Lew's Billie Holiday Research Wins ASCAP Award
Hello Friends,
You can read the award-winning article now at the link provided below. Also please know that I will very soon be posting it here, in installments, in a slightly expanded version. This is not my research on Billie’s improvisations, which I’ve already been posting, nor any of my other Billie research yet to come. The article that won the award is about the Billie Holiday movie starring Andra Day—and in it I prove beyond a doubt that just about everything in that film is totally and shamefully false.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2022-- Recently named winners of the 53rd annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards for outstanding print, broadcast, liner notes, new media and radio coverage of music span a wide range of musical subjects.….
The Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism in the pop music field recognizes Lewis Porter for his "The United States vs. Billie Holiday vs. the Truth,” published in JazzTimes.
congrats!
Many congratulations Lewis!
And richly deserved. Your forensic, informative and entertainingly-written research is an inspiration to many fellow jazz scribes!