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History of Jazz in American Culture

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History of Jazz in American Culture
  • About
  • Resources
  • 1910s-20s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s-80s
  • 2000s
  • Piano
  • Vocalists
  • 2020

Vocalists

Billie Holiday

  • “God Bless the Child” and “Now or Never” (w/Count Basie Septet, 1950)
    • film colorized and enhanced
  • with Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
  • “Fine and Mellow,” 1957, with Lester Young
  • “Strange Fruit,” 1959
  • Interview
  • “The Day Lady Day Died,” Frank O’Hara (1959/1964)
  • Prez & Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday and Lester Young (riverwalk jazz collection, Stanford U.)
  • Billie Holiday and Lester Young: the intimate friendship between Lady Day and Prez (James Maycock, 2015)

Anita O’Day

  • “Tea for Two,” 1958, Newport Jazz Festival
  • “Fly Me to the Moon,” 1963?, Sweden

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