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IMPERFECT BEAUTY RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES AND EARS, THE IMAGES OF BILLIE HOLIDAY CHANGE A 10-DISC SET GETS DOWN TO THE SOUND OF A GENIUS IN FLOWER
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First you notice the hissing, so let's get this out of the way: If
you are going to listen to vintage Billie Holiday, you are going to
have to put up with the imperfections of 1930s recordings.
Remastering goes only so far, and then the process of removing
background noise begins to purge the music as well.
I raise this because everyone ought to try to listen to Billie
Holiday, but not everyone will be ready for the scrapes and hisses
that go along with her. It's particularly jarring f...
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IMPERFECT BEAUTY RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES AND EARS, THE IMAGES OF BILLIE HOLIDAY CHANGE A 10-DISC SET GETS DOWN TO THE SOUND OF A GENIUS IN FLOWER
The Boston Globe
; First you notice the hissing, so let's get this out of the way: If you are going to listen to vintage Billie Holiday, you are going to have to put up with the imperfections of 1930s recordings. Remastering goes only so far, and then the process of removing background noise begins to purge the music
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Profile: CD-DVD by Billie Holiday is released
Morning Edition (NPR)
; ... the only one traveling this way. How strange the road you love should be so easy. MONTAGNE: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. INSKEEP: And I'm Steve Inskeep. Content and Programming copyright 2005 National Public Radio, Inc. All rights ...
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DAY OF TRIBUTE ARTISTS READY AN EVENING AT THE BOWL TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF BILLIE HOLIDAY.(U)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; Byline: Fred Shuster Music Writer HER EMOTIONAL HONESTY was as authentic as the gardenias she wore in her hair. Artists asked to ruminate on the intersection of life and art in the music of Billie Holiday point to the sense of truth imparted in highly personal interpretations of sometimes
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Cover Story: The Lady Vanishes Who stole Billie Holiday? She is feminist property because she was a black woman who did it her way. Her outsider-victim status made her a gay diva. And to straight, white hipsters, she's the sound of cool comfort. But, says Phil Johnson, the cultural appropriation has gone far enough. It's high time we saw her for what she was...
The Independent on Sunday
; When the jazz singer Billie Holiday died in 1959 aged 44 (of a complex of liver, kidney, heart and lung failure, her immune system weakened by drink and drugs) she was an alcoholic and on-off heroin addict with no money and a social circle of poisonous scroungers. The New York hospital room where
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BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LADY really sang the BLUES
Philadelphia Tribune, The
; When you think of great legendary musicians of the past, who do you think of? Maybe the Isley Brothers, The Temptations, or Stevie Wonder, but why don't we take it back a few more decades. Back to the 1940's and 1950's when there was a woman in the spotlight making memorable music. A woman that had
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Harlem Businesses Unite For A Holiday In Harlem, Offering Events And Special Discounts In Honor Of Billie Holiday
The Culvert Chronicles
; Since 1886, Harlem's best businesses have joined the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC) which is dedicated to community vitality. This November, the GHCC and some of Harlem's top businesses are saluting our own American icon, "Lady Day" by creating A "Holiday" in Harlem. Here's what the
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Arts: Billie and Lester against the world Forty years ago today, Billie Holiday died, four months after her frien d and collaborator, the saxophonist Lester Young. Theirs was an extraordinary relationship. By James Maycock
The Independent - London
; In Paris, a couple of weeks before his harrowing death in 1959, Lester Young spoke of Billie Holiday, mournfully commenting, "She's still my Lady Day." On 13 March, suffering from stabbing pains in the stomach, he impulsively returned to New York. On the aeroplane he began to vomit blood. Surviving
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buy these records; "Strange Fruit" Loop; Revisiting Billie Holiday's legacy in honor of her 90th birthday.
Philadelphia Weekly
; In a 1956 radio interview, a young reporter named Mike Wallace asked jazz diva Billie Holiday, who was promoting her new autobiography Lady Sings the Blues, why so many jazz artists die young. "We try to live 100 days in one day," she replied in her sensuous, gravely voice. "And we try to please so
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Billie Holiday CDs wrench the heart
Chicago Sun-Times
; Billie Holiday's career can almost be neatly divided into her early, often exuberant recordings made before 1942 and the often painfully poignant work she did in the last decade and a half of her life. Holiday recorded for Columbia and affiliated labels for the first decade of her recording career,
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Billie Holiday in story and song
The Boston Globe
; Child prostitute, teen-age star singer, abused woman, drug addict, protest symbol, maid, the woman with the white gardenia in her hair -- Billie Holiday sometimes seems to be barely more than a composite of cliches. Her story has made armchair psychologists of three generations of her listeners.
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