Billie Holiday was an improvising artist who happened to sing. Using phrase and rhythm, combined with a unique vocal timbre, Holiday fit in with the heaviest jazz musicians of her day from her famous musical relationship with Lester Young and Teddy Wilson, to the Paul Whiteman and Artie Shaw Orchestras, to jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. She's remembered for the anti-lynching poem set to music "Strange Fruit," her original "God Bless The Child," and for emotional interpretations of popular American songbook numbers such as "Lover Man." Tonight at 10 p.m. Blue Lake Public Radio celebrates the music of Billie Holiday, and you may hear the broadcast again tomorrow on our new Jazz stream.
Billie Holiday Monday at 10 on Jazz From Blue Lake
