Yesterday Wayna dropped by The Fox's morning show for a tribute to one of the greatest vocalists ever to grace a stage, Billie Holiday. The Grammy-nominated singer performed Lady Day's "Good Morning, Heartache" song with the whole look and all...If you're in Washington DC tomorrow, you can check out her special tribute to Billie Holiday at the Blues Alley. props to soulbounce
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Today has been a blow for all of us learning of the death of Bernie Mac. But in my grief, I take his memory to heart which is to continue to learn and to share with all. I used to watch his show, The Bernie Mac, show on television. I loved the lessons he shared with his families. He always adressed the viewing audience saying, "America..."That is how I feel when I blog but it is not Hello, Amer...
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Today has been a blow for all of us learning of the death of Bernie Mac. But in my grief, I take his memory to heart which is to continue to learn and to share with all. I used to watch his show, The Bernie Mac, show on television. I loved the lessons he shared with his families. He always adressed the viewing audience saying, "America..."That is how I feel when I blog but it is not Hello, Amer...
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I don't think that many people stop to recognize or appreciate that the roots of rock, perhaps the greatest musical genre of all time (if I can make a totally subjective statement here ;))lie in the blues and jazz movements of the early part of the century. Folk rock, for example, is closely related to both categories, not to mention funk, ska and many other categories of rock. Perhaps this is ...
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rant of the moment: i heard on the news last night that the mega-turtlesque Internet connectivity due to the Taiwan tsunami will not be fixed until the last week of February (which i am taking to mean as mid-March or so). i promised to be level-headed about it but ...aaarrrggghhhhhh. 70% of my job relies upon the Internet. boooooo.i am on page 144 of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, which so far...
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I can't say anything about Billie Holiday that hasn't already been said many times. I won't even try. If you've never heard of her, see her "Wiki":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday entry.While I was playing iTunes on random play, this tune came up. It's from the Verve years, so it would have been recorded late in her career.Great lady, great song...
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You can have your Nina's, Sarah's, and even your Ella's - I'll take Billie all the way...It's midafternoon on Christmas Eve on this side of the world - The Turkey is smoking on the grill, the wine is mulling, and Billie is on the stereo...I think I've bottled happiness!Merry Christmas! (In case you hadn't noticed, I LOVE this time of year...)Did everyone contribute their "Orgasm for Peace"?
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In 1957, CBS scheduled a live telecast of the jazz world as it was then, a mainstream, straight ahead experience. Called "The Sound of Jazz," it proved to be so popular that Columbia Records released a sound copy in stereo. All of the biggest names in jazz (save Satchmo!) were present, giving their all for their art. Billie Holiday was reunited with her past lover tenor saxist Lester Young who ...
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Billie Holiday (1915 - 1959) was one of the greatest song stylists in jazz although her style of singing was enforced by the ravages of drug and alcohol addiction that ultimately cost her her life.When she was a preschooler, her father left the family and never showed any interest in her or her mother again until after Holiday became famous which she then returned the favor. Her mother was not ...
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I know this wasn't necessarily what my friend "I am":http://mog.com/I_am/blog_post/85597 had in mind, with his brilliant suggestion for Jazzturdays, but this is a song that *haunts* me. Even before I understood the words of the song, it was one I'd hear from time to time. Remember vividly the feeling in my gut the first time I _heard_ the song though. I must have been around 12 or so, before...
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Although she continued to tour throughout the 1950's, the intensity of her early years was largely absent from the very late years of Billie Holiday's life. Yet there was enough left to give highly poignant renditions that were shot through with a wounded heart and soul. Nowhere is this better heard than in this performance of a Holiday classic: "Lover Man." The strings play such an important p...
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Today is the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. Roosevelt allowed the sale of beer at a alcohol content of 3.2% in advance of the full repeal which happened on December 5, 1933.Sounds like Billie is having a good time, why don't you? Cheers.
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| 1 Violets for Your Furs |
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| 2 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm |
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| 3 Strange Fruit |
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| 4 Fine and Mellow |
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| 5 Don't Explain |
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