Let's hear a little snippet of Pony describing what Billie Holiday was like as a young girl.
The show combines live performances, spoken word and reinterpretations of the legendary Billie Holiday.
It contains every song Billie Holiday ever wrote, plus TV, radio and movie appearances.
At 21, singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart has drawn an unusual mix of comparisons: Billie Holiday, Beck, Tiny Tim.
Biographer Julia Blackburn organized, edited and wrote, based on a series of interviews with people who knew Billie Holiday personally.
Over the years, "My Old Flame" was recorded by Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker practically everybody but Dave Brubeck.
It was 90 years ago that the jazz singer Billie Holiday was born.
But everybody has had some affiliation with Billie Holiday and they love her music and her storytelling and her realness.
But the jazz melodies of Billie Holiday and the lush symphonies of Beethoven were like a visceral experience for me.
His collection includes stunning shots of the musicians he played with, from Billie Holiday to Dinah Washington to Dizzy Gillespie.
Ms. BILLIE HOLIDAY: (Singing) I've been around the world in a plane...
Clark Monroe was the brother-in-law of Billie Holiday's first husband, Jimmy Monroe.
In 1994, she recorded a tribute album to Billie Holiday, Mystery Lady, in partial honor of her mother, who loved Holiday and jazz.
She did not receive her first Grammy Award until 1994, for the album Mystery Lady, which consisted of covers of Billie Holiday songs.
On "Old Sock, " he eases in as vocalist, and it's no surprise he admires Lee and Billie Holiday, singers who worked behind the beat.
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The great Billie Holiday said she thought of herself as a horn when she delivered a tune, reshaping melody and words to increase their impact.
Mr. NASCIMENTO: Yes, like, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Yma Sumac.
In one way only, but a significant way, Mr. Cera reminds me of Billie Holiday, who achieved subtle marvels within a severely limited vocal range.
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Ms. BILLIE HOLIDAY: (Singing) Ooh, what a little moonlight can do.
While listening to her mom's records, Jones fell in love with jazz by way of the Billie Holiday albums she'd play over and over again.
Harry Connick Jr. played an uptempo fast-paced version on the piano in When Harry Met Sally, and the incomparable Billie Holiday gave the song her own unique treatment, carefully enunciating each word in her own special way.
Twenty years after his pioneering "Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, " Schuller turned to the swing era, a glorious period in American music, when Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington developed an idiom that was accessible yet also innovative and artistically satisfying.
Ms. REEVES: Well, there are a lot of songs that I've sung over the years that are songs that I was introduced to by, you know, listening to Billie Holiday and wouldn't ever touch them because, you know, you listen to 'em so much you don't want that interpretation to come out of your mouth.
Among the collection's thousands of metal and lacquer discs and master mono tapes are released and unreleased versions of recordings by such seminal artists as Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday, the Andrews Sisters, Connee Boswell, Jimmy Dorsey, the Mills Brothers, Guy Lombardo, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Waring, Judy Garland, and Dinah Washington, among others.
Ms. BLACKBURN: I think, for me, one of the things that shocked me and led me to want to write a book about Billie Holiday was because every time you pick up a CD or a record or a biography, before they've even begun anything else about her, there was a mention of this drug element in her life.
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