A musician's musician with a radiant voice, an impeccable sense of time and subtle, often ironic delivery, Billie ... Benny Goodman. Through her association with Hammond, Holiday became, for ...

MUSIC CLIP - BENNY GOODMAN , “WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO” Mark Chilla here on Afterglow. On this show, we’re celebrating Billie Holiday by looking at some of her records where she was ...

When Billie Holiday died in 1959 ... Honorary pallbearers included such jazz greats as Benny Goodman and Mary Lou Williams. Newspapers and magazines ran heartfelt tributes. But where is Holiday ...

And Billie Holiday started seeing her songs on them, beginning in 1934 with “Riffin’ the Scotch.” That track came from a late ’33 session led by Benny Goodman, and it went all the way to ...

Producer John Hammond saw Holiday perform and was captivated by her powerful presence. He introduced her to bandleader Benny Goodman. Billie Holiday sang the truth but she paid the price.

Coming up, we’ll hear Goodman’s work with singers like Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Mildred Bailey, and Dick Haymes. It’s Sing, Sing, Sing: Benny Goodman and the Singers, coming up on ...

Corrections & Clarifications: The date Billie Holiday starred in the ... her first commercial recording session with Benny Goodman. 17. In 1935, Holiday starred alongside Duke Ellington in the ...

Reporting from San Diego — Mundell Lowe, the guitar master whose many musical partners included Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman and the Everly Brothers, died ...

Harry Sheppard’s first act featured collaborations with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and other jazz legends. His second act was set far from New ...

Born Eleanora Fagan in 1915, Billie Holiday spent much of her young life ... with a range of great jazz musicians, including Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, and most ...

Billie Holiday will always be admired for her ability to communicate ... He swiftly organized a recording session with the Benny Goodman Orchestra in November of 1933. Next, Hammond arranged some ...