Lady's body and soul

It's hard to believe, but the world of jazz celebrates the centenary of Billy Holide! Billy's voice began to lose the traction power too early. And still, she was and will remain the great lady of the deed, the great singer. Frank Sinatra said he learned to sing, listening to Billy. Listening to Billy, we also learn.

“... Years of the war were a strange time. My great -great -grandmother saw how the civil war rolled outside the windows of her shacks on the outskirts of plantations in Virginia. In that era, everyone knew what war was, but almost all those who remembered for a long time died. But the hell are we knowing what we knew about the war? Parades, rallies with a subscription to military bonds, uso (united services of organizing the leisure of troops), food coupons and letters with strange stamps ... all this seemed to be a surama ... I performed before different audiences, and I saw their flannel costumes changed to khaki ... "

No, no, these are still “jazz time” and, as before, on the short waves of “freedom” and from our website www.svoboda.org . And the microphone in Paris is the same DS.

Simple and during the Second World Jazz - lived.

Billie Holidy - I Got a Right to Sing the Blues - 5:54 (Billie Holid - Velvet Mood - Verve)

“I Got a Right to Sing the Blues”, “I have the right to sing blues ...” - a 1932 song, Harold Arlena and Tad Köhler, written for the Broadway show “Earl Caroll's Vanities”. Billy Holide - vocals; Harry "Svits" Edison is a pipe; Benny Carter-alt-saxophone; Jimmy Rowles - Royal; Barney Kessel - guitar; John Simmons - double bass and Larry Banker - drums. Vinyl 1956 "Velvetiy Mood", "Verve".

“I felt and saw that people had become closer to each other, as if we had been rallied together with an impending storm. As after an earthquake, everyone spoke the same thing. But the habit prevailed and after some time everyone lived as before, as before the whole world was distraught ... "

Eleanor Feigan, she, Billy Holide, her autobiography “Lady Sings the Blues”, the publishing house “Doubleday”, 1956.

Lady Day was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 100 years ago.

Billie Holid - Darn that Dream - 6:15 (Billie Holyiday - Verve Silver Collection)

“Darn That Dream” is the music of Jimmy van Huguesen, the words of Eddie Delanga, a 1939 songstock song. This time, the Broadway musical "Swingin 'The Dream".

I curse this dream

Which visits me every night.

You say you love me

And hug tightly

But when I wake up

I am alone - you are not at all.

This dream is cursed.

This time, Billy Kholidei accompanied: Harry “Svits” Edison is a pipe; Ben Webster-Tenor Saxophone; Jimmy Rowles - Royal; Barney Kessel - guitar; Red Mitchell - doublebas and alvin table - drums. January 4, 1957, Los Angeles. In the voice of the lady, the action is already cracking. In stock two and a half years of life.

“I will never forget the day when I arrived at the airport to fly to play under the USO program, a tour of the troops leisure. I was dressed as in the picture. But when I danced up the stairs to the door of the plane, dragging on the leash of my hefty dog named Mr., the guy in uniform banged in my face:

“Where are you going, Miss?”

“I'm flying to Florida to sing,” I answered. - To sing for free. So, do not focus on me!

But he coped with me in a couple of minutes: I was pulled down, changed into military uniforms and took Mr. with his sad slobbed grin. When I saw a gut of the plane, my head went around: where are we flying? Inside there were seats, like tubs and nothing more. You had to sit almost on a parachute and stare at the same idiot as you, on the contrary. By the time the plane went on landing, I felt like a green newlywed after the first day of the drill under the hot sun. ”

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Billie HOLIDAY - ILL WIND - 6:14 (Billie HOLIDAY - All or Nothing at All - VERVE)

“Ill Wind”, “The Evil Wind” is another song -stand -up Harold Arlene and Tada Köhler. “Evil wind, blow out of here! Let me rest! From you only troubles, for me only troubles ... You cover the sunny glow with a veil, which I need so much now! And this is by no means cute ... After all, it is already difficult, already, already problems above the head! They fall out of nowhere when love turns into failure ... "

Improval translation of your DS. In fact, the song is almost indistinguishable.

The composition (in theory, this compilation) is the same as in Darn That Dream: Billy Holide - vocals; Harry "Svits" Edison is a pipe; Ben Webster - tenor; Jimmy Roweles - Royal; Barney Kessel - guitar; Red Mitchell - doublebas and alvin table - drums. January 4, 1957, Los Angeles.

“I don’t know how many endless miles I missed in those days (by plane, train or on our white bus), speaking to the troops. As soon as I woke up, Joe Gai had already hung over me - I had to fly to the concert. The soldier's audience was amazing! They adored everything that I sang, and they never tired of chanting: “Billie's Blues”, “Fine and Mellow” or “Body and Soul”. But there is nothing more miserable than a sight of two to three hundred guys stuck in the wild south without music, without women, without nothing ... "

Billy Holide, her bestseller "Lady Sings the Blues", 1956.

Trumpet Joe Guy was Billy's lover, who finally planted her on heroin. With amazing sadism and calculation, he supplied it with high -quality diacolorphine.

Billie Holidy - Billie's Blues (AKA 'I Love My Man') - 3:20 (Billie Holyiday at the Carnegie Hall - Vervy)

Billie's Blues, Blues Billy. The British weekly “Melody Maker” (formerly a newspaper) in a note dated August 1 36 wrote: “Singer Billy Holide recorded her first real solo last week in Bransuke (Georgia).”

This was the Blues Billy:

I would be a maneuan if I said

That I do not like my boyfriend.

Liars, I swear if I said no!

But I will leave him and would be a real lie,

If I said that I would not leave.

I was your slave, Baby,

From the very moment when I became your baby.

This is true: I was your slave.

But before I become your dog,

On your grave, grass will turn green ...

According to applause, it can be judged that this is a concert, but we must clarify: this is a concert in the holy of saints, in Carnegie Hall, November 10, 1956. Roy Eldridge - pipe; Coleman Hawkins-Tenor Saxes; Tony cattle - piano; Karson Smis is a double bass and Chiko Hamilton - drums. The recording is historical, but technically medium -sized. Before the concert, the host of Gilbier Millstain read four excerpts from Billy Lady Sings The Blues. This was the second and last concert of Lady Oko in Carnegie Hall. The clock was ticking ...

The historian of Jazz and the reviewer “Down Beat” Nat Hantoff, who was present at the concert, wrote: “All evening, Billy was delightful compared to the latest performances, form. Her phrasing, like intonations, were clear and confident, and at the same time he was literally the heat of heat, which was tangible to the public. As in the best times, the irony splashed under the bitterness of words. A light smile was on her lips and in her eyes, as if this time she agreed with that part of the public, which, with all efforts, did not understand her. The rhythm flowed in a unique wave -shaped, soft presentation of the plot. The words became part of her own experience and the advancement through the text of the blues was her, lady de de. Her sound, voice. The fabric, the surface of the blues was simultaneously sharpened as steel, but at the same time was velvet inside. That was the voice unbearably wise in the destruction of illusions and at the same time, in fact, almost childish. The audience was all of her, all on her side even before she began to sing, welcoming her, saying goodbye to her with heavy loving applause. That was the evening when Billy was at the very top of his art, skill. In the skill of self -expression, dedication, she was the most honest singer of all living. "

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Billie Holidy - Fine and Mellow - 6:19 (Billie HOLIDAY & LESTER Young - A Musical Romance - Columbia)

“Fine and Mellow”, “sophisticated and tender” - Billy Holide.

My boyfriend does not love me

Treats me like a dog.

He does not love me

He treats me vilely.

But when he senaches to love me -

He is so sophisticated and sweet ... "

Only Billy with her incredible personal experience could write this. She was raped by a neighbor when she was a child. Mother attached her to Harlem to the apartment mistress who turned out to be a bander. The minor Billy was made a young prostitute. And when Billy threw away from herself (you can’t completely drop it!) This load of the past, all her adventures turned into prisons and a nightmare. Hence death at 44 from drugs.

On the record "Fine and Mellow" Billy accompanied: Doc Chitham - pipe; Vick Dikenson - thrombone; Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins-tenor Saxophones; Mel Waldron - Royal; Danny Barker - guitar; Jim Etles - doublebas and Joe Jones - drums. December 5, 1957, 30 street, recording studio CBS, New York.

“After each concert, these soldiers removed me like a birch. The petal for the petal, they cut off the wagonia in my hair. They even asked for something from my clothes. Stockings! They asked for stockings! The smell of a woman was most expensive for them ... I returned to New York to 52nd Street. The clubs were full of guys in khaki. I lost my account, recalling how many I had arranged for the evenings-spares in the Famous Door club for children going to the front. After the concert, there were three or four guys in the club, we locked the door and the time of the last glass came. And then they left. A few weeks later, I received a letter from some damned island, where they fought with snakes, with rogue beetles, with heat and rotten swamps. These were heartbreaking letters. They were written by the boys whom I did not know who did not know me. But I could not just break their letters and throw it away. Sometimes epistles came from completely obsessed on me. I bought a pavement and several records and sent them: my records or ellington. Many of the guys were from wealthy families, but when the records with a paveph for twenty dollars came and the second package with thirty bucks, it seemed to them that they received the most precious gift in life. They wrote about what they were waiting and waiting for something to begin and that they go all day naked and only at night are wrapped in blankets, fleeing the bites of insects. Their only entertainment was my records. ”

Billie Holidy - Body and Soul - 6:18 (Billie Holidy - Body and Soul - Verve)

“Body and Soul”, “Body and Soul” Song-Standard, written by three songwriters Eduard Hayman, Robert Sur and Francam Auton (add composer Johnny Green), written in 1930 for the English actress and singer Gertrude Laurents. The standard was published in London, but was first fulfilled in the United States on Broadway Queen Caramel-Sentimental songs by Libby Holmen. The first jazz performer both “bodies” and “souls” was Louis Armstrong. The three most famous versions are the already known to you Coleman Hawkins, Billy Holide with Clifford Brown and Ella Fitzgerald.

"Body and Soul" is the most executable standard in jazz.

In this case, Billy Holide sang with her favorite jazzmen: Harry “Svits” Edison is a pipe; Ben Uebster - tenor; Jimmy Roweles - Royal; Barney Kessel - guitar; Red Mitchell - doublebas and alvin table - drums. January 4, 1957, Hollywood, California.

The centenary of Billy Holide is celebrated on the whole ball: from Hong Kong to Oslo, from Peter to St. Louis and from Paris to Barcelona and Tokyo. Forty -four years, Lady deed was a heavy, sometimes nightmare, painful, but legend. Her heritage, including the last cracked records, will remain forever. Her songs, mostly written by others, were not part of her life, but the fabric of her life. They have no distance between the gloomy February morning and a woman with a bouquet of snow -white Gardenia in the hair standing at the microphone. There is no pause between the three glasses of Gin and the nod of Lester Yang, who entered where she cut off the phrase ...

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Freddie Hubbard - God Blas The Child - 11:53 (Freddie Hubbard - God Blas The Child - Osa - Wheezy Multimedia)

"God bless the child", "God, bless the child!" - Billy wrote this song after a quarrel with her mother. Details - in her autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues."

Freddie Hubbard is his concert in Warsaw on October 24, 1991. Freddy is a pipe; Ronnie Matyia - piano; Jeff Chamber - double bass and Ralph Penland - drums. Hubbard named this disk in honor of Holide "God Blas The Child."

Frederick Divine Hubbard nicknamed Freddy was born on April 7, 1938 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was a trumpet of Bibop, hard-bope and post-bope. He is undoubtedly entering the top ten of the best trumpeters of the era. Freddie kept his seventy and a half years on our ball.

Voila, on this is our second April radio show, known as the “Jazz Time”, has come to an end. Sound engineer of this issue Alexander Arkadyev; The author and the presenter are Dmitry Savitsky. Before gently our heavy velvet curtains, I have to amend the text of the past gear: in the play “Taurus Moon” I played on a sopra-saxophone, contrary to the producers, who claimed that he did not let out the baritone-sakes from his hands. Thank you, Sergey Doronin for the hint and - MEA Culpa! For the SIM of the joy of the joys, Chao, Bai-Bay!