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Showing posts with label Billie Holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Billie Holiday. Show all posts
Sunday, 1 March 2026
Thursday, 12 June 2025
As Much Trouble
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Sunday, 2 February 2025
Billie Holiday
Thursday, 16 January 2025
Wherever I Go
Lost in the dark
Too soon, too soon
I feel wherever i go
That tomorrow is near
Tomorrow is here
And always too soon
Speak Low
(Kurt Weill)
Billie Holiday
Friday, 18 October 2024
Saturday, 1 June 2024
Monday, 12 February 2024
Don't Explain
Hush now, don't explain
I know you ain't stayin
I'm glad you're back
Don't explain
I know you ain't stayin
I'm glad you're back
Don't explain
Billie Holiday
Don't Explain
(Herzog/Holiday)
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Billie Holiday
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Heard Her Voice

I heard her voice (and) i dug it. I was in love with that voice and i was picturing evil, sensuous, sultry, very evil ........ probably one of the most evil voices i've heard in my life ..... Evil is earthy to me. When you say someone is evil, it means very, very bad. I don't mean bad.
Ray Ellis
(on Billie Holiday)
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Tuesday, 3 January 2023
Thursday, 18 February 2021
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Saturday, 2 January 2021
Sunday, 13 September 2020
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Her Last Song
Behind me, Billie was on her last song. I picked up the refrain, humming a few bars. Her voice sounded different to me now. Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter. I heard a willingness to endure. Endure - and make music that wasn't there before.
Barrack Obama
Billie Holiday's Funeral
July 21st 1959
Thursday, 30 July 2020
Friday, 24 April 2020
A Real Place
It is a real place and for much of the century it has provided a global home for millions of people. It is a republic with a simple name : Jazz.
But Beautiful
Geoff Dyer
1991
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