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 Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan and Vic Dickenson.
Jazz
critic Nat Hentoff recalled that during rehearsals, Billie Holiday and
Lester Young kept to opposite sides of the room. During the performance
of "Fine and Mellow", Hentoff recalled,
'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 Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan and Vic Dickenson.
Jazz
critic Nat Hentoff recalled that during rehearsals, Billie Holiday and
Lester Young kept to opposite sides of the room. During the performance
of "Fine and Mellow", Hentoff recalled,
"Lester got up, and he played
the purest blues I have ever heard, and [he and Holiday] were looking at
each other, their eyes were sort of interlocked, and she was sort of
nodding and half--smiling. It was as if they were both remembering what
had been—whatever that was. And in the control room we were all crying.
When the show was over, they went their separate ways."
On the
way to Lester Young's funeral in 1959, Billie Holiday said she thought
she'd be next to go. She was dead less than four months later.
the purest blues I have ever heard, and [he and Holiday] were looking at
each other, their eyes were sort of interlocked, and she was sort of
nodding and half--smiling. It was as if they were both remembering what
had been—whatever that was. And in the control room we were all crying.
When the show was over, they went their separate ways."
On the
way to Lester Young's funeral in 1959, Billie Holiday said she thought
she'd be next to go. She was dead less than four months later.
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