Carmen McRae one of the most famous american jazz singer, pianist and actress Download it now on iTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/it/album/v...
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Beautiful song by Carmen McRae one of the most famous american jazz singer, pianist and actress Download it now on iTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/it/album/v...
- published: 11 Feb 2013
- views: 33
- author: AllLegendsOfMusic
Carmen McRae-More Than You Know (Tokyo Live 1973)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:28
- Updated: 25 Feb 2013
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Carmen McRae ft. Joe Pass - Sunday (live)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:12
- Updated: 02 Apr 2013
The Great American Songbook (1972) - Track 8 I love this loose swinging live set.. Carmen is backed by a fantastic band, which prominently features Joe. Thro...
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The Great American Songbook (1972) - Track 8 I love this loose swinging live set.. Carmen is backed by a fantastic band, which prominently features Joe. Thro...
- published: 09 Nov 2012
- views: 99
- author: Joe Pass
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Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal-1988 (full concert)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 89:06
- Updated: 19 May 2013
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
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The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- views: 2748
- author: nw5alive
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads, Full Album [1958]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 40:13
- Updated: 11 May 2013
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads 1958 - Kapp Records Orchestra directed by Frank Hunter The Trio: Don Abney, Piano / Charles Smith, Drums / Joe Benjamin, Bass ...
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Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads 1958 - Kapp Records Orchestra directed by Frank Hunter The Trio: Don Abney, Piano / Charles Smith, Drums / Joe Benjamin, Bass ...
- published: 28 Mar 2013
- views: 366
- author: Kurt Clark
Carmen Mcrae Live in Tokyo, Japan, 1986.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 80:58
- Updated: 16 May 2013
The One and Only Carmen Mcrae live in Tokyo, Japan 1986.
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The One and Only Carmen Mcrae live in Tokyo, Japan 1986.
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 1103
- author: nw5alive
Clarke-Boland Big Band w. Carmen Mcrae
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 39:11
- Updated: 15 May 2013
The whole show from 1968.
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The Ladies Sing Jazz 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 67:52
- Updated: 25 May 2013
Volume 2 of this DVD collection features the most important and influential jazz vocalists in the history of the idiom, including such legendary artists as E...
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Volume 2 of this DVD collection features the most important and influential jazz vocalists in the history of the idiom, including such legendary artists as E...
- published: 16 Feb 2013
- views: 1254
- author: Eduardo Gómez
Jazz Legends Live! Part 9
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 48:01
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
Jazz Legends Live! is a series of live performances from contemporary Jazz artists recorded all over the world in a variety of venues. Set Play List: Gary Bu...
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Jazz Legends Live! is a series of live performances from contemporary Jazz artists recorded all over the world in a variety of venues. Set Play List: Gary Bu...
- published: 17 Jun 2011
- views: 852
- author: MVDmusicvideo
Live at the Upper West Side Apple Store NYC Lynette Washington/Dennis Bell Jazz NY.m4v
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:00
- Updated: 05 Apr 2012
Lynette Washington & Dennis Bell Jazz NY featuring Alex Blake-Bass, Victor Jones-Drums November 28,2011 LIVE at the Upper West Side Apple Store debuting thei...
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Lynette Washington & Dennis Bell Jazz NY featuring Alex Blake-Bass, Victor Jones-Drums November 28,2011 LIVE at the Upper West Side Apple Store debuting thei...
- published: 29 Jan 2012
- author: Dennis Bell
Jazz Mix Of Thanks , ( Takora's EDIT ) #5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 61:35
- Updated: 04 May 2013
Jazz Mix #5 1 Ella Fitzgerald - Happy Blues 2 Mary Stallings - Lullaby Of The Leaves 3 Jimmy Scott - I'll Close my Eyes 4 Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Moon In...
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Jazz Mix #5 1 Ella Fitzgerald - Happy Blues 2 Mary Stallings - Lullaby Of The Leaves 3 Jimmy Scott - I'll Close my Eyes 4 Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Moon In...
- published: 19 Aug 2012
- views: 17795
- author: nmsheronms
Kozzanostra - Champagne For Everyone (Chill-Jazz Mix)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 63:11
- Updated: 14 May 2013
Champagne For Everyone (Chill-Jazz Mix) Track list: Euphonic Traveller - Le Tour Eiffel Phonique ft. Ruben - Amy's Heart Carmen McRae ft. Dave Brubeck Quarte...
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Champagne For Everyone (Chill-Jazz Mix) Track list: Euphonic Traveller - Le Tour Eiffel Phonique ft. Ruben - Amy's Heart Carmen McRae ft. Dave Brubeck Quarte...
- published: 22 Nov 2012
- views: 319
- author: Kozzanostra Wski
Mark Whitfield Jazz guitarist & Roland Guerin of Baton Rouge-1990's-LIVE!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:18
- Updated: 21 May 2013
Mark Whitfield Jazz guitarist & Roland Guerin-1990's Mark Whitfield (1967) is an American hard bop and soul-jazz guitarist born in Syosset, New York, probabl...
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Mark Whitfield Jazz guitarist & Roland Guerin-1990's Mark Whitfield (1967) is an American hard bop and soul-jazz guitarist born in Syosset, New York, probabl...
- published: 23 Jan 2013
- views: 1476
- author: bacnthaday's channel
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
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- Duration: 97:18
- Updated: 21 May 2013
This compelling story centers on Jo Jo Dancer (Richard Pryor), a well-known comedian at the peak of his popularity, and the bottom rung of his self-esteem. Jo Jo has it all - stardom, movie roles, record deals. But the price he pays for fame and fortune is too great. After buckling under the pressures of success and suffering a life-threatening accident, Jo Jo examines his life over the past four decades - from his upbringing in a brothel, to performances.
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This compelling story centers on Jo Jo Dancer (Richard Pryor), a well-known comedian at the peak of his popularity, and the bottom rung of his self-esteem. Jo Jo has it all - stardom, movie roles, record deals. But the price he pays for fame and fortune is too great. After buckling under the pressures of success and suffering a life-threatening accident, Jo Jo examines his life over the past four decades - from his upbringing in a brothel, to performances.
- published: 13 Sep 2011
- views: 478
- author: Crackle Movies & Television
Buster Williams "Something more" Quartet - Catania Jazz 13 marzo 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 67:20
- Updated: 24 May 2013
Formazione: Buster Williams -- contrabbasso Mark Gross -- sax alto & soprano Patrice Rushen -- piano Michael Baker -- batteria Nato nel New Jersey nel 1942, ...
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Formazione: Buster Williams -- contrabbasso Mark Gross -- sax alto & soprano Patrice Rushen -- piano Michael Baker -- batteria Nato nel New Jersey nel 1942, ...
- published: 30 Oct 2012
- views: 256
- author: Francesco Restuccia
Betty Carter Live at The Montreal Jazz Festival 1982- (full concert)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 57:33
- Updated: 17 May 2013
The Incredible Betty Carter Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival (1982)
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The Incredible Betty Carter Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival (1982)
- published: 29 Jan 2013
- views: 2550
- author: nw5alive
Ella Fitzgerld Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival 1977.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 47:28
- Updated: 10 May 2013
Ella Fitzgerald and the Tommy Flanagan Trio Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1977)
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Ella Fitzgerald and the Tommy Flanagan Trio Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1977)
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- author: nw5alive
Mark Murphy Appearing on The Ad Lib TV Show 1981 (Part 1)
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- Duration: 26:09
- Updated: 24 Apr 2013
Mark Murphy Appearing on The Ad Lib TV Show 1981 (Part 1)
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Mark Murphy Appearing on The Ad Lib TV Show 1981 (Part 1)
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 507
- author: nw5alive
Kenny Kirkland & Carmen Landy / Night and Day.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 45:44
- Updated: 17 May 2013
1) Night & Day 2) Everything Must Change 3) Easy To Love 4) My Old Flame 5) Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 6) Lullaby Of Birdland 7) More Than You Know 8) ...
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1) Night & Day 2) Everything Must Change 3) Easy To Love 4) My Old Flame 5) Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 6) Lullaby Of Birdland 7) More Than You Know 8) ...
- published: 15 Dec 2012
- views: 497
- author: coro canta
Betty Carter Live at The Hamburg Jazz Festival 1993. (Full Concert)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 108:32
- Updated: 22 May 2013
The incredible Betty Carter Live at The Hamburg Jazz Festival, October 1993 with Geri Allen on piano, Dave Holland on Bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums.
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The incredible Betty Carter Live at The Hamburg Jazz Festival, October 1993 with Geri Allen on piano, Dave Holland on Bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums.
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- views: 2531
- author: nw5alive
The Very Thought Of You + More Music For Relaxation From An Old Reader's Digest Album!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:30
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU (Ray Noble) Recorded by: Ray Anthony; Chet Baker; Count Basie; BBC Big Band; Tony Bennett; Earl Bostic; Al Bowlly; Charlie Byrd; Benn...
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THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU (Ray Noble) Recorded by: Ray Anthony; Chet Baker; Count Basie; BBC Big Band; Tony Bennett; Earl Bostic; Al Bowlly; Charlie Byrd; Benn...
- published: 24 Nov 2012
- views: 503
- author: EasyListeningMusic4u
Jazz Legends Live! Part 6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 48:38
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
Jazz Legends Live! is a series of live performances from contemporary jazz artists recorded all over the world in a variety of venues - intimate American jaz...
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Jazz Legends Live! is a series of live performances from contemporary jazz artists recorded all over the world in a variety of venues - intimate American jaz...
- published: 17 Jun 2011
- views: 3246
- author: MVDmusicvideo
Chet Baker & Bill Evans, The Complete Legendary Sessions
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- Duration: 76:37
- Updated: 20 May 2013
Chet Baker & Bill Evans 1959 The complete legendary sessions (2010) 01. Alone Together 02. How High The Moon 03. It Never Entered My Mind 04. 'Tis Autumn 05....
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Chet Baker & Bill Evans 1959 The complete legendary sessions (2010) 01. Alone Together 02. How High The Moon 03. It Never Entered My Mind 04. 'Tis Autumn 05....
- published: 31 Mar 2013
- views: 398
- author: ajo tienno
MJ COLE MIX 21/08/2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 57:16
- Updated: 20 May 2013
DOWNLOAD http://www.4shared.com/mp3/zvirIom5/00_-_MJ_COLE_MIX.html? MJ COLE MIX 1. Goldie - Believe (MJ Cole Vocal Remix) 2. 4 vini feat Elizabeth Troy - For...
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DOWNLOAD http://www.4shared.com/mp3/zvirIom5/00_-_MJ_COLE_MIX.html? MJ COLE MIX 1. Goldie - Believe (MJ Cole Vocal Remix) 2. 4 vini feat Elizabeth Troy - For...
- published: 21 Aug 2011
- views: 9860
- author: Jason Rooney
Jazz romântico.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 32:03
- Updated: 04 Apr 2013
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Carmen McRae, Dinah Washington,
http://wn.com/Jazz_românticowmv
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Carmen McRae, Dinah Washington,
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 547
- author: George Leite
SAHM Episode The Hunt The Derby The Loss
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 30:42
- Updated: 22 Mar 2013
An Easter Egg Hunt A Pinewood Derby and a visit with MEG of course! JFXDIII STUDIO.
http://wn.com/SAHM_Episode_The_Hunt_The_Derby_The_Loss
An Easter Egg Hunt A Pinewood Derby and a visit with MEG of course! JFXDIII STUDIO.
- published: 22 Mar 2013
- views: 1
- author: jfxd1234
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Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal-1988 (full concert)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 89:06
- Updated: 19 May 2013
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
http://wn.com/Carmen_Mcrae_Live_in_Montreal-1988_full_concert
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- views: 2748
- author: nw5alive
Carmen McRae - The Very Thought of you
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:49
- Updated: 17 May 2013
Must See....! The lovely Carmen Beautiful Song.
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_The_Very_Thought_of_you
Must See....! The lovely Carmen Beautiful Song.
- published: 20 Feb 2008
- views: 207645
- author: samarkaaan
Carmen McRae Round Midnight
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 25 May 2013
Carmen McRae vocals - Norman Simmons piano - Victor Sproles bass - Walter Perkins drums 1962.
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_Round_Midnight
Carmen McRae vocals - Norman Simmons piano - Victor Sproles bass - Walter Perkins drums 1962.
- published: 04 Feb 2010
- views: 91723
- author: JATLOZ
CARMEN MCRAE sings "I'm Glad There is You" 1979
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:17
- Updated: 13 May 2013
Carmen McRae singing one of her favorites in 1979, I'm Glad There is You.
http://wn.com/CARMEN_MCRAE_sings_I'm_Glad_There_is_You_1979
Carmen McRae singing one of her favorites in 1979, I'm Glad There is You.
- published: 28 Jun 2007
- author: NYCguys2007
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads, Full Album [1958]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 40:13
- Updated: 11 May 2013
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads 1958 - Kapp Records Orchestra directed by Frank Hunter The Trio: Don Abney, Piano / Charles Smith, Drums / Joe Benjamin, Bass ...
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_Book_Of_Ballads,_Full_Album_1958_
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads 1958 - Kapp Records Orchestra directed by Frank Hunter The Trio: Don Abney, Piano / Charles Smith, Drums / Joe Benjamin, Bass ...
- published: 28 Mar 2013
- views: 366
- author: Kurt Clark
Women in Jazz p8 (Kim Burrell, Carmen McRae)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:45
- Updated: 24 Mar 2013
Andrew Sheron ( http://www.andrewsheron.com ) talks to Berklee student Kata Kozma ( http://www.katakozma.com ) about some of the most influential and iconic ...
http://wn.com/Women_in_Jazz_p8_Kim_Burrell,_Carmen_McRae
Andrew Sheron ( http://www.andrewsheron.com ) talks to Berklee student Kata Kozma ( http://www.katakozma.com ) about some of the most influential and iconic ...
- published: 20 Aug 2010
- views: 561
- author: Kata Kozma
Nina Simone, Esther Phillips, Carmen McRae, Maxine Weldon sing Billie Holiday finale.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 23 May 2013
http://wn.com/Nina_Simone,_Esther_Phillips,_Carmen_McRae,_Maxine_Weldon_sing_Billie_Holiday_finale
Carmen Mcrae - When I Fall in Love (1959)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 20 May 2013
Carmen McRae - When I Fall in Love (1959) - The Overjazz Channel aims to offer only the best recordings of the begining era of modern music. Re-discover geni...
http://wn.com/Carmen_Mcrae_When_I_Fall_in_Love_1959
Carmen McRae - When I Fall in Love (1959) - The Overjazz Channel aims to offer only the best recordings of the begining era of modern music. Re-discover geni...
- published: 17 Sep 2012
- views: 16247
- author: overjazzrecords
CARMEN MCRAE - That Old Black Magic
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 18 May 2013
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
http://wn.com/CARMEN_MCRAE_That_Old_Black_Magic
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 37049
- author: vladimirsmartins
Carmen Mcrae Live in Tokyo, Japan, 1986.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 80:58
- Updated: 16 May 2013
The One and Only Carmen Mcrae live in Tokyo, Japan 1986.
http://wn.com/Carmen_Mcrae_Live_in_Tokyo,_Japan,_1986
The One and Only Carmen Mcrae live in Tokyo, Japan 1986.
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 1103
- author: nw5alive
CARMEN MCRAE - No More Blues
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:05
- Updated: 20 May 2013
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
http://wn.com/CARMEN_MCRAE_No_More_Blues
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 131893
- author: vladimirsmartins
Carmen McRae - STARDUST
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:19
- Updated: 16 May 2013
from the album LIVE AT THE FLAMINGO (1962)
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_STARDUST
Carmen McRae 1988 Montreal
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:57
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
17 It's Like Reaching for the Moon 18 I Only Have Eyes for You.
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_1988_Montreal
17 It's Like Reaching for the Moon 18 I Only Have Eyes for You.
- published: 12 Feb 2007
- author: diegodobini2
Carmen McRae - On Green Dolphin Street
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 02 May 2013
Carmen McRae at the 1980 North Sea Jazz Festival.
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_On_Green_Dolphin_Street
Carmen MCrae - Guess Who I Saw Today, Gonna Look My Heart
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:19
- Updated: 16 May 2013
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
http://wn.com/Carmen_MCrae_Guess_Who_I_Saw_Today,_Gonna_Look_My_Heart
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
- published: 26 Oct 2008
- author: cminor7add9th
Carmen McRae Mr Magic
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:19
- Updated: 21 May 2013
1980 album I'm Coming Home Again Grover Washington - soprano sax Hubert Laws - flute and alto flute Mario Sprouse - electric piano Buster Williams - bass.
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_Mr_Magic
1980 album I'm Coming Home Again Grover Washington - soprano sax Hubert Laws - flute and alto flute Mario Sprouse - electric piano Buster Williams - bass.
- published: 14 Dec 2010
- views: 11362
- author: jazzysclassicjazz
Clarke-Boland Big Band w. Carmen Mcrae
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 39:11
- Updated: 15 May 2013
The whole show from 1968.
http://wn.com/Clarke-Boland_Big_Band_w_Carmen_Mcrae
New York State of Mind / Carmen McRae
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:27
- Updated: 13 May 2013
New York State of Mind by Carmen McRae.
http://wn.com/New_York_State_of_Mind_Carmen_McRae
Carmen McRae - If You Never Fall In Love With Me
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:42
- Updated: 18 May 2013
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_If_You_Never_Fall_In_Love_With_Me
Carmen McRae - Blame It On My Youth
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 17 May 2013
Recorded by Carmen McRae in 1964 "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as cri...
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_Blame_It_On_My_Youth
Recorded by Carmen McRae in 1964 "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as cri...
- published: 17 May 2011
- views: 23983
- author: robgina62
Carmen McRae Love For Sale
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 17 May 2013
Carmen McRae vocals - Norman Simmons piano - Victor Sproles bass - Walter Perkins drums 1962.
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_Love_For_Sale
Carmen McRae vocals - Norman Simmons piano - Victor Sproles bass - Walter Perkins drums 1962.
- published: 04 Feb 2010
- views: 39396
- author: JATLOZ
Carmen McRae "The Man I Love"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:35
- Updated: 03 May 2013
Recorded at a Club-date in Italy. Shame that the piano is soooo... out of tune.
http://wn.com/Carmen_McRae_The_Man_I_Love
Recorded at a Club-date in Italy. Shame that the piano is soooo... out of tune.
- published: 13 Mar 2009
- author: icedrum2
CARMEN MCRAE - CLOSE TO YOU
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 07 May 2013
1971 Album : The Great American Songbook Music : Burt Bacharach Lyrics : Hal David Paintings by Henri Matisse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DeY-5aahcA&list...;
http://wn.com/CARMEN_MCRAE_CLOSE_TO_YOU
1971 Album : The Great American Songbook Music : Burt Bacharach Lyrics : Hal David Paintings by Henri Matisse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DeY-5aahcA&list...;
- published: 27 Jul 2012
- views: 2649
- author: atubeeee1
89:06
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal-1988 (full concert)
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988....
published: 30 Jan 2013
author: nw5alive
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal-1988 (full concert)
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- views: 2748
- author: nw5alive
3:44
CARMEN MCRAE - That Old Black Magic
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986....
published: 18 Mar 2009
author: vladimirsmartins
CARMEN MCRAE - That Old Black Magic
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 37049
- author: vladimirsmartins
6:26
Carmen McRae - Just A Little Loving (Live At Ratso's)
Carmen McRae live performance from Ratso's jazz club in Chicago in 1976....
published: 04 Feb 2012
author: Ariana Madruga
Carmen McRae - Just A Little Loving (Live At Ratso's)
Carmen McRae live performance from Ratso's jazz club in Chicago in 1976.
- published: 04 Feb 2012
- author: Ariana Madruga
7:55
Carmen mcRae sings Billie Holiday live !
...
published: 07 May 2011
author: mezzomanUK
Carmen mcRae sings Billie Holiday live !
- published: 07 May 2011
- views: 1195
- author: mezzomanUK
3:20
Carmen McRae Sunday (Live) (HQ)
1963 album Live at Sugar Hill, San Francisco....
published: 30 Apr 2012
author: jazzysclassicjazz
Carmen McRae Sunday (Live) (HQ)
1963 album Live at Sugar Hill, San Francisco.
- published: 30 Apr 2012
- views: 887
- author: jazzysclassicjazz
4:05
CARMEN MCRAE - No More Blues
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986....
published: 18 Mar 2009
author: vladimirsmartins
CARMEN MCRAE - No More Blues
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 131893
- author: vladimirsmartins
4:21
Carmen MCrae - I Concentrate On You
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott ...
published: 26 Oct 2008
author: cminor7add9th
Carmen MCrae - I Concentrate On You
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
- published: 26 Oct 2008
- views: 13694
- author: cminor7add9th
6:19
Carmen MCrae - Guess Who I Saw Today, Gonna Look My Heart
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott ...
published: 26 Oct 2008
author: cminor7add9th
Carmen MCrae - Guess Who I Saw Today, Gonna Look My Heart
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
- published: 26 Oct 2008
- author: cminor7add9th
2:11
CARMEN MCRAE - Getting Some Fun Out Of Life
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986....
published: 18 Mar 2009
author: vladimirsmartins
CARMEN MCRAE - Getting Some Fun Out Of Life
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 9701
- author: vladimirsmartins
8:19
Carmen MCrae - I'm in The Mood For Love
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott ...
published: 26 Oct 2008
author: cminor7add9th
Carmen MCrae - I'm in The Mood For Love
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
- published: 26 Oct 2008
- views: 26499
- author: cminor7add9th
3:02
Carmen McRae Something To Live For (HQ)
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "...
published: 19 Oct 2012
author: jazzyscookie
Carmen McRae Something To Live For (HQ)
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, ...
- published: 19 Oct 2012
- views: 372
- author: jazzyscookie
3:26
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal 1988 - Old Devil Moon
...
published: 23 Apr 2013
author: DubhglasZaffa
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal 1988 - Old Devil Moon
- published: 23 Apr 2013
- views: 15
- author: DubhglasZaffa
3:54
CARMEN MCRAE - Yesterdays
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986....
published: 18 Mar 2009
author: vladimirsmartins
CARMEN MCRAE - Yesterdays
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 15789
- author: vladimirsmartins
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7:16
CARMEN MCRAE - My foolish heart (Recorded Live at Bubba's)
Recorded Live at Bubba's......
published: 29 Jan 2013
author: Canal de sauldje09
CARMEN MCRAE - My foolish heart (Recorded Live at Bubba's)
Recorded Live at Bubba's...
- published: 29 Jan 2013
- views: 1896
- author: Canal de sauldje09
5:56
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal 1988 - UP SIDE DOWN (Flor de Lis - Djavan)
...
published: 22 Apr 2013
author: DubhglasZaffa
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal 1988 - UP SIDE DOWN (Flor de Lis - Djavan)
- published: 22 Apr 2013
- views: 29
- author: DubhglasZaffa
4:29
Carmen McRae It Never Entered My Mind (Live) (HQ)
1963 album Live at Sugar Hill, San Francisco....
published: 30 Apr 2012
author: jazzysclassicjazz
Carmen McRae It Never Entered My Mind (Live) (HQ)
1963 album Live at Sugar Hill, San Francisco.
- published: 30 Apr 2012
- author: jazzysclassicjazz
4:40
CARMEN MCRAE - CLOSE TO YOU
1971 Album : The Great American Songbook Music : Burt Bacharach Lyrics : Hal David Paintin...
published: 27 Jul 2012
author: atubeeee1
CARMEN MCRAE - CLOSE TO YOU
1971 Album : The Great American Songbook Music : Burt Bacharach Lyrics : Hal David Paintings by Henri Matisse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DeY-5aahcA&list...;
- published: 27 Jul 2012
- views: 2649
- author: atubeeee1
89:06
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal-1988 (full concert)
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988....
published: 30 Jan 2013
author: nw5alive
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal-1988 (full concert)
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- views: 2748
- author: nw5alive
40:13
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads, Full Album [1958]
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads 1958 - Kapp Records Orchestra directed by Frank Hunter The ...
published: 28 Mar 2013
author: Kurt Clark
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads, Full Album [1958]
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads 1958 - Kapp Records Orchestra directed by Frank Hunter The Trio: Don Abney, Piano / Charles Smith, Drums / Joe Benjamin, Bass ...
- published: 28 Mar 2013
- views: 366
- author: Kurt Clark
39:11
Clarke-Boland Big Band w. Carmen Mcrae
The whole show from 1968....
published: 02 Feb 2013
author: wasaexpress
Clarke-Boland Big Band w. Carmen Mcrae
The whole show from 1968.
- published: 02 Feb 2013
- views: 250
- author: wasaexpress
67:52
The Ladies Sing Jazz 2
Volume 2 of this DVD collection features the most important and influential jazz vocalists...
published: 16 Feb 2013
author: Eduardo Gómez
The Ladies Sing Jazz 2
Volume 2 of this DVD collection features the most important and influential jazz vocalists in the history of the idiom, including such legendary artists as E...
- published: 16 Feb 2013
- views: 1254
- author: Eduardo Gómez
48:01
Jazz Legends Live! Part 9
Jazz Legends Live! is a series of live performances from contemporary Jazz artists recorde...
published: 17 Jun 2011
author: MVDmusicvideo
Jazz Legends Live! Part 9
Jazz Legends Live! is a series of live performances from contemporary Jazz artists recorded all over the world in a variety of venues. Set Play List: Gary Bu...
- published: 17 Jun 2011
- views: 852
- author: MVDmusicvideo
20:00
Live at the Upper West Side Apple Store NYC Lynette Washington/Dennis Bell Jazz NY.m4v
Lynette Washington & Dennis Bell Jazz NY featuring Alex Blake-Bass, Victor Jones-Drums Nov...
published: 29 Jan 2012
author: Dennis Bell
Live at the Upper West Side Apple Store NYC Lynette Washington/Dennis Bell Jazz NY.m4v
Lynette Washington & Dennis Bell Jazz NY featuring Alex Blake-Bass, Victor Jones-Drums November 28,2011 LIVE at the Upper West Side Apple Store debuting thei...
- published: 29 Jan 2012
- author: Dennis Bell
61:35
Jazz Mix Of Thanks , ( Takora's EDIT ) #5
Jazz Mix #5 1 Ella Fitzgerald - Happy Blues 2 Mary Stallings - Lullaby Of The Leaves 3 Jim...
published: 19 Aug 2012
author: nmsheronms
Jazz Mix Of Thanks , ( Takora's EDIT ) #5
Jazz Mix #5 1 Ella Fitzgerald - Happy Blues 2 Mary Stallings - Lullaby Of The Leaves 3 Jimmy Scott - I'll Close my Eyes 4 Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Moon In...
- published: 19 Aug 2012
- views: 17795
- author: nmsheronms
63:11
Kozzanostra - Champagne For Everyone (Chill-Jazz Mix)
Champagne For Everyone (Chill-Jazz Mix) Track list: Euphonic Traveller - Le Tour Eiffel Ph...
published: 22 Nov 2012
author: Kozzanostra Wski
Kozzanostra - Champagne For Everyone (Chill-Jazz Mix)
Champagne For Everyone (Chill-Jazz Mix) Track list: Euphonic Traveller - Le Tour Eiffel Phonique ft. Ruben - Amy's Heart Carmen McRae ft. Dave Brubeck Quarte...
- published: 22 Nov 2012
- views: 319
- author: Kozzanostra Wski
20:18
Mark Whitfield Jazz guitarist & Roland Guerin of Baton Rouge-1990's-LIVE!
Mark Whitfield Jazz guitarist & Roland Guerin-1990's Mark Whitfield (1967) is an American ...
published: 23 Jan 2013
author: bacnthaday's channel
Mark Whitfield Jazz guitarist & Roland Guerin of Baton Rouge-1990's-LIVE!
Mark Whitfield Jazz guitarist & Roland Guerin-1990's Mark Whitfield (1967) is an American hard bop and soul-jazz guitarist born in Syosset, New York, probabl...
- published: 23 Jan 2013
- views: 1476
- author: bacnthaday's channel
97:18
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
This compelling story centers on Jo Jo Dancer (Richard Pryor), a well-known comedian at th...
published: 13 Sep 2011
author: Crackle Movies & Television
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
This compelling story centers on Jo Jo Dancer (Richard Pryor), a well-known comedian at the peak of his popularity, and the bottom rung of his self-esteem. Jo Jo has it all - stardom, movie roles, record deals. But the price he pays for fame and fortune is too great. After buckling under the pressures of success and suffering a life-threatening accident, Jo Jo examines his life over the past four decades - from his upbringing in a brothel, to performances.
- published: 13 Sep 2011
- views: 478
- author: Crackle Movies & Television
67:20
Buster Williams "Something more" Quartet - Catania Jazz 13 marzo 2012
Formazione: Buster Williams -- contrabbasso Mark Gross -- sax alto & soprano Patrice Rushe...
published: 30 Oct 2012
author: Francesco Restuccia
Buster Williams "Something more" Quartet - Catania Jazz 13 marzo 2012
Formazione: Buster Williams -- contrabbasso Mark Gross -- sax alto & soprano Patrice Rushen -- piano Michael Baker -- batteria Nato nel New Jersey nel 1942, ...
- published: 30 Oct 2012
- views: 256
- author: Francesco Restuccia
57:33
Betty Carter Live at The Montreal Jazz Festival 1982- (full concert)
The Incredible Betty Carter Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival (1982)...
published: 29 Jan 2013
author: nw5alive
Betty Carter Live at The Montreal Jazz Festival 1982- (full concert)
The Incredible Betty Carter Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival (1982)
- published: 29 Jan 2013
- views: 2550
- author: nw5alive
47:28
Ella Fitzgerld Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival 1977.
Ella Fitzgerald and the Tommy Flanagan Trio Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1977)...
published: 30 Jan 2013
author: nw5alive
Ella Fitzgerld Live at The Montreux Jazz Festival 1977.
Ella Fitzgerald and the Tommy Flanagan Trio Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1977)
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- author: nw5alive
Youtube results:
26:09
Mark Murphy Appearing on The Ad Lib TV Show 1981 (Part 1)
Mark Murphy Appearing on The Ad Lib TV Show 1981 (Part 1)...
published: 31 Jan 2013
author: nw5alive
Mark Murphy Appearing on The Ad Lib TV Show 1981 (Part 1)
Mark Murphy Appearing on The Ad Lib TV Show 1981 (Part 1)
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 507
- author: nw5alive
45:44
Kenny Kirkland & Carmen Landy / Night and Day.
1) Night & Day 2) Everything Must Change 3) Easy To Love 4) My Old Flame 5) Do Nothing Til...
published: 15 Dec 2012
author: coro canta
Kenny Kirkland & Carmen Landy / Night and Day.
1) Night & Day 2) Everything Must Change 3) Easy To Love 4) My Old Flame 5) Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 6) Lullaby Of Birdland 7) More Than You Know 8) ...
- published: 15 Dec 2012
- views: 497
- author: coro canta
108:32
Betty Carter Live at The Hamburg Jazz Festival 1993. (Full Concert)
The incredible Betty Carter Live at The Hamburg Jazz Festival, October 1993 with Geri Alle...
published: 30 Jan 2013
author: nw5alive
Betty Carter Live at The Hamburg Jazz Festival 1993. (Full Concert)
The incredible Betty Carter Live at The Hamburg Jazz Festival, October 1993 with Geri Allen on piano, Dave Holland on Bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums.
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- views: 2531
- author: nw5alive
20:30
The Very Thought Of You + More Music For Relaxation From An Old Reader's Digest Album!
THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU (Ray Noble) Recorded by: Ray Anthony; Chet Baker; Count Basie; BBC...
published: 24 Nov 2012
author: EasyListeningMusic4u
The Very Thought Of You + More Music For Relaxation From An Old Reader's Digest Album!
THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU (Ray Noble) Recorded by: Ray Anthony; Chet Baker; Count Basie; BBC Big Band; Tony Bennett; Earl Bostic; Al Bowlly; Charlie Byrd; Benn...
- published: 24 Nov 2012
- views: 503
- author: EasyListeningMusic4u
89:06
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal-1988 (full concert)
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988....
published: 30 Jan 2013
author: nw5alive
Carmen Mcrae Live in Montreal-1988 (full concert)
The One And Only Carmen Mcrae Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1988.
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- views: 2748
- author: nw5alive
2:49
Carmen McRae - The Very Thought of you
Must See....! The lovely Carmen Beautiful Song....
published: 20 Feb 2008
author: samarkaaan
Carmen McRae - The Very Thought of you
Must See....! The lovely Carmen Beautiful Song.
- published: 20 Feb 2008
- views: 207645
- author: samarkaaan
4:32
Carmen McRae Round Midnight
Carmen McRae vocals - Norman Simmons piano - Victor Sproles bass - Walter Perkins drums 19...
published: 04 Feb 2010
author: JATLOZ
Carmen McRae Round Midnight
Carmen McRae vocals - Norman Simmons piano - Victor Sproles bass - Walter Perkins drums 1962.
- published: 04 Feb 2010
- views: 91723
- author: JATLOZ
4:17
CARMEN MCRAE sings "I'm Glad There is You" 1979
Carmen McRae singing one of her favorites in 1979, I'm Glad There is You....
published: 28 Jun 2007
author: NYCguys2007
CARMEN MCRAE sings "I'm Glad There is You" 1979
Carmen McRae singing one of her favorites in 1979, I'm Glad There is You.
- published: 28 Jun 2007
- author: NYCguys2007
40:13
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads, Full Album [1958]
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads 1958 - Kapp Records Orchestra directed by Frank Hunter The ...
published: 28 Mar 2013
author: Kurt Clark
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads, Full Album [1958]
Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads 1958 - Kapp Records Orchestra directed by Frank Hunter The Trio: Don Abney, Piano / Charles Smith, Drums / Joe Benjamin, Bass ...
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Women in Jazz p8 (Kim Burrell, Carmen McRae)
Andrew Sheron ( http://www.andrewsheron.com ) talks to Berklee student Kata Kozma ( http:/...
published: 20 Aug 2010
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Women in Jazz p8 (Kim Burrell, Carmen McRae)
Andrew Sheron ( http://www.andrewsheron.com ) talks to Berklee student Kata Kozma ( http://www.katakozma.com ) about some of the most influential and iconic ...
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Nina Simone, Esther Phillips, Carmen McRae, Maxine Weldon sing Billie Holiday finale.
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Nina Simone, Esther Phillips, Carmen McRae, Maxine Weldon sing Billie Holiday finale.
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Carmen Mcrae - When I Fall in Love (1959)
Carmen McRae - When I Fall in Love (1959) - The Overjazz Channel aims to offer only the be...
published: 17 Sep 2012
author: overjazzrecords
Carmen Mcrae - When I Fall in Love (1959)
Carmen McRae - When I Fall in Love (1959) - The Overjazz Channel aims to offer only the best recordings of the begining era of modern music. Re-discover geni...
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CARMEN MCRAE - That Old Black Magic
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986....
published: 18 Mar 2009
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CARMEN MCRAE - That Old Black Magic
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
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CARMEN MCRAE - No More Blues
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986....
published: 18 Mar 2009
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CARMEN MCRAE - No More Blues
From the laserdisc "Carmen McRae Live" - 1986.
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Carmen McRae - STARDUST
from the album LIVE AT THE FLAMINGO (1962)...
published: 04 Jul 2010
author: Norn Cutson
Carmen McRae - STARDUST
from the album LIVE AT THE FLAMINGO (1962)
- published: 04 Jul 2010
- author: Norn Cutson
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Carmen McRae 1988 Montreal
17 It's Like Reaching for the Moon 18 I Only Have Eyes for You....
published: 12 Feb 2007
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Carmen McRae 1988 Montreal
17 It's Like Reaching for the Moon 18 I Only Have Eyes for You.
- published: 12 Feb 2007
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Carmen MCrae - Guess Who I Saw Today, Gonna Look My Heart
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott ...
published: 26 Oct 2008
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Carmen MCrae - Guess Who I Saw Today, Gonna Look My Heart
Carmen MCrae Live at Good Day Club in Tokyo, Japan 1990 piano: Eric Gunnison Bass : Scott Colley Drums : Mark Pulice.
- published: 26 Oct 2008
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Carmen McRae Mr Magic
1980 album I'm Coming Home Again Grover Washington - soprano sax Hubert Laws - flute and a...
published: 14 Dec 2010
author: jazzysclassicjazz
Carmen McRae Mr Magic
1980 album I'm Coming Home Again Grover Washington - soprano sax Hubert Laws - flute and alto flute Mario Sprouse - electric piano Buster Williams - bass.
- published: 14 Dec 2010
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Clarke-Boland Big Band w. Carmen Mcrae
The whole show from 1968....
published: 02 Feb 2013
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Clarke-Boland Big Band w. Carmen Mcrae
The whole show from 1968.
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New York State of Mind / Carmen McRae
New York State of Mind by Carmen McRae....
published: 03 Feb 2010
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New York State of Mind / Carmen McRae
New York State of Mind by Carmen McRae.
- published: 03 Feb 2010
- author: marijnamsterdam
photo: AP / Bogdan Maran
25 May 2013
There has been a huge increase in anti-Muslim incidents since the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich, an inter-faith charity has said. Faith Matters, which runs a helpline, said they had received more than 150 calls since Wednesday's attack, up from a daily average of six. A number of people have been arrested after allegedly offensive comments were made on social media websites ... 'Significant online activity' ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
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Independent online (SA)
22 May 2013
Once again Joburg will be jumping with swinging sounds when The Standard Bank Joy of Jazz hits town in August ... His quartet features two other illustrious jazz musicians ... Representing Japan is pianist Tsuyoshi Yamamoto who, after seeing an Art Blakey concert, taught himself to play jazz and played with Dizzy Gillespie, Carmen McRae and Elvin Jones ... Carmen Lundy was here a few years back and promises her fans a mix of the old and the new....(size: 4.1Kb)
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Seattle Post
17 May 2013
As the biographical sketch on Denise King's website explains, the Philadelphia-born singer has had no formal vocal training, but "it's apparent that Denise was born to sing." And although she dabbles in different genres, her real love is jazz ... Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, and Carmen McRae-these are the divas she looked to for models, and they served her well ... Eight of the songs are Hutman compositions....(size: 2.3Kb)
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Straight no Chaser
02 May 2013
Chaser asked them to keep a diary of events that led to their paths eventually colliding in Tokyo at the 2nd Birthday party of Air. GP. The High Life ... Who cares? I was there to eat. Anthony Bourdain - A Cooks Tour. Land at Narita ... We dropped in on local record store, Early Records, where I obtained a vinyl of Sun Ra meets Salah Ragab in Egypt on an obscure Greek label, Soundwave, plus Carmen Mcraes Just A little Heaven on Atlantic....(size: 3.0Kb)
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U~T San Diego
01 May 2013
" >Jazz at The Merc. Who. Julie Kelly. When. 7.30 p.m. Thursday. Where. The Merc, 42051 Main St., Temecula. Tickets. $15. Phone. (951) 308-6377. Online. temeculatheater.org ... “Just look at what Carl Fisher’s arrangements did for Frankie Laine.” ... Ditto great singers such as Anita O’Day and Carmen McRae, who Kelly said influenced her more than any other singer ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)
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Huffington Post
25 Apr 2013
Whenever we put on an Ella Fitzgerald record, her pure and perfect pitch puts our minds at ease. That soothing voice made Fitzgerald standout among bluesier vocalists such as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Dinah Washington, and it reassured the Virginia native that her place was in the spotlight. Fitzgerald got her first big break back in 1934 during Amateur Night at Harlem's Apollo Theater ... Loading Slideshow ... 1955. 1957....(size: 3.6Kb)
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The Examiner
17 Apr 2013
To read the beginning of this special National Poetry Month series by Aberjhani please check the links at the end of the article. Part 3 begins now. ... It also makes a jazz poem (see below) the most suitable for the third Poem in Your Pocket Day title featured in this series ... It remains strong in modern times ... the great Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Alberta Hunter, Herbie Hancock, Hugh Masekela, Carmen McRae, and Ella Fitzgerald ... naked ... ....(size: 7.9Kb)
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STL Today
09 Apr 2013
Actress Molly Ringwald made her name in the 1980s as the centerpiece of classic teen movies “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink” and “Sixteen Candles,” but these days she’s making a name in the music world. Introducing Molly Ringwald. jazz singer. It’s not as strange as you may think ... She chose acting ... She names singers Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Anita O’Day, Carmen McRae and Frank Sinatra as key influences....(size: 3.4Kb)
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noodls
06 Apr 2013
(Source. University System of Ohio). CCM Jazz Ensembles Jam with John Von Ohlen ... Date. 4/6/2013 12.00.00 AM. By. Sara Kissinger. Other Contact. Curt Whitacre. Other Contact Phone. (513) 556-2683. Photos By. Dottie Stover ... on Sunday, April 14, in UC's Corbett Auditorium ... An Ohio native and CCM faculty member since 1985, Von Ohlen is revered for his work with Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Rosemary Clooney, Mel Tormé, Carmen McRae and countless others....(size: 3.2Kb)
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Business Journal
05 Apr 2013
Ed Goldman Columnist- Sacramento Business Journal Email . Twitter. “In the 1970s, no man wanted his daughter to go into the military,” Vivian Lee says over coffee. “But I wanted to. So I went to my mom and said, ‘I really want to do this.’ I was 17 ... And once she was in the U.S ... She started out by using the secondary tracks (music separated from vocals) of Lena Horne, Carmen McRae and other jazz greats ... Related links. ... Comments ... ....(size: 7.4Kb)
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New York Daily News
28 Mar 2013
HE’S DASHING AND ‘SMASH’-ING. Jeremy Jordan, the Tony-nominated leading man (“Newsies”) and TV star (“Smash”), will headline the “Spotlight on Town Hall” concert. Hosted by NY1’s Roma Torre, it’s a salute to the hall’s 92nd anniversary and recent designation as a National Historic Landmark ... Gabriele and Joe Tranchina will salute “The Divas of Jazz,” such as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae, at the Whitestone Library ... $18....(size: 2.7Kb)
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The Examiner
12 Mar 2013
Rating for Emy Tseng "Sonho" [February 5, 2013 release-Mei Music]. 4. “I feel that the album really reflects my musical voice. It is our modern take on Brazilian music… I want to spend more time in Brazil, absorbing the music ... “I Thought About You” is an old-fashioned song popularized in 1939 and covered by Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Carmen McRae, Shirley Horn, Mel Tormé… you get the gist....(size: 12.1Kb)
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All About Jazz
09 Mar 2013
By NICHOLAS F. MONDELLO, Nicholas F. Mondello. CD/DVD Reviewer since 2008 Nick Mondello is a pro trumpeter, writer and marketing/PR consultant to musicians worldwide. Recent articles (86 total) Lush Melody Magic A Quiet Thing Nyhavn Live Familiar Fields ... He does it all on his own breath ... More Carmen McRae than any other, Eastman handles the perfectly-selected tunes gorgeously ... Pianist Randy Porter is equally superb here ... Track Listing ... piano....(size: 3.0Kb)
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noodls
01 Mar 2013
(Source. Smithsonian Institution) ... All programs are free unless otherwise indicated. Feature Event ... Performances ... The Life and Mastery of Carmen McRae" Sunday, March 10, at 2 p.m. Visitors can join up-and-coming vocalist Mikaela Carlton of the Howard University Vocal Music Department as she presents an afternoon of informative entertainment dedicated to jazz pioneer Carmen McRae. She will be accompanied by the Carmen McRae Tribute Band....(size: 7.0Kb)
| Carmen McRae | |
|---|---|
| File:Carmen McRae.jpg | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Carmen Mercedes McRae |
| Also known as | "The Singer's Singer" |
| Born | (1920-04-08)April 8, 1920 |
| Origin | Harlem, New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | November 10, 1994(1994-11-10) (aged 74) Beverly Hills, California, United States |
| Genres | Vocal jazz, bebop, traditional pop |
| Occupations | Singer, pianist |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1944s–1994 |
| Labels | Decca, Verve, Atlantic, Novus, Columbia, Blue Note, Concord, Buddah |
| Associated acts | Sammy Davis, Jr. Billie Holiday Cal Tjader George Shearing Dave Brubeck |
Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable.[1] McRae drew inspiration from Billie Holiday, but established her own distinctive voice. She went on to record over 60 albums, enjoying a rich musical career, performing and recording in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
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Biography[link]
McRae was born in Harlem to Jamaican immigrant parents, Osmond and Evadne McRae. She began studying piano when she was eight, and the music of jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington filled her home. She met singer Billie Holiday when she was just 17 years old. As a teenager McRae came to the attention of Teddy Wilson and his wife, the composer Irene Kitchings Wilson. One of McRae's early songs, "Dream of Life" through their influence, was recorded in 1939 by Wilson’s longtime collaborator Billie Holiday.[2] McRae considered Holiday to be her primary influence.
In her late teens and early twenties, McRae played piano at a New York club called Minton's Playhouse, Harlem's most famous jazz club, sang as a chorus girl, and worked as a secretary. It was at Minton's where she met trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, bassist Oscar Pettiford, and drummer Kenny Clarke. Had her first important job as a pianist with the Benny Carter's big band (1944), worked with Count Basie (1944) and made first recording as pianist with Mercer Ellington Band (1946–1947). But it was while working in Brooklyn that she came to the attention of Decca’s Milt Gabler. Her five year association with Decca yielded 12 LPs.
In 1948 she moved to Chicago with comedian George Kirby. She played piano steadily for almost four years before returning to New York. Those years in Chicago, McRae told Jazz Forum, "gave me whatever it is that I have now. That's the most prominent schooling I ever had."[3] Back in New York in the early 1950s, McRae got the record contract that launched her career. In 1954, she was voted best new female vocalist by Down Beat magazine. She married bassist Ike Isaacs in the late 1950s.
Among her most interesting recording projects were Mad About The Man (1957) with composer Noël Coward, Boy Meets Girl (1957) with Sammy Davis, Jr., participating in Dave Brubeck's The Real Ambassadors (1961) with Louis Armstrong, a tribute album You're Lookin' at Me (A Collection of Nat King Cole Songs) (1983), cutting an album of live duets with Betty Carter, The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets (1987), being accompanied by Dave Brubeck and George Shearing, and closing her career with brilliant tributes to Thelonious Monk, Carmen Sings Monk (1990), and Sarah Vaughan, Sarah: Dedicated to You (1991).
As a result of her early friendship with Billie Holiday, she never performed without singing at least one song associated with "Lady Day", and recorded an album in 1983 in her honor entitled For Lady Day, which was released in 1995. Some songs included are; "Good Morning Heartache", "Them There Eyes", "Lover Man", "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", just to name a few. McRae also recorded with the world best jazz musicians, Take Five Live (1961) with Dave Brubeck, Heat Wave (1982) with Cal Tjader, and Two for the Road (1989) with George Shearing.
Carmen McRae sang in jazz clubs throughout the United States—and across the world—for over fifty years. McRae was a popular performer at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival (1961–1963, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1982). Performing with Duke Ellington's at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1980, singing "Don't Get Around Much Any More", and at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1989.[4]
Carmen McRae was forced to retire in 1991 due to emphysema.[5] McRae died on November 10, 1994, in Beverly Hills, California from a stroke, following complications from respiratory illness.
Awards[link]
| Carmen McRae Grammy Award Recognitions[6] | ||||
| Year | Category | Title | Label | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Female | Carmen Sings Monk | Novus | Nominee |
| 1988 | Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Female | Fine and Mellow | Concord Jazz | Nominee |
| 1988 | Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Duo or Group | The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets | Great American Music Hall | Nominee |
| 1987 | Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Female | Any Old Time | Denon | Nominee |
| 1984 | Best Jazz Vocal Performance | You're Lookin' at Me (A Collection of Nat King Cole Songs) | Concord Jazz | Nominee |
| 1977 | Best Jazz Vocal Performance | Carmen McRae at the Great American Music Hall | Blue Note | Nominee |
| 1971 | Best Jazz Performance - Soloist | Carmen McRae | Atlantic | Nominee |
| Carmen McRae Awards | ||||
| Year | Organization | Category | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | National Endowment for the Arts | NEA Jazz Masters | Winner | |
| 1993 | NAACP | NAACP Image Awards | Winner | |
Filmography[link]
Movies[link]
- 1986: "Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling", played the grandmother[7]
- 1967: "Hotel", played Christine[8]
- 1960: "The Subterraneans", played herself[9]
- 1956: "The Square Jungle", herself[10]
Television[link]
- 1982: "L. A. Jazz"
- 1981: "Billie Holiday. A Tribute"
- 1981: "At the Palace"
- 1980: "From Jumpstreet"
- 1979: "Roots: The Next Generations", played Lila[11]
- 1979: "Carmen McRae in Concert"
- 1976: "Sammy and Company"
- 1976: "Soul"
Partial Discography[link]
| Year | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Sarah: Dedicated to You | Novus |
| 1988 | Carmen Sings Monk | Novus |
| 1988 | Fine and Mellow: Live at Birdland West (Live) | Concord |
| 1987 | The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets (Live, with Betty Carter) | Great American Music Hall |
| 1987 | What Do The Words Say (with Ray Brown) | Blue Music Group |
| 1983 | You're Lookin' at Me (A Collection of Nat King Cole Songs) | Concord Jazz |
| 1982 | Heat Wave (with Cal Tjader) | Concord Jazz |
| 1980 | Two for the Road (with George Shearing) | Concord Jazz |
| 1977 | At The Great American Music Hall | Blue Note |
| 1975 | Live at Century Plaza | Atlantic |
| 1972 | The Great American Songbook | Atlantic |
| 1970 | Just a Little Lovin' | Atlantic |
| 1967 | Portrait of Carmen | Atlantic |
| 1967 | Sounds of Silence | Atlantic |
| 1967 | For Once in My Life | Atlantic |
| 1965 | Alive! | Columbia |
| 1962 | Something Wonderful | Columbia |
| 1962 | The Real Ambassadors | Columbia |
| 1961 | Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and other Billie Holiday Classics | Columbia |
| 1961 | Take Five Live | Columbia |
| 1960 | Book of Ballads | Kapp |
| 1958 | Boy Meets Girl (with Sammy Davis, Jr.) | Decca |
| 1958 | Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (Released 2001) | Verve |
| 1957 | After Glow | Decca |
| 1956 | Blue Moon | Decca |
| 1955 | Torchy | Decca |
| 1954 | Easy to Love | Bethlehem |
| 1954 | Carmen McRae | Bethlehem |
References[link]
- ^ Carmen McRae at Allmusic
- ^ Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Guinness, page 2650, (1995) - ISBN 1-56159-176-9
- ^ Jazz Forum, No. 2, 1990
- ^ Montreux Jazz Festival
- ^ All Music: Carmen McRae
- ^ Grammy Award Database
- ^ Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
- ^ Hotel (1967)
- ^ The Subterraneans (1960)
- ^ The Square Jungle (1956)
- ^ Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
External links[link]
- Carmen McRae Full Discography
- Carmen McRae Discography
- Filmography
- Carmen McRae's Artist Page
- Carmen McRae at the Internet Movie Database
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | McRae, Carmen Mercedes |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | American jazz musician and actress |
| Date of birth | April 8, 1920 |
| Place of birth | New York City |
| Date of death | November 10, 1994 (aged 74) |
| Place of death | Beverly Hills, California |
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| Nina Simone | |
|---|---|
 Simone at a concert in Morlaix, France May 1982 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Eunice Kathleen Waymon |
| Born | (1933-02-21)February 21, 1933 Tryon, North Carolina, United States |
| Died | April 21, 2003(2003-04-21) (aged 70) Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône, France |
| Genres | Jazz, blues, R&B, folk, gospel |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, activist |
| Years active | 1954–2003 |
| Labels | Bethlehem, Colpix, Philips, RCA Victor, CTI, Legacy Recordings |
| Website | http://www.ninasimone.com/ |
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone /ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.
Born the sixth child of a preacher's family in North Carolina, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist as a child.[1] Her musical path changed direction after she was denied a scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, despite a well-received audition. Simone was later told by someone working at Curtis that she was rejected because she was black.[2] She then began playing in a small club in Philadelphia to fund her continuing musical education to become a classical pianist and was required to sing as well. She was approached for a recording by Bethlehem Records, and her rendition of "I Loves You Porgy" became a smash hit in the United States in 1958.[1] Over the length of her career, Simone recorded more than 40 albums, mostly between 1958 — when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue — and 1974.
Her musical style arose from a fusion of gospel and pop songs with classical music, in particular with influences from her first inspiration, Johann Sebastian Bach,[3] and accompanied with her expressive jazz-like singing in her characteristic low tenor. She injected as much of her classical background into her music as possible to give it more depth and quality, as she felt that pop music was inferior to classical.[4] Her intuitive grasp on the audience-performer relationship was gained from a unique background of playing piano accompaniment for church revivals and sermons regularly from the early age of six years.[5]
After 20 years of performing, she became involved in the civil rights movement and the direction of her life shifted once again.[4] Simone's music was highly influential in the fight for equal rights in the US.[6]
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Biography[link]
Youth (1933–1954)[link]
Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina. The sixth of eight children in a poor family, she began playing piano at age three; the first song she learned was "God Be With You, Till We Meet Again". Demonstrating a talent with the instrument, she performed at her local church, but her concert debut, a classical recital, was given when she was twelve. Simone later said that during this performance her parents, who had taken seats in the front row, were forced to move to the back of the hall to make way for white people. Simone said she refused to play until her parents were moved back to the front,[7][8] and that the incident contributed to her later involvement in the civil rights movement.
Simone's mother, Mary Kate Waymon, was a strict Methodist minister and a housemaid. Simone's father, John Divine Waymon, was a handyman who at one time owned a dry cleaning business, but who also suffered bouts of ill health. Mary Kate's employer, hearing of her daughter's talent, provided funds for piano lessons.[9] Subsequently, a local fund was set up to assist in Simone's continued education. With the assistance of this scholarship money she attended high school.
After finishing high school, she had studied for an interview with the help of a private tutor to study piano further at the Curtis Institute, but she was rejected. Simone believed that this rejection was related directly to her race.[10] Simone then moved to New York City, where she studied at the Juilliard School of Music.
Early success (1954–1959)[link]
To fund her private lessons, Simone performed at the Midtown Bar & Grill on Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City, whose owner insisted that she sing as well as play the piano. In 1954 she adopted the stage name Nina Simone. "Nina" (from niña, meaning 'little girl' in Spanish) was a nickname a boyfriend had given to her, and "Simone" was taken from the French actress Simone Signoret, whom she had seen in the movie Casque d'or.[11] Simone's mixture of jazz, blues, and classical music in her performances at the bar earned her a small, but loyal, fan base.[12]
In 1958, she befriended and married Don Ross, a beatnik who worked as a fairground barker, but quickly regretted their marriage.[13] After playing in small clubs, in 1958 she recorded a rendition of George Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" (from Porgy and Bess), which she learned from a Billie Holiday album and performed as a favor to a friend. It became her only Billboard top 40 success in the United States, and her debut album Little Girl Blue soon followed on Bethlehem Records. Simone missed out on more than $1 million in royalties (mainly because of the successful re-release of My Baby Just Cares for Me during the 1980s) and never benefited financially from the album, because she had sold her rights to it for $3,000.[14]
Becoming popular (1959–1964)[link]
After the success of Little Girl Blue, Simone signed a contract with Colpix Records, and recorded a string of studio and live albums. Colpix relinquished all creative control to her, including the choice of material that would be recorded, in exchange for her signing the contract with them. At this point, Simone only performed pop music to make money to continue her classical music studies, and was indifferent about having a recording contract. She kept this attitude toward the record industry for most of her career.[15]
Simone married a New York police detective, Andrew Stroud, in 1961; Stroud later became her manager.[16]
Civil rights era (1964–1974)[link]
In 1964, she changed record distributors, from the American Colpix to the Dutch Philips, which also meant a change in the contents of her recordings. Simone had always included songs in her repertoire that drew upon her African-American origins (such as "Brown Baby" and "Zungo" on Nina at the Village Gate in 1962). On her debut album for Philips, Nina Simone In Concert (live recording, 1964), however, Simone for the first time openly addressed the racial inequality that was prevalent in the United States with the song "Mississippi Goddam", her response to the murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four black children. The song was released as a single, and it was boycotted in certain southern states.[17][18] "Old Jim Crow", on the same album, addressed the Jim Crow Laws.
From then on, a civil rights message was standard in Simone's recording repertoire, becoming a part of her live performances. Simone performed and spoke at many civil rights meetings, such as at the Selma to Montgomery marches.[19] Simone advocated violent revolution during the civil rights period, rather than Martin Luther King's non-violent approach,[20] and she hoped that African Americans could, by armed combat, form a separate state. Nevertheless, she wrote in her autobiography that she and her family regarded all races as equal.[21]
She covered Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit", a song about the lynching of black men in the South, on Pastel Blues (1965). She also sang the W. Cuney poem "Images" on Let It All Out (1966), about the absence of pride she saw among African-American women. Simone wrote "Four Women", a song about four different stereotypes of African-American women,[17] and included the recording on her 1966 album Wild Is the Wind.
Simone moved from Philips to RCA Victor during 1967. She sang "Backlash Blues", written by her friend Langston Hughes on her first RCA album, Nina Simone Sings The Blues (1967). On Silk & Soul (1967), she recorded Billy Taylor's "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" and "Turning Point". The album Nuff Said (1968) contains live recordings from the Westbury Music Fair, April 7, 1968, three days after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. She dedicated the whole performance to him and sang "Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead)", a song written by her bass player, Gene Taylor, directly after the news of King's death had reached them.[22] In the summer of 1969 she performed at the Harlem Cultural Festival in Harlem's Mount Morris Park.
Together with Weldon Irvine, Simone turned the late Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished play To Be Young, Gifted, and Black into a civil rights song. Hansberry had been a personal friend whom Simone credited with cultivating her social and political consciousness. She performed the song live on the album Black Gold (1970). A studio recording was released as a single, and renditions of the song have been recorded by Aretha Franklin (on her 1972 album Young, Gifted and Black) and by Donny Hathaway.[17][21]
Later life (1974–2003)[link]
Simone left the United States in September 1970, flying to Barbados and expecting Stroud to communicate with her when she had to perform again. However, Stroud interpreted Simone's sudden disappearance, and the fact that she had left behind her wedding ring, as an indication of a desire for a divorce. As her manager, Stroud was in charge of Simone's income.
When Simone returned to the United States she learned that a warrant had been issued for her arrest for unpaid taxes (as a protest against her country's involvement with the Vietnam War), causing her to return to Barbados again to evade the authorities and prosecution.[23] Simone stayed in Barbados for quite some time and she had a lengthy affair with the Prime Minister, Errol Barrow.[24][25] A close friend, singer Miriam Makeba, then persuaded her to go to Liberia. Later, she lived in Switzerland and the Netherlands, before settling in France during 1992.
She recorded her last album for RCA, It Is Finished, during 1974. Simone did not make another record until 1978, when she was persuaded to go into the recording studio by CTI Records owner Creed Taylor. The result was the album Baltimore, which, while not a commercial success, did get good reviews and marked a quiet artistic renaissance in Simone's recording output.[26] Her choice of material retained its eclecticism, ranging from spiritual songs to Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl". Four years later Simone recorded Fodder On My Wings on a French label. During the 1980s Simone performed regularly at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London, where she recorded the album Live at Ronnie Scott's in 1984. Although her early on-stage style could be somewhat haughty and aloof, in later years, Simone particularly seemed to enjoy engaging her audiences sometimes by recounting humorous anecdotes related to her career and music and by soliciting requests. In 1987, the original 1958 recording of "My Baby Just Cares For Me" was used in a commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume in the United Kingdom. This led to a re-release of the recording, which stormed to number 4 on the UK's NME singles chart, giving her a brief surge in popularity in the UK. Her autobiography, I Put a Spell on You, was published in 1992. She recorded her last album, A Single Woman, in 1993.
In 1993, Simone settled near Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. She had suffered from breast cancer for several years before she died in her sleep at her home in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône on April 21, 2003. (In addition, Simone received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in the late 1980s).[27] Her funeral service was attended by singers Miriam Makeba and Patti Labelle, poet Sonia Sanchez, actor Ossie Davis, and hundreds of others. Elton John sent a floral tribute with the message "You were the greatest and I love you".[28] Simone's ashes were scattered in several African countries. She left behind a daughter, Lisa Celeste Stroud, an actress and singer, who took the stage name Simone, and has appeared on Broadway in Aida.[29]
Musical style[link]
Simone standards[link]
Throughout her career, Simone assembled a collection of songs that would become standards in her repertoire. These songs were self-written tunes, tributes to works by others with a new arrangement by Simone, or songs written especially for Simone. Her first hit song in America was her rendition of George Gershwin's "I Loves You, Porgy" (1958). It peaked at number 18 in the pop singles chart and number 2 on the black singles chart.[30] During that same period Simone recorded "My Baby Just Cares for Me", which would become her biggest success years later, in 1987, when it was featured in a Chanel No. 5 perfume commercial. A music video was created by Aardman Studios for the commercial.[31]
Well known songs from her Philips albums include "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" on Broadway-Blues-Ballads (1964), "I Put a Spell on You", "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (a rendition of a Jacques Brel song) and "Feeling Good" on I Put A Spell On You (1965), "Lilac Wine" and "Wild Is the Wind" on Wild is the Wind (1966).[32] Especially the songs "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Feeling Good", and "Sinnerman" (Pastel Blues, 1965) have great popularity today in terms of cover versions (most notably a version of the former song by The Animals), sample usage, and its use on soundtracks for various movies, TV-series, and video games. "Sinnerman", in particular, has been featured in the TV series Scrubs, Person of Interest, and Sherlock, and on movies such as The Thomas Crown Affair, Miami Vice, and Inland Empire, and sampled by artists such as Talib Kweli and Timbaland. The song "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" was sampled by Devo Springsteen on "Misunderstood" from Common's 2007 album Finding Forever, and by little-known producers Rodnae and Mousa for the song "Don't Get It" on Lil Wayne's 2008 album Tha Carter III. The song "See-Line Woman" was sampled by Kanye West for "Bad News" on his album 808s and Heartbreak.
Simone's years at RCA-Victor spawned a number of singles and album tracks that were popular, particularly in Europe. In 1968, it was "Ain't Got No, I Got Life", a medley from the musical Hair from the album 'Nuff Said! (1968) that became a surprise hit for Simone, reaching number 4 on the UK pop charts and introducing her to a younger audience.[33] In 2006, it returned to the UK Top 30 in a remixed version by Groovefinder. The following single, the Bee Gees' rendition of "To Love Somebody" also reached the UK top 10 in 1969. "House of the Rising Sun" was featured on Nina Simone Sings The Blues in 1967, but Simone had recorded the song in 1961 and it was featured on Nina At The Village Gate (1962), predating the versions by Dave Van Ronk and Bob Dylan.[34][35] It was later covered by The Animals, for whom it became a signature hit.
Performing style[link]
Simone's bearing and stage presence earned her the title "High Priestess of Soul".[citation needed] She was a piano player, singer, and performer, "separately and simultaneously".[16] On stage, Simone moved from gospel to blues, jazz, and folk, to numbers with European classical styling, and Bach-style fugal counterpoint. She incorporated monologues and dialogues with the audience into the program, and often used silence as a musical element.[36] Simone compared it to "mass hypnosis. I use it all the time".[21] Throughout most of her life and recording career she was accompanied by percussionist Leopoldo Fleming and guitarist and musical director Al Schackman.[37]
Simone had a reputation in the music industry for her volatility. In 1995, she shot and wounded her neighbor's son with a pneumatic pistol after his laughter disturbed her concentration.[38] She also fired a gun at a record company executive whom she accused of stealing royalties.[39] According to a biographer, Simone took medication for a condition from the mid-1960s on.[40] All this was only known to a small group of intimates, and kept out of public view for many years, until the biography Break Down And Let It All Out written by Sylvia Hampton and David Nathan revealed this in 2004 after her death.
Legacy and influence[link]
Music[link]
Musicians who have cited Simone as important for their own musical upbringing include Antony and the Johnsons, Nick Cave, Van Morrison, Christina Aguilera, Elkie Brooks, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Kanye West, Lena Horne, Bono, John Legend, Elizabeth Fraser, Cat Stevens, Anna Calvi, Peter Gabriel, Maynard James Keenan, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Mary J. Blige, Michael Gira, Angela McCluskey, Lauryn Hill, Patrice Babatunde, Alicia Keys, Ian MacKaye, Kerry Brothers, Jr. "Krucial", Amanda Palmer, Steve Adey and Jeff Buckley.[17][41][42][43][44] John Lennon cited Simone's version of "I Put a Spell on You" as a source of inspiration for the Beatles song "Michelle".[44] Musicians who have covered her work (or her specific renditions of songs) include Black Rock Coalition Orchestra, J.Viewz, Carola, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Manson, Donny Hathaway, David Bowie, Elkie Brooks, Roberta Flack, Jeff Buckley, Kimbra, The Animals, Nick Cave, Shivaree (band), Ambrosia Parsley, Muse, Cat Power, Katie Melua, Timbaland, Feist, Shara Worden, Common, Lil Wayne, and Michael Bublé. Simone's music has been featured in soundtracks of various motion pictures and video games, including but not limited to, The Big Lebowski (1998), Point of No Return (AKA The Assassin, 1993), Notting Hill (1999), Any Given Sunday (1999), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Six Feet Under (2001), The Dancer Upstairs (film) (2002), Before Sunset (2004), Cellular (2004), Inland Empire (2006), Miami Vice (2006), Sex and the City (2008), The World Unseen (2008), Revolutionary Road (2008), Watchmen (2009), The Saboteur (2009), Repo Men (2010). Frequently her music is used in remixes, commercials, and TV series including Feelin' Good featured prominently in the Season Four Promo of Six Feet Under, 2004.
Film[link]
The documentary Nina Simone: La Legende (The Legend) was made in the 1990s by French filmmakers,[21] based on her autobiography I Put A Spell On You. It features live footage from different periods of her career, interviews with friends and family, various interviews with Simone then living in the Netherlands, and while on a trip to her birthplace. A portion of footage from The Legend was taken from an earlier 26-minute biographical documentary by Peter Rodis, released in 1969 and entitled simply, Nina.[45]
Her filmed 1976 performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival is available on video courtesy of Eagle Rock Entertainment, and it is screened annually in New York City at an event called, "The Rise and Fall of Nina Simone: Montreux, 1976,", which is curated by Tom Blunt.[46]
Plans for a Nina Simone biographical film were released at the end of 2005, to be based on Simone's autobiography I Put A Spell On You (1992) and to focus on her relationship in later life with her assistant, Clifton Henderson, who died in 2006. TV writer Cynthia Mort (Will & Grace, Roseanne) is working on the script, and singer Mary J. Blige will play the lead role. Release of the movie is scheduled for 2012.[47]
Her song "Sinnerman" was used in the 1999 film "The Thomas Crown Affair" as well as the award winning documentary "Sharkwater" by Rob Stewart in 2007.
Her song "I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good" was used in the 1998 film "The Big Lebowski"
Her music was used in the S4C show, "Alys", in 2010.
A song sung by Nina Simone on her 1970 live album, Black Gold, is used in the film The Dancer Upstairs.
In the film Point of No Return, the protagonist choses "Nina" as her codename in honor of Simone, her mother's favorite musical artist as well as her own. Simone's music features prominently in the film.
The final scene of the film Before Sunset involves the protagonists discussing and playing a Nina Simone CD, with one of them singing along with "Just in Time" while imitating the performer's stage moves.
Honors[link]
On Human Kindness Day 1974 in Washington, D.C., more than 10,000 people paid tribute to Nina Simone.[48][49] Simone received two honorary degrees in music and humanities, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Malcolm X College.[50] She preferred to be called "Dr. Nina Simone" after these honors were bestowed upon her.[51] Only two days before her death, Simone was awarded an honorary degree by the Curtis Institute, the music school that had refused to admit her as a student at the beginning of her career.[52] In 2010, Tryon, NC erected a statue in her honor along Trade street.
Discography[link]
| Year | Album | Type | Label | Billboard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Little Girl Blue | Studio | Bethlehem Records | |
| 1959 | Nina Simone and Her Friends | Studio | ||
| The Amazing Nina Simone | Studio | Colpix Records | ||
| Nina Simone at Town Hall | Live and studio | |||
| 1960 | Nina Simone at Newport | Live | 23 (pop) | |
| Forbidden Fruit | Studio | |||
| 1962 | Nina at the Village Gate | Live | ||
| Nina Simone Sings Ellington | Live | |||
| 1963 | Nina's Choice | Compilation | ||
| Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall | Live | |||
| 1964 | Folksy Nina | Live | ||
| Nina Simone in Concert | Live | Philips Records | 102 (pop) | |
| Broadway-Blues-Ballads | Studio | |||
| 1965 | I Put a Spell on You | Studio | 99 (pop) | |
| Pastel Blues | Studio | 8 (black) | ||
| 1966 | Nina Simone with Strings | Studio (strings added) | Colpix | |
| Let It All Out | Live and studio | Philips | 19 (black) | |
| Wild Is the Wind | Studio | 12 (black) | ||
| 1967 | High Priestess of Soul | Studio | 29 (black) | |
| Nina Simone Sings the Blues | Studio | RCA Records | 29 (black) | |
| Silk & Soul | Studio | 24 (black) | ||
| 1968 | Nuff Said | Live and studio | 44 (black) | |
| 1969 | Nina Simone and Piano | Studio | ||
| To Love Somebody | Studio | |||
| A Very Rare Evening | Live | PM Records | ||
| 1970 | Black Gold | Live | RCA Records | 29 (black) |
| 1971 | Here Comes the Sun | Studio | RCA Records | 190 (pop) |
| Gifted & Black | Studio | Canyon Records | ||
| 1972 | Emergency Ward | Live and studio | RCA Records | |
| 1973 | Live at Berkeley | Live | Stroud | |
| Gospel According to Nina Simone | Live | Stroud | ||
| 1974 | It Is Finished | Live | RCA Records | |
| Sings Billie Holiday | Live | Stroud | ||
| 1978 | Baltimore | Studio | CTI Records | 12 (jazz) |
| 1980 | The Rising Sun Collection | Live | Enja | |
| 1982 | Fodder on My Wings | Studio | Carrere | |
| 1984 | Backlash | Live | StarJazz | |
| 1985 | Nina's Back | Studio | VPI | |
| 1985 | Live & Kickin | Live | ||
| 1987 | Let It Be Me | Live | Verve | |
| Live at Ronnie Scott's | Live | Hendring-Wadham | ||
| The Nina Simone Collection | Compilation | Deja Vu | ||
| 1993 | A Single Woman | Studio | Elektra Records | 3 (top jazz) |
| Additional releases | ||||
| 1975 | The Great Show Live in Paris | Live | RCA? | |
| 1997 | Released | Compilation | RCA Victor Europe | |
| 2003 | Gold | Studio remastered | Universal/UCJ | |
| Anthology | Compilation (from many labels) | RCA/BMG Heritage | ||
| 2004 | Nina Simone's Finest Hour | Compilation | Verve/Universal | |
| 2005 | The Soul of Nina Simone | Compilation + DVD | RCA DualDisc | |
| Nina Simone Live at Montreux 1976 | DVD only | Eagle Eye Media | ||
| 2006 | The Very Best of Nina Simone | Compilation | Sony BMG | |
| Remixed and Reimagined | Remix | Legacy/SBMG | 5 (contemp.jazz) | |
| Songs to Sing: the Best of Nina Simone | Compilation/Live Compilation | Deluxe | ||
| Forever Young, Gifted, & Black: Songs of Freedom and Spirit | Remix | RCA | ||
| 2008 | To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story | Compilation | Sony Legacy | |
| 2009 | The Definitive Rarities Collection - 50 Classic Cuts | Compilation | Artwork Media | |
| ? | Nina Simone Live | DVD only: Studio 1961 & '62 | Kultur/Creative Arts Television | |
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Main sites[link]
- Official website
- Nina Simone discography at Discogs
- Nina Simone discography at iMusic.am
- Nina Simone in the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
- Nina Simone at Legacy Recordings
- The Nina Simone Database – comprehensive Nina Simone website
- L'hommage: Nina Simone – tribute and archival site
Reviews and other sites[link]
- Nina Simone at The Music Box – a collection of reviews
- Eunice Waymon-Nina Simone Memorial Project North Carolina-based scholarship, statue & music festival
- Nina Simone Biography at About.com
- Obituary from The Daily Telegraph
- Nina Simone: The "Princess Noire" - audio report by NPR
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| Name | Simone, Nina |
| Alternative names | Waymon, Eunice Kathleen; High Priestess of Soul |
| Short description | Singer, songwriter, pianist |
| Date of birth | February 21, 1933 |
| Place of birth | Tryon, North Carolina, United States |
| Date of death | April 21, 2003 |
| Place of death | Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône, France |
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| Esther Phillips | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Esther Mae Jones |
| Also known as | Little Esther Phillips |
| Born | (1935-12-23)December 23, 1935 Galveston, Texas, United States |
| Died | August 7, 1984(1984-08-07) (aged 48) Carson, California, United States |
| Genres | Pop Country Jazz R&B Soul |
| Occupations | Vocalist |
| Years active | 1950s–1984 |
| Labels | Atlantic Kudu Mercury Lenox |
Esther Phillips (December 23, 1935 – August 7, 1984)[1] was an American singer. Phillips was known for her R&B vocals,[2] but she was a versatile singer, also performing pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music.
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Biography[link]
Early life[link]
Born Esther Mae Jones in Galveston, Texas. When she was an adolescent, her parents divorced, and she was forced to divide her time between her father in Houston and her mother in the Watts area of Los Angeles. Because she was brought up singing in church, she was hesitant to enter a talent contest at a local blues club, but her sister insisted and she complied. A mature singer at age fourteen, she won the amateur talent contest in 1949 at the Barrelhouse Club owned by Johnny Otis. Otis was so impressed that he recorded her for Modern Records and added her to his traveling revue, the California Rhythm and Blues Caravan, billed as 'Little Esther Phillips' (she reportedly took the surname from a gas station sign).[3]
Early career[link]
Her first hit record was "Double Crossing Blues", recorded in 1950 for Savoy Records. After several hit records with Savoy, including her duet with Mel Walker on "Mistrusting Blues", which went to number one that year, as did "Cupid Boogie". Other Phillips records that made it onto the U.S. Billboard R&B chart in 1950 include "Misery" (number 9), "Deceivin' Blues" (number 4), "Wedding Boogie" (number 6), and "Faraway Blues" (number 6). Few female artists, R&B or otherwise, had ever enjoyed such success in their debut year.[4] Phillips left Otis and the Savoy label at the end of 1950 and signed with Federal Records.
But just as quickly as the hits had started, they stopped. Although she recorded more than thirty sides for Federal, only one, "Ring-a-Ding-Doo", charted; the song made it to number 8 in 1952. Not working with Otis was part of her problem; the other part was her drug usage. By the middle of the decade Phillips was chronically addicted to drugs.[5]
In 1954, she returned to Houston to live with her father to recuperate. Short on money, she worked in small nightclubs around the South, punctuated by periodic hospital stays in Lexington, Kentucky, stemming from her addiction. In 1962, Kenny Rogers re-discovered her while singing at a Houston club and got her signed to his brother Lelan’s Lenox label.
Comeback[link]
Phillips ultimately got well enough to launch a comeback in 1962. Now billed as Esther Phillips instead of Little Esther, she recorded a country tune, "Release Me," with producer Bob Gans. This went to number 1 R&B and number 8 on the pop listings. After several other minor R&B hits on Lenox, she was signed by Atlantic Records. Her cover of The Beatles' song "And I Love Him" nearly made the R&B Top Ten in 1965 and the Beatles flew her to the UK for her first overseas performances.[6]
She had other hits in the 1960s on the label like the critically acclaimed Jimmy Radcliffe song "Try Me" that featured the saxophone work of King Curtis and is often mistakenly credited as the James Brown song of the same title, but no more chart toppers, and she waged a battle with heroin dependency. With her addiction worsening, Phillips checked into a rehab facility where she met fellow vocalist Sam Fletcher. While undergoing treatment, she cut some sides for Roulette in 1969, mostly produced by Leland Rogers. On her release, she moved back to Los Angeles and re-signed with the Atlantic label. Her friendship with Sam Fletcher resulted in a late 1969 gig at Freddie Jett's Pied Piper club produced the album Burnin'. She performed with the Johnny Otis Show at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1970.
The 1970s[link]
One of her biggest post-1950s triumphs was in 1972 with her first album for Kudu Records. The song penned by Gil Scott-Heron, "Home Is Where the Hatred Is," - an account of drug use — was lead track on From a Whisper to a Scream which went on to be nominated for a Grammy Award. When Phillips lost to Aretha Franklin, the latter presented the trophy to Phillips, saying she should have won it instead.[7]
Taylor continued to cut albums with her until in 1975, she scored her biggest hit single since "Release Me" with a disco-style update of Dinah Washington's "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes". It reached a high of a Top 20 chart appearance in the U.S., and Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart.[8] On November 8, 1975 she performed the song on an episode of NBC's Saturday Night hosted by Candice Bergen. The accompanying album of the same name became her biggest seller yet, with arranger Joe Beck on guitar, Michael Brecker on tenor sax, David Sanborn on alto sax, and Randy Brecker on trumpet to Steve Khan on guitar and Don Grolnick on keyboards.
She continued to record and perform throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, completing a total of seven albums on Kudu and four with Mercury Records, for whom she signed in 1977. In 1983, she charted for the final time on a tiny independent label, Winning with "Turn Me Out," which reached #85 R&B. She completed recording her final album a few months before her death, but it was not until 1986 that the label (Muse) released the record.
Death[link]
Phillips died at UCLA Medical Center in Carson, California in 1984, at the age of 48 from liver and kidney failure due to drug use.[9] Her funeral services were conducted by Johnny Otis.[10] She was buried in the Morning Light section, at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. The bronze marker recognizes her career achievements, as well as quoting a Bible passage, "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions" -St. John 14:2
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[link]
Phillips has been twice nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and 1987 without getting in.[11]
Grammy nominations[link]
- Career Nominations: 4[12]
| Esther Phillips Grammy Award History | |||||
| Year | Category | Title | Genre | Label | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female | "Set Me Free" | R&B | Atlantic | Nominee |
| 1972 | Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female | "From a Whisper to a Scream" | R&B | Kudu/CTI | Nominee |
| 1973 | Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female | "Alone Again (Naturally)" | R&B | Kudu/CTI | Nominee |
| 1975 | Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female | "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" | R&B | Kudu/CTI | Nominee |
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
| Year | Title | Label | Billboard Chart[13] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Hollerin' and Screaming | Yorkshire | |
| 1963 | Release Me | Lenox | 46 |
| 1965 | And I Love Him! | Atlantic | |
| 1966 | Esther Phillips Sings | ||
| The Country Side of Esther | |||
| 1970 | Live at Freddie Jett's Pied Piper | ||
| Burnin' (Live) | 7 | ||
| 1972 | From a Whisper to a Scream | Kudu/CTI | 16 |
| Alone Again (Naturally) | Kudu/CTI | 15 | |
| 1974 | Black-Eyed Blues | 15 | |
| 1975 | Performance | 27 | |
| Esther Phillips and Joe Beck | 3 | ||
| What a Diff'rence a Day Makes | Kudu/CTI | 13 | |
| 1976 | Capricorn Princess | Kudu/CTI | 23 |
| Confessin' the Blues | Atlantic | 26 | |
| For All We Know | Kudu/CTI | 32 | |
| 1977 | You've Come a Long Way, Baby | Mercury | |
| 1978 | All About Esther | ||
| 1979 | Here's Esther, Are You Ready | 47 | |
| 1981 | Good Black Is Hard to Crack | ||
| 1986 | A Way to Say Goodbye | Muse |
Singles[link]
| Year | Single | Chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US R&B |
US AC |
UK[1] | ||
| 1950 | "Double Crossing Blues"* | - | 1 | - | - |
| "Mistrusting Blues"* | - | 1 | - | - | |
| "Misery"* | - | 9 | - | - | |
| "Cupid Blues"* | - | 1 | - | - | |
| "Deceivin' Blues"* | - | 4 | - | - | |
| "Wedding Boogie"* | - | 6 | - | - | |
| "Far Away Blues (Xmas Blues)"* | - | 6 | - | - | |
| 1952 | "Ring-a-Ding-Doo" | - | 8 | - | - |
| 1962 | "Release Me" | 8 | 1 | - | - |
| 1963 | "I Really Don't Want To Know" | 61 | - | - | - |
| "Am I That Easy To Forget" | 112 | - | - | - | |
| "You Never Miss Your Water (Til the Well Runs Dry)"** | 73 | - | - | - | |
| "If You Want It (I've Got It)"** | 129 | - | - | - | |
| 1965 | "And I Love Him" | 54 | 11 | 14 | - |
| "Moonglow and Theme from Picnic" | 115 | - | 28 | - | |
| "Let Me Know When It's Over" | 129 | - | - | - | |
| 1966 | "When a Woman Loves a Man" | 73 | 26 | - | - |
| 1969 | "Too Late To Worry, Too Blue To Cry" | 121 | 35 | - | - |
| 1970 | "Set Me Free" | 118 | 39 | - | - |
| 1972 | "Home Is Where the Hatred Is" | 122 | 40 | - | - |
| "Baby, I'm For Real" | - | 38 | - | - | |
| "I've Never Found a Man (To Love Me Like You Do)" | 106 | 17 | - | - | |
| 1975 | "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" | 20 | 10 | 29 | 6 |
| 1976 | "For All We Know" | - | 98 | - | - |
| 1983 | "Turn Me Out" | - | 85 | - | - |
N.B. * with Johnny Otis Orchestra ** with Big Al Downing.
All Little Esther Federal singles:
(All released on 45 rpm and 78 rpm records)
1951
Federal 12016 - "The Deacon Moves In" (with the Dominoes)/"Other Lips, Other Arms"
Federal 12023 - "I'm A Bad, Bad Girl"/"Don't Make A Fool Out Of Me"
Federal 12036 - "Lookin' For A Man To Satisfy My Soul"/"Heart To Heart" (with the Dominoes)
Federal 12042 - "Cryin' And Singin' The Blues"/"Tell Him That I Need Him"
1952
Federal 12055 - "Ring-A-Ding-Doo" (with Bobby Nunn)/"The Cryin' Blues"
Federal 12063 - "Summertime"/"The Storm"
Federal 12065 - "Better Beware"/"I'll Be There"
Federal 12078 - "Aged And Mellow"/"Bring My Lovin' Back To Me"
Federal 12090 - "Ramblin' Blues"/"Somebody New"
Federal 12100 - "Mainliner" (with 4 Jacks)/"Saturday Night Daddy" (with Bobby Nunn)
1953
Federal 12108 - "Last Laugh Blues" (with Little Willie Littlefield)/"Flesh, Blood And Bones"
Federal 12115 - "Turn The Lamp Down Low" (with Little Willie Littlefield)/"Hollerin' And Screamin'
Federal 12122 - "You Took My Love Too Fast" (with Bobby Nunn)/"Street Lights"
Federal 12126 - "Hound Dog"/"Sweet Lips"
Federal 12142 - "Cherry Wine"/"Love Oh Love"
(Taken from the original defunct Federal Records log books which I copied decades ago)
Filmography[link]
- Television
- 1965: The Music of Lennon & McCartney, musical guest[14]
- 1970: The Barbara McNair Show, musical guest[15]
- 1970: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, musical guest
- 1975: Saturday Night Live, musical guest
References[link]
- ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 425. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ Santelli, Robert The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia, Penguin Books, page 376, (2001) - ISBN 0-14-015939-8
- ^ Freeland, David. Ladies of Soul, University Press of Mississippi, page xxiii, (2001) - ISBN 1-57806-331-0
- ^ Santelli, Robert. The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia, page 376
- ^ Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Guinness, page 3246, (1995) - ISBN 1-56159-176-9
- ^ Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr. The Beatles Anthology By Beatles, Chronicle Books, page 196, (2000) - ISBN 0-8118-2684-8
- ^ O'Neal, Jim. The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine, Routledge, page 376, (2002) - ISBN 0-415-93653-5
- ^ Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Guinness, page 3247
- ^ Blues Singer Esther Phillips dead at 48 Baltimore Afro-American - Aug 4, 1984
- ^ O'Neal, Jim. The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine, page 376
- ^ "Complete list of nominees and inductees to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame". 2007. http://www.superseventies.com/faq_rockrollhalloffame.html. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
- ^ Grammy Award History for Esther Phillips
- ^ Billboard Albums
- ^ The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965)
- ^ Television Appearances
External links[link]
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| Name | Phillips, Esther |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | American R&B singer |
| Date of birth | December 23, 1935 |
| Place of birth | Galveston, Texas, United States |
| Date of death | August 7, 1984 |
| Place of death | Carson, California, United States |
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Maxine Weldon was an American soul and jazz singer.
Weldon recorded two full-lengths in 1970-71, with members of The Jazz Crusaders playing as session musicians on the album.[1] She followed these with Some Singin in 1974, which became her best-selling record, reaching #48 on the Billboard R&B albums chart.[2] Her last full-length was issued in 1975. In the 1980s and 1990s she performed frequently but did not record; in 1995-1997 she performed in the Broadway production of Black and Blue and later in the 1990s toured with Linda Hopkins.[1]
Discography[link]
- Right On (Mainstream Records, 1970)
- Chilly Wind (Mainstream, 1971)
- Some Singin (Monument Records, 1974)
- Alone on My Own (Monument, 1975)
References[link]
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| Name | Weldon, Maxine |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | American singer |
| Date of birth | |
| Place of birth | |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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- For the Canadian radio personality with the same name, see Billie Holiday (broadcaster)
| Billie Holiday | |
|---|---|
 Portrait from Down Beat magazine, ca. February 1947 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Eleanora Harris [1] |
| Also known as | Lady Day |
| Born | (1915-04-07)April 7, 1915 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Origin | Harlem, New York, United States |
| Died | July 17, 1959(1959-07-17) (aged 44) New York City, New York, United States |
| Genres | Vocal jazz, jazz blues, torch songs, swing, blues |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, actress |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1933–1959 |
| Labels | Brunswick, Vocalion, Okeh, Bluebird, Commodore, Capitol, Decca, Aladdin, Verve, Columbia, MGM |
| Associated acts | Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Carmen McRae |
| Website | Billie Holiday Official Site |
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris[1][2] April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
Critic John Bush wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop vocals forever."[3] She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", "Fine and Mellow", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing "Easy Living", "Good Morning Heartache", and "Strange Fruit", a protest song which became one of her standards and was made famous with her 1939 recording.
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Early life and education[link]
Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan (née Harris). Her father, Clarence Halliday (Holiday), a musician, did not marry or live with her mother. Her mother had moved to Philadelphia when thirteen, after being ejected from her parents' home in Sandtown-Winchester, Baltimore for becoming pregnant. With no support from her own parents, Holiday's mother arranged for the young Holiday to stay with her older married half sister, Eva Miller, who lived in Baltimore.[4]
Billie Holiday had a difficult childhood, her mother often took what were then known as "transportation jobs", serving on the passenger railroads. Holiday was left to be raised largely by Eva Miller's mother-in-law, Martha Miller, and suffered from her mother's absences and leaving her in others' care for much of the first ten years of her life.[5] (Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, first published in 1956, was sketchy about details of her early life, but much was confirmed by Stuart Nicholson in his 1995 biography of the singer.)[citation needed]
Some historians have disputed Holiday's paternity, as a copy of her birth certificate in the Baltimore archives lists the father as "Frank DeViese". Other historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker.[6] Frank DeViese lived in Philadelphia and Sadie Harris may have known him through her work.
Sadie Harris, then known as Sadie Fagan, married Philip Gough, but the marriage was over in two years. Holiday was left with Martha Miller again while her mother took further transportation jobs.[7] Holiday frequently skipped school and her truancy resulted in her being brought before the juvenile court on January 5, 1925 when she was not yet 10. She was sent to The House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic reform school. She was baptized there on March 19, 1925 and after nine months in care, was "paroled" on October 3, 1925 to her mother, who had opened a restaurant called the East Side Grill, where she and Holiday worked long hours. By the age of 11, the girl had dropped out of school.[8]
Holiday's mother returned to their home on December 24, 1926, to discover a neighbor, Wilbur Rich, raping Holiday. Rich was arrested. Officials placed the girl at the House of the Good Shepherd in protective custody as a state witness in the rape case.[9] Holiday was released in February 1927, nearly twelve. Holiday and her mother later lived with and worked for a madam. Shortly after working as prostitutes, both Holiday and her mother were arrested. They were released after a short stint in prison.[10] During this time, Holiday first heard the records of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith. By the end of 1928, Holiday's mother decided to try her luck in Harlem, New York and left Holiday again with Martha Miller.[11]
Early singing career[link]
During her final period of separation from her mother, Holiday began to perform the songs she learned while working in the brothel. By early 1929, Holiday joined her mother in Harlem. Their landlady was a sharply dressed woman named Florence Williams, who ran a whorehouse at 151 West 140th Street. Holiday's mother became a prostitute and, within a matter of days of arriving in New York, Holiday, who had not yet turned fourteen, also became a prostitute for $5 a time.[12] On May 2, 1929, the house was raided, and Holiday and her mother were sent to prison. After spending some time in a workhouse, her mother was released in July, followed by Holiday in October, at the age of 14.
Holiday took her professional pseudonym from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and the musician Clarence Holiday, her probable father.[13] At the outset of her career, she spelled her last name Halliday, the birth-surname of her father, but eventually changed it to Holiday, his performing name. The young singer teamed up with a neighbor, tenor sax player Kenneth Hollan. From 1929 to 1931, they were a team, performing at clubs such as the Grey Dawn, Pod's and Jerry's, and the Brooklyn Elks' Club.[14][15] Benny Goodman recalled hearing Holiday in 1931 at The Bright Spot. As her reputation grew, Holiday played at many clubs, including Mexico's and The Alhambra Bar and Grill where Charles Linton, a vocalist who later worked with Chick Webb, first met her. It was also during this period that she connected with her father, who was playing with Fletcher Henderson's band.[16]
By the end of 1932 at the age of 17, Billie Holiday replaced the singer Monette Moore at a club called Covan's on West 132nd Street. The producer John Hammond, who loved Monette Moore's singing and had come to hear her, first heard Holiday in early 1933.[17] Hammond arranged for Holiday to make her recording debut, at age 18, in November 1933 with Benny Goodman, singing two songs: "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" and "Riffin' the Scotch", the latter being her first hit. "Son-in-Law" sold 300 copies,[18] but "Riffin' the Scotch," released on November 11, sold 5,000 copies. Hammond was quite impressed by Holiday's singing style. He said of her, "Her singing almost changed my music tastes and my musical life, because she was the first girl singer I'd come across who actually sang like an improvising jazz genius." Hammond compared Holiday favorably to Armstrong and said she had a good sense of lyric content at her young age.[19]
In 1935, Billie Holiday had a small role as a woman being abused by her lover in Duke Ellington's short Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. In her scene, she sang the song "Saddest Tale."[20]
Recordings with Teddy Wilson (1935–1938)[link]
Holiday was signed to Brunswick Records by John Hammond to record current pop tunes with Teddy Wilson in the new "swing" style for the growing jukebox trade. They were given free rein to improvise the material. Holiday's improvisation of the melody line to fit the emotion was revolutionary. Their first collaboration included "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," and "Miss Brown To You." The record label did not favor the recording session, because producers wanted Holiday to sound more like Cleo Brown. After "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" garnered success, however, the company began considering Holiday an artist in her own right.[21] She began recording under her own name a year later (on the 35 cent Vocalion label), producing a series of extraordinary performances with groups comprising the swing era's finest musicians.[22]
With their arrangements, Wilson and Holiday took pedestrian pop tunes, such as "Twenty-Four Hours a Day" (#6 Pop) or "Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town", and turned them into jazz classics. Most of Holiday's recordings with Wilson or under her own name during the 1930s and early 1940s are regarded as important parts of the jazz vocal library. She was then in her early to late 20s.
Another frequent accompanist was the tenor saxophonist Lester Young, who had been a boarder at her mother's house in 1934 and with whom Holiday had a special rapport. He said,
"Well, I think you can hear that on some of the old records, you know. Some time I'd sit down and listen to 'em myself, and it sound like two of the same voices, if you don't be careful, you know, or the same mind, or something like that."[23]
Young nicknamed her "Lady Day", and she, in turn, dubbed him "Prez".
Hammond spoke about the commercial impact of the Teddy Wilson-Billie Holiday sides from 1935 to 1938, calling them a great asset to Brunswick. The record label, according to Hammond, was broke and unable to record many jazz tunes. Because Wilson, Holiday, Lester Young, and other musicians came into the studio without any arrangements, which cost money, and improvised the material as they went along, the records they produced were very cheap. Holiday was never given any royalties for her work, instead being paid a flat fee, which saved the record label money. Some of the records produced were largely successful, such as the single "I Cried for You" which sold 15,000 copies. Hammond said of the record, "15,000 ... was a giant hit for Brunswick in those days. I mean a giant hit. Most records that made money sold around three to four thousand." [24]
Working for Count Basie and Artie Shaw (1937–1938)[link]
In late 1937, Holiday had a brief stint as a big band vocalist with Count Basie.[25] The traveling conditions of the band were often poor and included one-nighters in clubs, moving from city to city with little stability. Holiday chose the songs she sang and had a hand in the arrangements, choosing to portray her then developing persona of a woman unlucky in love. Her tunes included "I Must Have That Man", "Travelin' All Alone", "I Can't Get Started", and "Summertime", a hit for Holiday in 1936, originating in the opera Porgy and Bess a few years earlier. Count Basie had gotten use to Holiday's heavy involvement in the band. He said, "When she rehearsed with the band, it was really just a matter of getting her tunes like she wanted them, because she knew how she wanted to sound and you couldn't tell her what to do." [26]
Holiday found herself in direct competition with popular singer Ella Fitzgerald, with whom Holiday would later become friends.[27] Fitzgerald was the vocalist for the Chick Webb Band, who were in competition with Count Basie. On Jan 16, 1938, in the same day Benny Goodman performed his legendary Carnegie Hall jazz concert, the Count Basie and Chick Webb bands had a battle at the Savoy Ballroom. Chick Webb and Fitzgerald were declared winners by Metronome magazine. Downbeat magazine declared Holiday and Basie the winners. A straw poll of the audience saw Fitzgerald win by a three-to-one margin.
Some of the tunes Holiday performed with Basie were recorded. "I Can't Get Started", "They Can't Take That Away from Me," and "Swing It Brother Swing," are all commercially available.[28] Although Holiday was unable to record in the studio with Count Basie, she did include many of his musicians in her recording dates with Teddy Wilson.
By February of that year, Holiday was no longer singing for Basie. The reason given for her firing varies from person to person. Jimmy Rushing, Basie's male vocalist, called her unprofessional. According to All Music Guide, Holiday was officially fired for being "temperamental and unreliable". Holiday complained of low pay and working conditions and may have refused to sing the tunes requested of her or change her style.[29]
Holiday was hired by Artie Shaw a month after being fired from the Count Basie Band. This association placed her among the first black women to work with a white orchestra, an unusual arrangement for the times. In situations where there was a lot of racial tension, Shaw was known to stick up for his vocalist. Holiday describes one incident in her autobiography where she could not sit on the bandstand with other vocalists because she was black. Shaw said to her, "I want you on the band stand like Helen Forrest, Tony Pastor and everyone else." [30] When touring the American South, Holiday would sometimes be heckled by members of the audience. In Louisville, Kentucky a man called her a "nigger wench" and requested she sing another song. Holiday lost her temper and needed to be escorted off the stage.[31]
By March 1938, Shaw and Holiday managed to be broadcasted on Radio WABC. Because of their success, they were given an extra time slot to broadcast in April, which increased their exposure. The New York Amsterdam News reported an improvement in Holiday's performance ability while reviewing the broadcasts. Metronome reported that the addition of Holiday to Shaw's band put it in the "top brackets". Holiday could not sing as often during Artie Shaw's shows as she could Basie's. The songs were more instrumental with fewer vocals. Shaw was also pressured to hire a white singer, Nita Bradley, who Holiday did not get along with but had to share a bandstand. In May 1938, Shaw won band battles against Tommy Dorsey and Red Norvo with the audience favoring Holiday. Although Shaw admired Holiday's singing in his band, saying she had a "remarkable ear" and an "remarkable sense of time", her time in the band was nearing an end.[32]
In November 1938 Holiday was asked to use the service elevator at the Lincoln Hotel, instead of the passage elevator, because white patrons of the hotels complained. This may have been the last straw for her. She left the band shortly after. Holiday spoke about the incident weeks later, saying "I was never allowed to visit the bar or the dining room as did other members of the band ... [and] I was made to leave and enter through the kitchen."
There are no surviving live recordings of Holiday with Artie Shaw's band. Because she was under a separate recording label and possibly because of her race, Holiday was only able to record one record with Shaw, "Any Old Time".
By the late 1930s, Billie Holiday had toured with Count Basie and Artie Shaw, scored a string of radio and retail hits with Teddy Wilson, and became an established artist in the recording industry. Her songs "What A Little Moonlight Can Do" and "Easy Living" were being imitated by singers across America and were quickly becoming jazz standards.[33] In 1938, Holiday's single "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart" ranked 6th as the most-played song for September of that year. Her record label Vocalion listed the single as its fourth best seller for the same month. "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart" peaked at number 2 on the pop charts according to Joel Whitburn's "Pop Memories: 1890–1954" book.[34]
Commodore recordings and mainstream success (1939)[link]
Holiday was recording for Columbia in the late 1930s when she was introduced to "Strange Fruit", a song based on a poem about lynching written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx. Meeropol used the pseudonym "Lewis Allan" for the poem, which was set to music and performed at teachers' union meetings.[35] It was eventually heard by Barney Josephson, proprietor of Café Society, an integrated nightclub in Greenwich Village, who introduced it to Holiday. She performed it at the club in 1939, with some trepidation, fearing possible retaliation. Holiday later said that the imagery in "Strange Fruit" reminded her of her father's death and that this played a role in her resistance to performing it.[36]
When Holiday's producers at Columbia found the subject matter too sensitive, Milt Gabler agreed to record it for his Commodore Records. That was done on April 20, 1939, and "Strange Fruit" remained in her repertoire for twenty years. She later recorded it again for Verve. While the Commodore release did not get any airplay, the controversial song sold well, though Gabler attributed that mostly to the record's other side, "Fine and Mellow", which was a jukebox hit.[37] "The version I did for Commodore," Holiday said of "Strange Fruit", "became my biggest selling record."[citation needed] "Strange Fruit" was the equivalent of a top twenty hit in the 1930s.
For her performance of "Strange Fruit" at the Café Society, she had waiters silence the crowd when the song began. During the song's long introduction, the lights dimmed and all movement had to cease. As Holiday began singing, only a small spotlight of light illuminated her face. On the final note, all lights in the club went out and when they came back on, Holiday was gone.[38]
Holiday said her father Clarence Holiday was denied treatment for a fatal lung disorder because of prejudice and that singing "Strange Fruit" reminded her of the incident. "It reminds me of how Pop died, but I have to keep singing it, not only because people ask for it, but because twenty years after Pop died the things that killed him are still happening in the South," she said in her autobiography.[39]
Holiday's popularity increased after recording "Strange Fruit". She received a mention in Time magazine.[40] "I open Café Society as an unknown," Holiday said. "I left two years later as a star. I needed the prestige and publicity all right, but you can't pay rent with it." Holiday demanded her manager Joe Glaser give her a raise shortly after.[41]
Holiday soon returned to Commodore in 1944, recording songs she made with Teddy Wilson in the 1930s like "I Cover The Waterfront", "I'll Get By", and "He's Funny That Way". She also recorded new songs that were popular at the time, including, "My Old Flame", "How Am I To Know?", "I'm Yours", and "I'll Be Seeing You", a Bing Crosby number one hit. She also recorded her version of "Embraceable You", which would later be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005.
During her time at Commodore, Billie Holiday also babysat the young Billy Crystal; his father being Jack Crystal and uncle being Milt Gabler, the co-founders of Commodore Records.[42]
Successes (1940–1947)[link]
Holiday's mother Sadie Fagan, nicknamed "The Duchess," started her own restaurant called Mom Holiday's. Fagan used the money her daughter earned while shooting dice with members of the Count Basie band, whom she was on tour with in the late 1930s. "It kept mom busy and happy and stopped her from worrying and watching over me," Holiday said. Soon, Fagan began borrowing large amounts of money from Holiday because the restaurant wasn't turning a profit. Holiday obliged, but soon fell upon hard times herself. "I needed some money one night and I knew Mom was sure to have some," Holiday said. "So I walked in the restaurant like a stockholder and asked. Mom turned me down flat. She wouldn't give me a cent." The two argued and then, Holiday, in a rage, hollered "God bless the child that's got his own," and stormed out of the restaurant. With help from Arthur Herzog, Jr., a pianist, the two wrote a song based on the line "God Bless the Child" and added music.[43]
"God Bless the Child" became Holiday's most popular and covered record. It reached number 25 on the record charts in 1941 and ranked third in Billboard's top songs of the year, selling over a million records.[44][45] In 1976, the song was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame.[46] Herzog later claimed that Holiday contributed little to the lyrics of her music, adding only a few lines. He also stated that Holiday came up with the line "God Bless the Child" from a dinner conversation the two had.[47]
On June 24, 1942, Holiday recorded "Trav'lin Light" with Paul Whiteman. Because she was still under contract with Columbia records, she couldn't release the song under her own name and instead used the pseudonym "Lady Day."[48] The song was a minor success on the pop charts, reaching number 23, but hit number one on the R&B charts, which were called the Harlem Hit Parade at the time.[49]
In September 1943, Life magazine complimented Holiday on her work. They wrote, "she has the most distinct style of any popular vocalist and is imitated by other vocalists."[50]
Milt Gabler eventually became an A&R man for Decca Records, in addition to owning Commodore Records, and he signed Holiday to the label on August 7, 1944, when Holiday was 29.[51] Her first recording for Decca was "Lover Man" (#16 Pop, #5 R&B), one of her biggest hits. The success and wide distribution of the song made Holiday a staple in the pop community, allowing her to have her own solo concerts, a rarity for jazz singers in the late 40s. Gabler commented on the song's success, saying, "I made Billie a real pop singer. That was right in her. Billie loved those songs."[52] Jimmy Davis and Roger "Ram" Ramirez, "Lover Man"'s songwriters, tried to get Holiday interested in recording the song in 1941, but she didn't take interest.[53] In 1943, a flamboyant male torch singer by the name of Willie Dukes began singing "Lover Man" on 52nd Street.[54] Because of Duke's success with the song, Holiday decided to add it to her live shows. The song's B-side is "No More", a song Holiday considered one of her favorites.[51]
When it came time to record the song, Holiday begged Gabler for strings, which were associated with big name acts like Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, to accompany her in the background. "I went on my knees to him," Holiday said. "I didn't want to do it with the ordinary six pieces. I begged Milt and told him I had to have strings behind me."[55] On October 4, 1944, Holiday walked into the recording studio to record "Lover Man" and saw the string ensemble and walked out. The musical director for the session, Toots Camarata said she was overwhelmed with joy.[55] Another reason for Holiday wanting to use strings may have been to dodge the comparisons made between her commercially successful early work with Teddy Wilson and everything produced afterward. Her 1930s sides with Wilson used a small jazz combo. Her recordings with Decca often involved string ensembles and presented her voice in a new light.[56]
A month later, in November, Billie Holiday returned to the Decca studio to record three songs, "That Ole Devil Called Love", "Big Stuff", and "Don't Explain". Holiday wrote "Don't Explain" after she caught her husband, Jimmy Monroe, with lipstick on his collar.[57]
After the recording session, Holiday did not return to the studio until August 1945. She recorded "Don't Explain", "Big Stuff", "What Is This Thing Called Love?", and "You Better Go Now". Ella Fitzgerald declared "You Better Go Now" as her favorite Billie Holiday recording.[58] "Big Stuff" and "Don't Explain" were recorded again but with additional strings and a viola.
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In 1946, Holiday recorded "Good Morning Heartache". Although the song failed to chart, it remained a staple in her live shows with three known live recordings of the song.[59]
In September 1946, Holiday began work on what would be her only major film New Orleans. She starred opposite Louis Armstrong and Woody Herman. Plagued by racism and McCarthyism, producer Jules Levey and script writer Herbert Biberman were pressured to lessen Holiday and Armstrong's role in the film as to not give the impression that black people created jazz. Their attempts failed because in 1947 Biberman was listed as one of the Hollywood Ten and sent to jail.[60]
Holiday was not pleased that her role was reduced to that of a maid: "I thought I was going to play myself in it," she said. "I thought I was going to be Billie Holiday doing a couple of songs in a nightclub setting and that would be that. I should have known better. When I saw the script, I did."[citation needed] Before filming, Holiday was assigned a dramatic coach who coached her on how to properly say "Miss Marylee", the lead character's name. "So this coach was trying to get the right kind of tom feeling into this thing," Holiday said.[citation needed] At one point, after feeling cornered and unable to walk off the set, she burst out into tears. Louis Armstrong tried comforting her. "Better look out," he said. "I know Lady, and when she starts crying, the next thing she's going to do is start fighting."[citation needed] Several scenes were deleted from the film. "They had taken miles of footage of music and scenes," Holiday said, "[and] none of it was left in the picture. And very damn little of me. I know I wore a white dress for a number I did... and that was cut out of the picture."[61] She recorded the track "The Blues Are Brewin'", for the film's soundtrack. Other songs included in the movie are "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" and "Farewell to Storyville".
Holiday's drug addictions were a growing problem on the set. She earned more than a thousand dollars a week from her club ventures at the time, but spent most of it on heroin. Her lover Joe Guy traveled to Hollywood while Holiday was filming and supplied her with drugs. When discovered by Joe Glaser, Holiday's manager, Guy was banned from the set.[62]
By the late 1940s, Holiday had begun recording a number of slow, sentimental ballads. The magazine Metronome expressed its concerns in 1946 about "Good Morning Heartache," saying "there's a danger that Billie's present formula will wear thin, but up to now it's wearing well."[38] The New York Herald Tribune reported on a Holiday concert in 1946 that her performance had little variation in the melody of her songs, with no change in tempo.[63]
Legal troubles, Carnegie Hall Concert (1947–1952)[link]
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On May 16, 1947, Holiday was arrested for the possession of narcotics in her New York apartment. On May 27, 1947, she was in court. "It was called 'The United States of America versus Billie Holiday'. And that's just the way it felt," Holiday recalled.[64] During the trial, Holiday received notice that her lawyer was not interested in coming down to the trial and representing her. "In plain English that meant no one in the world was interested in looking out for me," Holiday said. Dehydrated and unable to hold down any food, she pled guilty and asked to be sent to the hospital. The D.A. spoke up in her defense, saying, "If your honor please, this is a case of a drug addict, but more serious, however, than most of our cases, Miss Holiday is a professional entertainer and among the higher rank as far as income was concerned." By 1947, Holiday was at her commercial peak, having made a quarter of a million dollars in the three years prior.[65] Holiday placed second in the Down Beat poll for 1946 and 1947, her highest ranking in the poll.[66] In Billboard's July 6 issue on 1947, Holiday ranked 5 on its annual college poll of "girl singers". Jo Stafford topped the poll.[67] In 1946, Holiday won the Metronome Magazine popularity poll.[68]
At the end of the trial, Holiday was sentenced to Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia, more popularly known as "Camp Cupcake". Other notable celebrities to serve time at Alderson are Martha Stewart, Sara Jane Moore (who tried to assassinate President Ford), and Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme of the Charles Manson family of murderers.[69]
Luckily for Holiday, she was released early (March 16, 1948) because of good behavior. When she arrived at Newark, her pianist Bobby Tucker and her dog Mister were waiting for her. The dog leaped at Holiday, knocking off her hat, and tackled her to the ground. "He began lapping me and loving me like crazy," she said. A woman overheard the commotion and thought the dog was attacking Holiday. She started screaming and soon a crowd gathered and then the press showed up. "I might just as well have wheeled into Penn Station and had a quiet little get-together with the Associated Press, United Press, and International News Service," Holiday said.[citation needed]
Ed Fishman (who fought with Joe Glaser to be Holiday's manager) thought of the idea to throw a comeback concert at Carnegie Hall. Holiday hesitated, unsure whether audiences were ready to accept her after the arrest. She eventually gave in, and agreed to the concert.
On March 27, 1948, Holiday played Carnegie Hall to a sold-out crowd. There were 2,700 tickets sold in advance, a record at the time for the venue. Her popularity at the time was unusual in that she didn't have a current hit record.[70] Holiday's last song to chart was "Lover Man" in 1945, which would be her final placement on the record charts during her lifetime. Holiday did 32 songs at the Carnegie concert by her count, some of which included Cole Porter's "Night and Day" and her 30s hit "Strange Fruit". During the show, someone sent Holiday a box of gardenias. "My old trademark," Holiday said. "I took them out of box and fastened them smack to the side of my head without even looking twice." There was a hatpin in the gardenias and Holiday, unknowingly, stuck the needle deep into the side of her head. "I didn't feel anything until the blood started rushing down in my eyes and ears," she said. After the third curtain call, Holiday passed out.[71]
On April 27, 1948, Bob Sylvester and her promoter Al Wilde arranged for Billie Holiday to do a Broadway show. Titled Holiday on Broadway, it sold out and was a success for a while. "The regular music critics and drama critics came and treated us like we were legit," Holiday said. Despite the success, the show closed after three weeks.[72]
Holiday was arrested again on January 22, 1949, inside her room at San Francisco's Hotel Mark Twain.
Holiday stated that she began using hard drugs in the early 1940s. She married trombonist Jimmy Monroe on August 25, 1941. While still married to Monroe, she became romantically involved with trumpeter Joe Guy, who was also her drug dealer, and she eventually became his common-law wife. She finally divorced Monroe in 1947 and also split with Guy.
In October 1949, Holiday recorded "Crazy He Calls Me", which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2010. Gabler said the song was a hit, likely making it her most successful recording for Decca after "Lover Man". The record charts of the 1940s did not list songs outside the top 30, making it impossible to recognize minor pop hits. Also, by the late 1940s, despite her popularity and concert drawing power, Holiday's singles received little radio airplay. This may have been because of the bad reputation she had up to that point.[73]
Because of her 1947 conviction, Holiday's New York City Cabaret Card was revoked, which kept her from working anywhere that sold alcohol for the remaining 12 years of her life.
The Cabaret system started in 1940 and was designed to prevent people of "bad character" from working on licensed premises. A performer had to renew his or her license every two years. This system lasted until 1967.[74] Clubs that sold alcohol in New York were among the highest paying venues in the country. Club owners knew blacklisted performers had limited work options, so they would offer them a smaller salary. This greatly reduced Holiday's earning power. She hadn't been receiving proper royalties for her work until she signed with Decca, so her main source of revenue were her club concerts. The problem worsened when Holiday's records went out of print in the 1950s. She seldom received any money from royalties in her latter years. For instance, in 1958 Holiday received a royalty check of only 11 dollars.[75][76] Also, Holiday's lawyer during the late 1950s, Earle Warren Zaidins, failed to register with BMI on all but two songs she had written or co-written, costing her potential revenue.[77]
In 1948, Holiday played at the Ebony Club, which, because she lost her cabaret card, was against the law. Her manager at the time, John Levy, was convinced he could get her card back and allowed her to open without one. "I opened scared," Holiday said, "[I was] expecting the cops to come in any chorus and carry me off. But nothing happened. I was a huge success."[78]
Also in 1948, Holiday recorded Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy". The single was heard by up and coming act Nina Simone. Simone covered the tune 1958, and it ended up becoming her sole top 40 hit in America.[79]
In 1950, Holiday appeared in the Universal-International short film 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet, where she sang "God Bless the Child" and "Now, Baby or Never".[80]
[edit] Lady Sings The Blues (1952–1959)
By the 1950s, Holiday's drug abuse, drinking, and relationships with abusive men caused her health to deteriorate. She appeared on the ABC reality series The Comeback Story to discuss attempts to overcome her misfortunes. Her later recordings showed the effects of declining health on her voice, as it grew coarse and no longer projected its former vibrancy.
On March 28, 1957, Holiday married Louis McKay, a Mafia enforcer, who like most of the men in her life was abusive,[81] but he did try to get her off drugs. They were separated at the time of her death, but McKay had plans to start a chain of Billie Holiday vocal studios, à la Arthur Murray dance schools.
Holiday's late recordings on Verve constitute about a third of her commercial recorded legacy and are as popular as her earlier work for the Columbia, Commodore and Decca labels. In later years, her voice became more fragile, but it never lost the edge that had always made it so distinctive.
Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, was ghostwritten by William Dufty and published in 1956. Dufty, a New York Post writer and editor then married to Holiday's close friend Maely Dufty, wrote the book quickly from a series of conversations with the singer in the Duftys' 93rd Street apartment. He drew on the work of earlier interviewers as well and intended to let Holiday tell her story in her own way.[82]
To accompany her autobiography, Holiday released an LP in June 1956 titled Lady Sings the Blues. The album did not have any new material other than the title track, "Too Marvelous For Words", "Willow Weep for Me", and "I Thought About You", but had new recordings of Holiday's biggest hits. These included "Trav'lin' Light" "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless the Child".[83] On December 22, 1956, Billboard magazine reviewed Lady Sings the Blues, calling it a worthy musical complement to her autobiography. "Holiday is in good voice now," said the reviewer, "and these new readings will be much appreciated by her following." "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless the Child" were called classics, and "Good Morning Heartache", another reissued track in the LP, was also noted positively.[84]
On November 10, 1956, Holiday performed two concerts before packed audiences at Carnegie Hall, a major accomplishment for any artist, especially a black artist of the segregated period of American history. Live recordings of the second Carnegie Hall concert were released on a Verve/HMV album in the UK in late 1961 called The Essential Billie Holiday. The thirteen tracks included on this album featured her own songs, "I Love My Man", "Don't Explain" and "Fine And Mellow", together with other songs closely associated with her, including "Body and Soul", "My Man", and "Lady Sings the Blues" (her lyrics accompanied a tune by pianist Herbie Nichols).[85]
The liner notes on this album were written partly by Gilbert Millstein of The New York Times, who, according to these notes, served as narrator in the Carnegie Hall concerts. Interspersed among Holiday's songs, Millstein read aloud four lengthy passages from her autobiography Lady Sings The Blues. He later wrote:
The narration began with the ironic account of her birth in Baltimore – 'Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three' – and ended, very nearly shyly, with her hope for love and a long life with 'my man' at her side.
Millstein continued:
It was evident, even then, that Miss Holiday was ill. I had known her casually over the years and I was shocked at her physical weakness. Her rehearsal had been desultory; her voice sounded tinny and trailed off; her body sagged tiredly. But I will not forget the metamorphosis that night. The lights went down, the musicians began to play and the narration began. Miss Holiday stepped from between the curtains, into the white spotlight awaiting her, wearing a white evening gown and white gardenias in her black hair. She was erect and beautiful; poised and smiling. And when the first section of narration was ended, she sang – with strength undiminished – with all of the art that was hers. I was very much moved. In the darkness, my face burned and my eyes. I recall only one thing. I smiled."[86]
The critic Nat Hentoff of Down Beat magazine, who attended the Carnegie Hall concert, wrote the remainder of the sleeve notes on the 1961 album. He wrote of Holiday's performance:
Throughout the night, Billie was in superior form to what had sometimes been the case in the last years of her life. Not only was there assurance of phrasing and intonation; but there was also an outgoing warmth, a palpable eagerness to reach and touch the audience. And there was mocking wit. A smile was often lightly evident on her lips and her eyes as if, for once, she could accept the fact that there were people who did dig her.
Hentoff continued:
The beat flowed in her uniquely sinuous, supple way of moving the story along; the words became her own experiences; and coursing through it all was Lady's sound – a texture simultaneously steel-edged and yet soft inside; a voice that was almost unbearably wise in disillusion and yet still childlike, again at the centre. The audience was hers from before she sang, greeting her and saying good-bye with heavy, loving applause. And at one time, the musicians too applauded. It was a night when Billie was on top, undeniably the best and most honest jazz singer alive.
Her performance of "Fine and Mellow" on CBS's The Sound of Jazz program is memorable for her interplay with her long-time friend Lester Young. Both were less than two years from death.
Holiday first toured Europe in 1954 as part of a Leonard Feather package that also included Buddy DeFranco and Red Norvo. When she returned almost five years later, she made one of her last television appearances for Granada's Chelsea at Nine in London. Her final studio recordings were made for MGM in 1959, with lush backing from Ray Ellis and his Orchestra, who had also accompanied her on Columbia's Lady in Satin album the previous year—see below. The MGM sessions were released posthumously on a self-titled album, later re-titled and re-released as Last Recordings.
Although childless, Billie Holiday had two godchildren: singer Billie Lorraine Feather, daughter of Leonard Feather, and Bevan Dufty, son of William Dufty.[82]
Death[link]
In early 1959 she found out that she had cirrhosis of the liver. The doctor told her to stop drinking, which she did for a short time, but soon returned to heavy drinking.[87] By May she had lost twenty pounds. Friends Leonard Feather, Joe Glaser, and Allan Morrison tried to get her to check into a hospital, but she put them off.[88]
On May 31, 1959, Holiday was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York suffering from liver and heart disease. She was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying, and her hospital room was raided by authorities.[82] Police officers were stationed at the door to her room. Holiday remained under police guard at the hospital until she died from pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver on July 17, 1959. In the final years of her life, she had been progressively swindled out of her earnings, and she died with $0.70 in the bank and $750 (a tabloid fee) on her person. Her funeral mass was held at Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City.
Gilbert Millstein of The New York Times, who had been the narrator at Billie Holiday's 1956 Carnegie Hall concerts and had partly written the sleeve notes for the album The Essential Billie Holiday (see above), described her death in these same 1961-dated sleeve notes:
Billie Holiday died in the Metropolitan Hospital, New York, on Friday, July 17, 1959, in the bed in which she had been arrested for illegal possession of narcotics a little more than a month before, as she lay mortally ill; in the room from which a police guard had been removed – by court order – only a few hours before her death, which, like her life, was disorderly and pitiful. She had been strikingly beautiful, but she was wasted physically to a small, grotesque caricature of herself. The worms of every kind of excess – drugs were only one – had eaten her ... The likelihood exists that among the last thoughts of this cynical, sentimental, profane, generous and greatly talented woman of 44 was the belief that she was to be arraigned the following morning. She would have been, eventually, although possibly not that quickly. In any case, she removed herself finally from the jurisdiction of any court here below.
Voice[link]
Her distinctive delivery made Billie Holiday's performances instantly recognizable throughout her career. A master of improvisation, Billie's well-trained ear more than compensated for her lack of music education. Her voice lacked range and was somewhat thin, plus years of excessive drug use eventually altered its texture and gave it a prepossessing fragility. The emotion with which she imbued each song remained not only intact but also profound.[89][Full citation needed] Her last major recording, a 1958 album entitled Lady in Satin, features the backing of a 40-piece orchestra conducted and arranged by Ray Ellis, who said of the album in 1997:
I would say that the most emotional moment was her listening to the playback of "I'm a Fool to Want You." There were tears in her eyes ... After we finished the album I went into the control room and listened to all the takes. I must admit I was unhappy with her performance, but I was just listening musically instead of emotionally. It wasn't until I heard the final mix a few weeks later that I realized how great her performance really was.
Frank Sinatra admired Holiday, having been influenced by her performances on 52nd Street as a young man. He told Ebony in 1958 about her impact:
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.[91]
Hit records[link]
In 1986, Joel Whitburn's Record Research, Inc. company compiled information on the popularity of record releases from the pre-rock and roll era and created pop charts dating all the way back to the beginning of the commercial recording industry. The company's findings were published in the book Pop Memories 1890–1954. Several of Holiday's records are listed on the pop charts Whitburn created.[92]
Billie Holiday began her recording career on a high note with her first major release "Riffin' the Scotch" selling 5,000 copies. The song was released under the band name "Benny Goodman & his Orchestra."[92]
Most of Holiday's early successes were released under the band name "Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra." During her stay in Wilson's band, Holiday would sing a few bars and then other musicians would have a solo. Teddy Wilson, one of the most influential jazz pianists from the swing era,[93] accompanied Holiday more than any other musician. He and Holiday have 95 recordings together.[94]
In July 1936, Holiday began releasing sides under her own name. These songs were released under the band name "Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra."[95] Most noteworthy, the popular jazz standard "Summertime," sold well and was listed on the available pop charts at the time at number 12, the first time the jazz standard charted under any artist. Only Billy Stewart's R&B version of "Summertime" reached a higher chart placement than Holiday's, charting at number 10 thirty years later in 1966.[96]
Holiday had 16 best selling songs in 1937, making the year her most commercially successful. It was in this year that Holiday scored her sole number one hit as a featured vocalist on the available pop charts of the 1930s, "Carelessly". The hit "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm", was also recorded by Ray Noble, Glen Gray and Fred Astaire whose rendering was a best seller for weeks.[97] Holiday's version ranked 6 on the year-end single chart available for 1937.[44]
In 1939, Holiday recorded her biggest selling record, "Strange Fruit" for Commodore, charting at number 16 on the available pop charts for the 1930s.[98]
In 1940, Billboard began publishing its modern pop charts, which included the Best Selling Retail Records chart, the precursor to the Hot 100. None of Holiday's songs placed on the modern pop charts, partly because Billboard only published the first ten slots of the charts in some issues. Minor hits and independent releases had no way of being spotlighted.
"God Bless the Child", which went on to sell over a million copies, ranked number 3 on Billboard's year-end top songs of 1941.[45]
On October 24, 1942, Billboard began issuing its R&B charts. Two of Holiday's songs placed on the chart, "Trav'lin' Light" with Paul Whiteman, which topped the chart, and "Lover Man", which reached number 5.
"Trav'lin' Light" also reached 18 on Billboard's year-end chart.
Discography[link]
Main article: Billie Holiday discography
Billie Holiday recorded extensively for four labels: Columbia Records, issued on its subsidiary labels Brunswick Records, Vocalion Records, and OKeh Records, from 1933 through 1942; Commodore Records in 1939 and 1944; Decca Records from 1944 through 1950; briefly for Aladdin Records in 1951; Verve Records and on its earlier imprint Clef Records; from 1952 through 1957, then again for Columbia Records from 1957 to 1958 and finally for MGM Records in 1959. Many of Holiday's recordings appeared on 78 rpm records prior to the long-playing vinyl record era, and only Clef, Verve, and Columbia issued Holiday albums during her lifetime that were not compilations of previously released material. Many compilations have been issued since her death; as well as comprehensive box sets and live recordings.[99][100]
Studio LPs[link]
- Billie Holiday Sings (1952)
- An Evening with Billie Holiday (1952)
- Billie Holiday (1954)
- Stay with Me (1955)
- Music for Torching (1955)
- Velvet Mood (1956)
- Lady Sings the Blues (1956)
- Body and Soul (1957)
- Songs for Distingué Lovers (1957)
- All or Nothing at All (1958)
- Lady in Satin (1958)
- Last Recordings (1959)
Awards and honors[link]
Grammy Hall of Fame[link]
Billie Holiday was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
| Billie Holiday: Grammy Hall of Fame Awards[101] | |||||
| Year Recorded | Title | Genre | Label | Year Inducted | Notes |
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| 1949 | "Crazy He Calls Me" | Jazz (single) | Decca | 2010 | |
| 1944 | "Embraceable You" | Jazz (single) | Commodore | 2005 | |
| 1958 | Lady in Satin | Jazz (album) | Columbia | 2000 | |
| 1945 | "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" | Jazz (single) | Decca | 1989 | |
| 1939 | "Strange Fruit" | Jazz (single) | Commodore | 1978 | Listed also in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2002 |
| 1941 | "God Bless the Child" | Jazz (single) | Okeh | 1976 | |
Grammy Best Historical Album[link]
The Grammy Award for Best Historical Album has been presented since 1979.
| Year | Title | Label | Result |
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| 2002 | Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday | Columbia 1933–1944 | Winner |
| 1994 | The Complete Billie Holiday | Verve 1945–1959 | Winner |
| 1992 | Billie Holiday — The Complete Decca Recordings | Verve 1944–1950 | Winner |
| 1980 | Billie Holiday — Giants of Jazz | Time-Life | Winner |
Other honors[link]
| Year | Award | Honors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame[102] | Inducted | Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York |
| 2000 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Inducted | Category: "Early Influence" |
| 1997 | ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame[103] | Inducted | |
| 1947 | Esquire Magazine Gold Award | Best Leading Female Vocalist | Jazz award |
| 1946 | Esquire Magazine Silver Award | Best Leading Female Vocalist | Jazz award |
| 1945 | Esquire Magazine Silver Award | Best Leading Female Vocalist | Jazz award |
| 1944 | Esquire Magazine Gold Award | Best Leading Female Vocalist | Jazz award |
Tributes[link]
- 1972, Diana Ross portrayed Holiday in the film Lady Sings the Blues, which is loosely based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name. The film earned Ross a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
- She was portrayed by Ernestine Jackson in the play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill by Lanie Robertson.
- Singer Miki Howard released the Holiday tribute album, Miki Sings Billie: A Tribute to Billie Holiday in 1993.
- Paula Jai Parker portrayed Holiday in a Season 7 episode of the TV series Touched by an Angel, entitled "God Bless the Child," the title derived from a song which Holiday had written and performed.[104]
- Jazz pianist Mal Waldron performed as Holiday's accompanist and released several tribute albums including:
- Left Alone (Bethlehem, 1959)
- Blues for Lady Day (Black Lion, 1972)
- Left Alone '86 with Jackie McLean (Paddle Wheel, 1986)
- No More Tears (For Lady Day) (Timeless, 1989)
- Billie Hollidy, Croatian National Theatre in Split by A.Ostojić & Ksenia Prohaska (2006)[105]
Honors[link]
- 1987, Billie Holiday was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
- 1993, R&B singer Miki Howard released an album dedicated to Holiday titled Miki Sings Billie.
- 1994, the United States Postal Service introduced a Billie Holiday postage stamp.
- 1999, Holiday ranked #6 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock n' Roll.
- 2000, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Over the years, there have been many tributes to Billie Holiday, including "The Day Lady Died," a 1959 poem by Frank O'Hara.
- In 1988 the group U2 released "Angel of Harlem" in her honor.
- Arthur Phillips features Holiday's 1953 concert in New York in his novel The Song is You (2009).
- "My Only Friend" by The Magnetic Fields is a tribute to Billie Holiday.
Filmography[link]
- 1959: Chelsea at Nine
- 1957: The Sound of Jazz, CBS Television, December 8, 1957
- 1950: 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
- 1947: New Orleans
- 1935: "Symphony in Black", short (with Duke Ellington)
- 1933: The Emperor Jones, appeared as an extra
Television appearances[link]
| Year | Program | Host | Songs |
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Adventures in Jazz |
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Unknown Songs |
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Arlene Francis Show, NY (1) |
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The Man I Love, All of Me, Lover Man |
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Eddie Condon's Floor Show, NY (1) |
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I Love My Man, Keeps on Rainin', Lover Man |
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Eddie Condon's Floor Show, NY (1) |
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Fine & Mellow, Porgy, Them There Eyes, I Love My Man |
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Art Ford Show, NY (1) |
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Lover Man, I Cover the Waterfront, Two Minute Interview, All of Me |
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Art Ford Show, NY (1) |
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Them There Eyes, Detour Ahead, Now or Never |
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Eddie Condon's Floor Show, NY |
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Unknown |
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Apollo Theatre Show, NY (1) |
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You're My Thrill |
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Apollo Theatre Show, NY (1) |
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My Man |
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Apollo Theatre Show, NY (1) |
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Tenderly |
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The Comeback Story, NY (1) |
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Twenty Minute Interview, God Bless the Child |
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The Tonight Show, NY (1) |
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My Man, Them There Eyes, Lover Man |
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The Tonight Show, NY (1) |
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Please Don't Talk About Me, Two Minute Interview, Ghost of a Chance |
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Star's of Jazz, LA, CA (2) |
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Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, Billie's Blues, My Man |
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Bandstand USA, NY (1) |
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Willow Weep for Me, I Only Have Eyes for You, My Man, Please Don't Talk About Me |
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Night Beat, NY (1) |
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Fifteen Minute Interview |
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Peacock Alley, NY (1) |
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Twenty Minute Interview |
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The Tonight Show, NY (1) |
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Porgy |
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Live Broadcast from Mr. Kelly's, Chicago (1) |
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Good Morning Heartache, You Better Go Now |
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The Seven Lively Arts: The Sound of Jazz, LA (2) |
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Fine & Mellow |
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Club Oasis, NY (1) |
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You've Changed, My Man |
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Telethon, NY |
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Unknown Songs |
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Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY (2) |
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You've Changed, I Love My Man, When Your Lover Has Gone |
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Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY |
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All of Me, Good Morning Heartache, Travelin’ Light |
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Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY (2) |
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What a Little Moonlight Can Do, Foolin' Myself, It's Easy to Remember |
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Art Ford's Jazz Party, NY (2) |
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Moanin' Low, Don't Explain, When Your Lover Has Gone |
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Today Show |
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My Funny Valentine |
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Mars Club, Music Hall Parade Voyons Un Peu, Paris France (2) |
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I Only Have Eyes for You, Travelin’ Light |
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Gilles Margaritis Programme, Paris France |
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I Only Have Eyes For You, Trav'lin' Light |
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Timex All-Star Jazz Show IV, NY |
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Unknown |
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Chelsea at Nine, London, England (2) |
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Porgy, Please Don't Talk About Me, Strange Fruit |
(1) = Available on Audio (2) = Available on DVD
Notes[link]
- ^ a b History "Billie Holiday wishing on the Moon" p. 9.
- ^ Autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues" p. 14.
- ^ Bush, John. "Billie Holiday: Biography". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p56716/biography. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
- ^ Nicholson, pp. 17—19.
- ^ Nicholson, pp. 18—23.
- ^ Clarke, p. xiii.
- ^ Nicholson, pp. 21—22.
- ^ Nicholson, pp. 22–24.
- ^ Nicholson, p. 25.
- ^ Nicholson, p. 27.
- ^ Nicholson, p. 31.
- ^ Nicholson, p. 32.
- ^ "Billie Holiday Biography". Biography.com. http://www.biography.com/articles/Billie-Holiday-9341902. Retrieved June 29, 2009.
- ^ Nicholson, pp. 35—37.
- ^ Vail, Ken (1997). Lady Day's Diary. London, England: Sanctuary Publishing. p. 32. ISBN 1-86074-131-2.
- ^ Nicholson, pp. 35—39.
- ^ Nicholson, p. 39.
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| Name | Holiday, Billie |
| Alternative names | Fagan, Eleanora; Lady Day |
| Short description | Jazz singer, composer |
| Date of birth | April 7, 1915 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Date of death | July 17, 1959 |
| Place of death | New York City, New York, U.S. |
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