Billie Holiday : strange fruit.

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Imprint:[S.l.] : Salt Peanuts, [200-?]
Description:1 videodisc (38 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:English
Series:Modern jazz on DVD
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Format: DVD Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7736534
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Varying Form of Title:Strange fruit
Other authors / contributors:Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
Basie, Count, 1904-1984.
Hale, Corky.
Waldron, Mal, 1925-2002.
Auld, Georgie, 1919-1990
Young, Lester, 1909-1959.
Webster, Ben, 1909-1973.
Hawkins, Coleman.
Glenn, Tyree.
Dickenson, Vic
Osborne, Mary, 1921-1992
Barker, Danny.
Mulligan, Gerry.
Burke, Vinnie, 1921-2002.
Gaudry, Michel, 1928-
Hinton, Milt.
Johnson, Osie.
Knight, Peter, 1917-1985.
Count Basie Orchestra.
Corky Hale Trio.
Notes:Title from container.
"This DVD presents most of Billie Holiday's filmed performances, taken from TV shows filmed between 1950 and 1959."--Container verso.
Billie Holiday, vocals ; with Count Basie (1st-2nd works), Corky Hale (3rd-5th works), Mal Waldron (6th-13th works), piano ; Georgie Auld (6th-8th works), Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins (13th work), tenor saxophones ; Tyree Glenn (6th-8th works), Vic Dickenson (13th work), trombone ; Mary Osborne (6th-8th works), Danny Barker (13th work), guitar ; Gerry Mulligan, baritone (13th work) ; Vinnie Burke (6th-8th works), Michel Gaudry (9th-10th works), Milton Hinton (13th work), upright bass ; Osie Johnson, drums (6th-8th, 13th works) ; Count Basie Orchestra (1st-2nd works) ; Corky Hale Trio (3rd-5th works) ; Peter Knight, orchestra conductor (11th-12th works).
Recorded Aug. 19, 1950 (1st-2nd works), in Los Angeles, Aug. 13, 1956 (3rd-5th works), in Newark, New Jersey, July 10, 1958 (6th-8th works), Paris, Nov. 18, 1958 (9th-10th works), in London, Feb. 24, 1959 (11th-12th works), and in New York, Dec. 8, 1957 (13th work).
DVD.
Standard no.:8436028696093
Publisher's no.:44609 Salt Peanuts
Table of Contents:
  • God bless the child / Herzog, Holiday (2:36)
  • Now baby, or never / Holiday, Lewis (2:14)
  • My man / Charles, Pollack, Yvain (3:21)
  • Please don't talk about me when I'm gone / Clare, Palmer, Stept (1:55)
  • Billie's blues / Holiday (1:30)
  • Easy to remember / Rodgers, Hart (2:56)
  • What a little moonlight can do / Woods (2:27)
  • Foolin' myself / Lawrence, Tinturin (2:24)
  • I only have eyes for you / Dubin, Warren (1:50)
  • Travelin' light / Mercer, Young (3:11)
  • Strange fruit / Allan, Marks (2:23)
  • I loves you Porgy / George & Ira Gershwin (3:24)
  • Fine and mellow / Holiday (8:50).