Unembeddable: from October 1953, a radio broadcast from Storyville, George Wein’s jazz club, housed in the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, with Billie Holiday, accompanied by Carl Drinkard, piano; Jimmy Woode, bass; and Peter Littman, drums. Extraordinary musicianship, extraordinary sound quality.
The songs: “I Cover the Waterfront,” “Too Marvelous for Words,” “I Love You, Porgy,” “Them There Eyes,” “Willow Weep for Me,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” and “You Go to My Head.”
Times are hard. Add some music to your day.
Related reading
All OCA Billie Holiday posts (Pinboard)
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Billie Holiday at Storyville
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
comments: 2
it's a little known fact that billie holiday also sang in a restaurant out on the cape.
kirsten
And there was another George Wein Storyville on Cape Cod, as I just discovered.
Post a Comment