Vídeos

Billie Holiday - Fine and Mellow (1957)
(Videoclip)

8 de diciembre de 1.957. En los estudios de Televisón de la CBS, se graba un programa especial: THE SOUND OF JAZZ. En una de las actuaciones se encuentran de nuevo Billie Holliday y el saxofonista Lester Young. No se hablan desde hace años aunque en el pasado les unió una profunda y entrañable amistad. Durante los ensayos no se dirigen la mirada, se evitan. Billie canta el blues "Fine and Mellow". Llega el turno de Lester. Está enfermo, y a duras penas logra levantarse de la silla. El solo de "Prez" es un emocionado mensaje de amor, tristeza y melancolía. Lady Day contempla a su antiguo amigo y su rostro, que las cámaras no pueden dejar de enfocar, nos habla de complicidad y cariño, de una nostalgia infinita. (de nuestra web amiga Jazz No End)

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Reunited after many years with tenor saxophonist Lester Young, Billie's visual reaction to his moving solo remains as eloquent as anything she ever sang; a touching finale to their historic musical partnership. Introduced by Robert Herridge (producer/host of CBS' "The Sound of Jazz"), this is perhaps the single most famous "live jazz" performance in TV history. Other members of the all-star band seen here: Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Roy Eldridge, Doc Cheatham, Vic Dickenson, Danny Barker, Milt Hinton, Mal Waldron..."We shall not see their likes again."

Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit"
(Videoclip)

Billie Holiday - "The Blues Are Brewin"
A fine video where Lady Day and Satchmo

Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong - Farewell to Storyville

It's a fragment of the film "New Orleans", directed by Arthur Lubin in 1947. This is the saddest part of the film, in my opinion, because everybody is obliged to leave the city they learnt to call a home and that's what this song tell us about.