From 'The Sound of Jazz', 8 December 1957, one of the first major programs focusing on jazz to air on American network television (CBS). Billie Holiday with ...
From her 1960 debut album on Prestige. The song was written by Billie Holiday who first recorded it as a single in 1939 on the Commodore label. The flip side ...
Many thanks to Individuell83 who writes: This is the second version, recorded on April 30, 1939. The first version was recorded ten days earlier . On this version ...
Strange Fruit (Meeropol) by Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, piano interlude by Sonny White A poem on the horrors of lynching provided the basis for this ...
RARE OLDIES VIDEO WITH MISS BILLIE HOLIDAY & HER ALL-STAR BAND : Lester YOUNG (ts) , Ben WEBSTER (ts) , Coleman HAWKINS (ts) , Roy ...