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Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Holiday was known for her vocal delivery and improvisation skills, which made up for her limited range and lack of formal music education.
After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs around Harlem. After being heard by producer John Hammond, who commended her voice, Holiday was signed to Brunswick Records in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which would later become a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday booked mainstream success with labels such as Columbia Records and Decca Records. By the late 1940s, however, Holiday was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, Holiday performed a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. However, due to her drug and alcohol problems, her reputation deteriorated.
Billie Holiday - The Best Of (By Classic Mood Experience) - Jazz Music
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Plot: Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
Keywords: 1930s, african-american, alcohol, arrest, baltimore-maryland, bandleader, based-on-book, blaxploitation, brothel, carnegie-hall-manhattan-new-york-cityClassic Mood Experience The best masterpieces ever recorded in the music history. Join our YT: http://www.youtube.com/user/classicmoodexp Join our Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/113483374521317576387/113483374521317576387/posts Join our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/classicmoodexp iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/it/album/cool-jazz-classic-mood-experience/id875065386 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Verschiedene_Interpreten_Cool_Jazz_Classic_Mood_Ex?id=Bfs6vgt66yhqujb433sds2yfa74 Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/4IHQ37Lfvq5Br31FmV2jZJ Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/6830239 Tracklist: 00:00 Me, Myself And I (1937) (Irving Gordon, Allan Roberts, Alvin S. Kaufman) 02:33 Nice Work If You Can Get It (1937) (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)...
Subscribe for more jazz and classical music: http://bit.ly/YouTubeHalidonMusic ▶ BUY the full album from our store: http://bit.ly/2eiUTL5 SPECIAL OFFER € 1.99! ▶ BUY on Amazon: http://amzn.to/29tK2eX OUR PLAYLISTS Jazz Essential - The Very Best of Jazz: https://bit.ly/YTJazzEssential Jazz from Italy – Jazz Italiano: http://bit.ly/ItalianJazz Follow us here: https://www.facebook.com/halidonmusic/ https://twitter.com/halidonmusic http://www.halidon.it/index.php More music here: https://play.spotify.com/user/halidon TRACKLIST THE BEST OF BILLIE HOLIDAY 1 On the Sunny Side of the Street (McHugh - Fields) (1944) Eddie Heywood (piano), John Simmons (bass), Sidney Catlett (drums) 2 All of Me Marks - Simons) ( march 21, 1941) 02:59 acc. by EDDIE HEYWOOD and His Orchestra featuring: Eddie...
Billie Holiday - All of me . . . All of me Why not take all of me Can't you see I'm no good without you Take my lips I want to lose them Take my arms I'll never use them Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry How can I go on dear, without you You took the part that once was my heart So why not take all of me
Lady Sings the Blues is an album by jazz vocalist Billie Holiday. It was Holiday's last album released on Clef Records; the following year, the label would be absorbed by Verve Records. Lady Sings the Blues was taken from sessions taped during 1954 and 1956. It was released simultaneously with her ghostwritten autobiography of the same name. The tunes are: 1.- Lady Sings The Blues 3:45 (Billie Holiday - Herbie Nichols) 2.- Trav'lin' Light 3:08 (James Mundy - Johny Mercer- James Oliver) 3.- I Must Have That Man 3:03 (Jimmy McHugh - Dorothy Fields) 4,. Some Other Spring 3:35 (Arthur Herzog, Jr.) 5. Strange Fruit 3:02 (Lewis Allan) 6.- No Good Man 3:18 (Irene HIgginbotham - Dan Fisher - Sammy Gallop) 7.- God Bless The Child 3:57 (Billie Holiday - Arthur Herzog, Jr.) 8.- Good Morning Hearta...
Discover our Best of Jazz on iTunes : http://smarturl.it/verybestofjazz50 Tracklist : 01 - 00:00 - Strange Fruit 02 - 03:15 - Don't Explain 03 - 05:44 - Summertime 04 - 08:40 - I'm a Fool to Want You 05 - 12:07 - Body and Soul 06 - 15:08 - All of Me 07 - 19:08 - Crazy He Calls Me 08 - 22:14 - God Bless the Child 09 - 25:12 - Easy Living 10 - 28:17 - Georgia On My Mind 11 - 31:37 - My Man 12 - 34:41 - Let's Do It 13 - 37:39 - The Way You Look Tonight 14 - 40:39 - Trav'lin Light 15 - 43:47 - That Ole Devil Called Love JazzAndBluesExperience ♫ SUBSCRIBE HERE : http://bit.ly/10VoH4l (Re)Discover the Jazz and Blues greatest hits ! ♫ JazznBluesExperience is your channel for all the best jazz and blues music. Find your favorite songs and artists and experience the best of jazz music and blues...
Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 -- July 17, 1959) was an american jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Billie Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing.
Rare Live Footage of one of the firtst anti rascism songs ever.
Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday album Greatest Hits no copyright infringement intended
Billie Holiday – Blues, Love & Romance Find the album here: http://bit.ly/1LbDOgI http://bit.ly/1QDIjib http://bit.ly/1iAH3RR http://bit.ly/1jiRcTS http://bit.ly/1LSAcuB http://amzn.to/1OyUeAf 00:00 - I Get Along Without You Very Well 02:58 - Solitude 06:28 - Lover Man 09:44 - Fine and Mellow 12:55 - St Louis Blues 15:45 - Mean to Me 18:50 - Blue Moon 22:19 - Why Was I Born? 25:08 - The Same Old Story 28:18 - Let's Call The Whole Thing Off 30:54 - Keeps On Rainin' 34:09 - Baby Get Lost 37:26 - I Cover the Waterfront 40:23 - Good Morning Heartache 43:30 - Let's Do It 46:25 - Porgy 49:21 - Nice Work If You Can Get It 52:29 - God Bless the Child 55:24 - Tenderly 58:46 - Billie's Blues 01:01:25 - My Old Flame 01:04:22 - My Man 01:07:23 - As Time Goes By 01:10:30 ...
Billie Holiday - Fine And Mellow (Live CBS Studios 1957)
Billie Holiday, vocals.... Carl Drinkard, piano.... Kenny Burrell, guitar.... Carson Smith, bass.... Chico Hamilton, drums.... Roy Eldridge, trumpet.... Coleman Hawkins, tenor sax.... Tony Scott, piano..... Buck Clayton, trumpet.... Al Cohn, tenor sax.... Tony Scott, clarinet.... .... .... Recorded November 10, 1956... ..... ..... FAIR USE DISCLAIMER: I do not own copyright for this copyrighted artwork, but under Section 107 United States Copyright Law as noted by the United States Copyright Office (Copyright Act 1976), allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. I state here in a good faith that I have made and uploaded here this copy of this copyrighted artwork completely for the purposes of teaching and re...
From French TV, the great Lady Day live at the Olympia, November 18, 1958. Billie sings I Only Have Eyes For You and Travelin' Light.
On of the best interpretation of Billie with Jimmy Rowles, and in very high quality, ..... take a look
Sem dúvida, uma apresentação memorável da melhor cantora de jazz que o mundo já conheceu, infelizmente essa foi a última aparição em público, de Billie, cuja a saúde já estava debilitada. Porém bastam alguns segundos para reconhecermos a interpretação e voz inigualáveis novamente. A Lady da voz amarga, postura elegante e jeito sutil, faz interpretações inigualáveis cantando tudo a seu jeito e a seu ritmo, tornando qualquer mera canção em um acontecimento sublime. Apresentação no programa Chelsea at nine, no dia 23 de Fevereiro de 1959, em Londres.
"Lady Day" Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan [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. The Chicago Blues Museum is a registered trade mark / (501c3)
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"Ninguém canta como eu a palavra 'fome' ou a palavra 'amor'. Sem dúvida porque eu sei o que há por trás destas palavras" Negra, pobre, prostituída. A vida instável levada entre entre reformatórios e cabarés, das ruas do Harlem até as casas de espetáculos mais prestigiadas do planeta, entre a pobreza, fome, o sucesso arrebatador e a consolidação como "a melhor de todos os tempos". Nascida Eleanora Fagan Gough a 15 de abril de 1915, logo no início de vida Billie conheceu os percalços do cotidiano, em uma época difícil em que a população estava dividida e classificada por cor, Billie logo percebeu que era branca demais para ser negra, porém negra demais para ser branca, jamais aceitou ser classificada por sua cor, uma ousadia à época, lutou a vida toda para se impor e pagou um preço alto por...
Billie Holiday was a jazz diva who became the stereotypical victim - unlucky in life, unlucky in love and dead from drink and drugs at the age of only 44. Reputations re-examines Billie Holiday's life and career. Was life hard on Billie, or was she always a tragedy waiting to happen? Holiday was born in Baltimore in 1915, the illegitimate daughter of a 16-year-old jazz musician and an 18-year-old cleaner. She was raped by a neighbour at the age of 11, and began work as a prostitute in Harlem at the age of 14. However, she was already listening to jazz -- Louis Armstrong records on a wind-up Victrola -- and started to think about a career which would take her out of the brothel where she worked. She began singing in Harlem's night spots and was soon noticed as something different. She cut h...
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These are collections of rare interviews of Billie Holiday. Source: Billie on Billie (name of DVD) Interviewers are unknown at the time. Husband Louis McKay also speaks in this interview
This Billie Holiday interview was recorded when Billie was working at a long engagement at the Strand Theater with Count Basie in July -August 1948. Some of these pictures are from the Strand Theater. ENJOY AND COMMENT!
This is a very rare Billie Holiday interview that hasn't been heard since it was given (presumably in the summer of 1956). In it, Holiday promotes her newest album for Clef (later Verve) Records titled "Velvet Mood" as well as her best selling autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues." The reason for the interview not airing was because the radio station feared that listeners would think that Holiday was drunk during the interview because of her slurred speech.
Etta James is interviewed for a Women In Jazz TV special in the 1980's. She discusses her influences, including Billie Holiday.
Lady Day The Many Faces of Billie Holiday invites viewers to see the many faces of this dark lady of the sonnets, as one poet called her, and to appreciate her undying art more deeply. Most presentations feature Lady Day as the sad victim of hard times and drugs. The single fact of her life that matters above all others is that she was a great artist who, with Louis Armstrong, invented modern jazz singing. Mining a treasure-trove of completely new information, the producers set the record straight and beautifully. In a voice that is Billie-like in its rasping wiseness and its ring, stage and screen star, Ruby Dee, reads from Holidays autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. With Carmen McRae, Annie Ross, Buck Clayton, Harry Sweets Edison, Mal Waldron, Milt Gabler, Albert Murray and others. M...
November 8, 1956 was a very busy day for Billie Holiday. She was making the rounds on television and radio to promote her book and upcoming November 10th concert at Carnegie Hall, which would become a huge success. She appeared on Mike Wallace's Night Beat television program on ABC, Steve Allen's Tonight Show on NBC, and in this video, on Tex McCleary's Peacock Alley on NBC. Like with a lot of Holiday's television broadcasts in the 1950s, footage has been lost but audio has survived. This is a rarely heard interview in which Holiday talks about her upcoming concert, recites "Don't Explain," "Fine and Mellow" and "Yesterdays" in spoken word format and even talks about Elvis Presley. Enjoy!
This rare interview was recorded while Billie was touring in Europe in 1954. The person that interviews Lady is Olle Helander.
FROM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday Billie Holiday Lived: Apr 07, 1915 - Jul 17, 1959 (age 44) Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) Spouse: Louis McKay (1957 - 1959) · Jimmy Monroe (1941 - 1947) Romance: Joe Guy Singer Eleanora Fagan, professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. ALSO WATCH: https://youtu.be/_sCqxFs4JEs https://youtu.be/hEQkAQVvSG0 https://youtu.be/RrrnAaWKk0w https://youtu.be/WYnbe_2IZ8Q
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I'd wait for you
I'd slave for you
I'd be a beggar or a knave for you
If that isn't love, it will have to do
Until the real thing comes along
I'd gladly move
The earth for you
To prove my love, dear
And its worth for you
If that isn't love, it will have to do
Until the real thing comes along.
With all the words, dear, at my command
I just can't make you understand
I'll always love you darling
Come what may
My heart is yours
What more can I say?
I'd lie for you
I'd sigh for you
I'd tear the stars down from the sky for you
If that isn't love, it will have to do
Until the real thing comes along
With all the words, dear, at my command
I just can't make you understand
I'll always love you baby
Come what may
My heart is yours
What more can I say?
I'd lie for you
I'd cry for you
I'd lay my body down and die tor you
If that isn't love, it will have to do