Requested by emailer Joseph: This is Billie Holiday with three tenors Hawkins, Young and Webster...What's cool about this clip is that I studi
June 3, 2006

Requested by emailer Joseph: This is Billie Holiday with three tenors… Hawkins, Young and Webster...What's cool about this clip is that I studied with Milt Hinton in the eighties and he's playing bass on this track. (I'll save him for another night.)

Wikipedia:

"Settling in Harlem, Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Around 1932 she was "discovered" by record producer John Hammond at a club called Monette's (there is still some dispute among historians about who was the first to hear and publicise her, although it is generally agreed that Hammond was the first.) Hammond arranged several sessions for her with Benny Goodman; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" (1933)...read on"

"Lady Sings the Blues" is a great movie about Billie.

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