Lady Day Spring Toned, April Warmly

Show description for Sunday 4/17/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our annual celebration of Our Lady, the great Lady Day, Miss Billie Holiday!

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Billie Holiday	Your Mother's Son In Law	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	It's Like Reaching For The Moon	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Pennies From Heaven	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	They Can't Take That Away From Me	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	If Dreams Come True	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Now They Call It Swing	Quintessential	Columbia
	Countee Cullen	From The Dark Tower	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
	Langston Hughes	I've Known Rivers	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
	Robert Hayden	Frederick Douglass	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
	Paul Laurence Dunbar	We Wear The Mask	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
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	Eric Dolphy	Eclipse	Out There	New Jazz
	Jayne Cortez	Essence Of Rose Solitude	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Billie Holiday	Solitude	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Solitude	First Verve Sessions	Verve
	Sonny Rollins	Solitude	Way Out West	Contemporary
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	Billie Holiday	Getting Some Fun Out Of Life	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	A Sail Boat In The Moonlight	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	He Ain't Got Rhythm	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Billie's Blues	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Spreadin' The Rhythm Around	Quintessential	Columbia
	Ntozake Shange	Sorry	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf	Buddha
	Billie Holiday	Ain't Nobodies Business If I Do	Billie Holiday	Decca
	Billie Holiday	Do Your Duty	Billie Holiday	Decca
	Billie Holiday	Now Or Never	Billie Holiday	Decca
	Ntozake Shange	One	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf	Buddha
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	Billie Holiday	God Bless The Child	Lady Sings The Blues	Verve
	Sonny Rollins	God Bless The Child	The Bridge	RCA
	Billie Holiday	God Bless The Child	Billie's Blues	Columbia
	Eric Dolphy	God Bless The Child	Status	Fantasy
	Billie Holiday	Nice Work If You Can Get It	At Newport	Verve
	Billie Holiday	Willow Weep For Me	At Newport	Verve
	Mahmood Jamal	A Gift Of Blood	An Evening of International Poetry	Alliance
	Mahmood Jamal	Silence	An Evening of International Poetry	Alliance
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	Sterling Brown	An Old Woman Remembers	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
	Richard Wright	Between The World And Me	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
	Billie Holiday	Strange Fruit	Lady Sings The Blues	Verve
	Billie Holiday	Strange Fruit	Strange Fruit	Commodore
	Billie Holiday	Born To Love	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Let's Call The Whole Thing Off	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	This Years Kisses	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Cheek To Cheek	Lady Sings The Blues	Verve
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	Billie Holiday	Lady Sings The Blues	Lady Sings The Blues	Verve
	Herbie Nichols	Lady Sings The Blues	The Third World	Blue Note
	Ronald Stone	Lady Day Spring Toned	New Jazz Poets	Broadside
	Archie Shepp	Lady Sings The Blues	Live In San Francisco	Impulse

Billie Tells Her Story

New Day Jazz Justin Desmangles Jazz music for lovers and the lonely. Genre Jazz Miss the Show? MP3 Stream (128kbps, broadband) MP3 Stream (32kbps, dial-up) [View Past Shows] [View Upcoming Shows] Show Description for Sunday 04/11/2010 Our annual birthday celebration of Our Lady, the great Lady Day, Miss Billie Holiday, is this afternoon. As ever, the broadcast, in it's entirety, will be dedicated exclusively to her and her music.
Artist Song Album Label Billie Holiday Your Mother's Son-in-law The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday It's Like Reaching for the Moon The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday He Ain't Got Rhythm The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday Let's Call the Whole Thing Off The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday My Man The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia James Emanuel (read by Cicely Tyson) Get Up Blues A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways Mari Evans (read by Cicely Tyson) The Rebel A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways Billie Holiday Be Fair to Me Baby Shades of Blue Sunset Billie Holiday Blue Turning Grey Over You Shades of Blue Sunset Billie Holiday Rocky Mountain Blues Shades of Blue Sunset -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday Everything I Have is Yours The Complete Verve Recordings Verve Billie Holiday What A Little Moonlight Can Do The Complete Verve Recordings Verve Billie Holiday Cheek to Cheek Lady Sings the Blues Verve -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday I Get a Kick Out of You The Complete Verve Recordings Verve Gwendolyn Brooks Song of the Front Yard Anthology of Negro Poets Folkways Gwendolyn Brooks The Preacher Ruminates Behind the Sermon Anthology of Negro Poets Folkways -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday Nice Work If You Can Get It The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday I Don't Know If I'm Coming Or Going The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday Pennies From Heaven The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday The Way You Look Tonight The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday Spreadin' the Rhythm Around The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday A Fine Romance The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday This Years Kisses The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday A Sailboat in the Moonlight The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Langston Hughes (read by Ellen Holly) Mother to Son A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways Billie Holiday Autumn in New York The Complete Verve Recordings Verve -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday East of the Sun The Complete Verve Recordings Verve Billie Holiday Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me The Complete Verve Recordings Verve Jean Toomer (read by Arna Bontemps) Song of the Sun Antholgy of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. Folkways Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues Lady Sings the Blues Verve Margaret Walker (read by Gloria Foster) We Have Been Believers A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways Billie Holiday Strange Fruit Lady Sings the Blues Verve Richard Wright (read by James Earl Jones) Between the World and Me A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways -----------------------------air break----------------------------- Billie Holiday He's Funny That Way The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia Billie Holiday They Can't Take That Away From Me The Quintessential Billie Holiday Columbia

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	Nina Simone	Wild is the Wind	Wild is the Wind	Phillips
	Jayne Cortez & Richard Davis	Festivals & Funerals	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Miles Davis & Gil Evans	Blues for Pablo	Miles Ahead	Columbia
	Beverly Kenney	It Ain't Necessarily So	Come Swing With Me	Roost
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	Charles Mingus featuring Eric Dolphy	Stormy Weather	The Complete Candid Recordings of Charles Mingus	Mosaic
	Ntozake Shange (read by Trazana Beverly)	One	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf	Buddha
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	Nina Simone	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free	Silk & Soul	RCA
	Bud Powell	Cleopatra's Dream	The Scene Changes	Blue Note
	Julian Adderley	Alison's Uncle	Alison's Uncle (single)	Blue Note - Japan
	Charles Mingus	Bugs	The Complete Candid Recordings of Charles Mingus	Mosaic
	Betty Carter	What A Little Moonlight Can Do	The Modern Sound of Betty Carter	ABC Paramount
	Betty Carter	There's No You	The Modern Sound of Betty Carter	ABC Paramount
	Margaret Walker	Old Molly Means	Anthology of Negro Poetry	Folkways
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	Billie Holiday	My Man	The Quintessential Billie Holiday Volume 5	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Let's Call the Whole Thing Off	The Quintessential Billie Holiday Volume 4	Columbia
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	Billie Holiday	He Ain't Got Rhythm	The Quintessential Billie Holiday Volume 3	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Billie's Blues	The Quintessential Billie Holiday Volume 2	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	You're Mother's Son In Law	The Quintessential Billie Holiday Volume 1	Columbia
	Gwendolyn Brooks	Song of the Front Yard	Anthology of Negro Poetry	Folkways
	Gwendolyn Brooks	The Preacher Ruminates	Anthology of Negro Poetry	Folkways
	Gwendolyn Brooks	The Children of the Poor	Anthology of Negro Poetry	Folkways
	Gwendolyn Brooks	Old Laughter	Anthology of Negro Poetry	Folkways
	Gwendolyn Brooks	Hollywood - Chicago	Anthology of Negro Poetry	Folkways
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	Carmen McRae	When Sunny Gets Blue	Bittersweet	Focus
	Carmen McRae	How Did He Look?	Bittersweet	Focus
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	Carmen McRae	The Meaning of the Blues	Bittersweet	Focus

Billie's Detour (Dedicated to a genius)

Here is a recent play-list from a broadcast at KDVS in Davis, Ca. I was very graciously joined at the end of the show by the great pianist Matthew Shipp and poet Steve Dalachinsky. The version of Day Dream at the start of the show was the original recording. I followed it with a very interesting arrangement of the Strayhorn composition by pianist Dick Katz for Helen Merrill from the Milestone album, The Feeling Is Mutual. This very fine record has just recently been reissued by Mosaic as a CD with the other album Ms. Merrill recorded with the Katz group for Milestone. The highlight of the show, for me, was the 1951 recording by Billie Holiday of Detour Ahead. From her only session for Alladdin, accompanied by the Tiny Grimes Sextet, the lyric and delivery thereof, have Lady Day at her existential best! Also on this show was the always astounding Mingus Sextet of 1964. This particular group featured Eric Dolphy on alto sax, Johnny Coles at the trumpet, Clifford Jordan on tenor sax, Jaki Byard on piano and Dannie Richmond, of course, on drums. I played the relatively scarce double album Concertgebouw Amsterdam April 10th 1964. I chose Ow (Dedicated to a genius), which is an homage to Charlie Parker. Though I played some Bird before this cut, and even the original Anthropology from Dizzy Gillespie and Don Byas, I realized a musical ambiance more conducive to Ow (Dedicated to a genius) could have been created. I think in the future I will do a show only on Bird and his music concluding with this Mingus masterpiece. As Mingus said at the time, "We're trying to make him live a little bit, here."


Day Dream - Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra
Day Dream - Helen Merrill & Dick Katz
Deep In A Dream - Helen Merrill (duet with Jim Hall)
Something To Remember You By - Thad Jones (duet with Kenny Burrell)
Billie Holiday - Detour Ahead
Billie Holiday - Be Fair To Me Baby
Billie Holiday - Blue Turning Grey Over You
Johnny Griffin Quartet - I Remember You
Louis Smith - Au Privave
Annie Ross - This Time's The Dreams On Me
Annie Ross - Let There Be Love
Chet Baker & Art Pepper - Resonant Emotions
The Metronome All-Stars - Victory Ball
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - Anthropology
Charles Mingus Sextet - Ow (Dedicated to a genius)
Matthew Shipp Trio - Light
Matthew Shipp & Steve Dalachinsky Interview Part 1
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - The Clothed Woman
Matthew Shipp & Steve Dalachinsky Interview Part 2
Matthew Shipp Trio - When The Curtain Falls On The Jazz Theatre

Our Lady

Today we honor the birth of one of the greatest storytellers the world has ever known, the great Lady Day, Miss Billie Holiday. Why one of the world's greatest storytellers? It would be enough that she is universally recognized as the most influential singer in jazz. But in recognizing Billie Holiday, we also recognize the depth, and power, of her emotional authority, and undeniable sense of reality. Those qualities, along with her intense swing, and lyrical embrace of even the most "common" material, rank her among the greatest in the arts of telling a story. And, damn sure telling it like it is. Here is a poem about Billie written by Jayne Cortez;


Billie

Everyone snatched
a piece of her gardenia
to wear in cut flesh
of their gloomy Sunday
Everyone looked
for detours
had premonitions
& forgot
what a little moonlight could do
to a woman standing on
the outside of her body
singing to
the body inside of a song about lynching
Everyone knew about transported spirits
random rooster combs
& the lover man sanctifying in her solitude
But no one wanted to touch
that low fired instantaneous friction sitting
on the inside of outside when she sang
"strange fruit hanging on a poplar tree"


from, The Beautiful Book by Jayne Cortez, Bola Press, New York, 2007