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Billie Holiday Was VERY Involved in Creating Lady Sings the Blues, 2
In Part 1 (see the Index), we examined some of the common arguments that are used by authors in and outside of academia to “prove” that Holiday was not…
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Billie Holiday, For Her Birthday: She Was VERY Involved in Creating Lady Sings the Blues, 1
As you know from my many previous posts on Billie Holiday, I am a huge advocate for her and her work. But it always amazes me that sometimes when other…
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Billie Holiday, The Arranger, Part 3: "Them There Eyes" Through the Years
I’ve shown in Part 1 and Part 2 that Holiday designed many, maybe most, of her arrangements of songs, even though that has never previously been…
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Billie Holiday, The Arranger, Part 2: Ellington, Armstrong, and "Them There Eyes"
In the previous installment I presented evidence that Holiday was very involved in creating her versions—her arrangements—of each song. Today let’s take…
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Billie Holiday, The Arranger! Part 1: Overview
This is my ninth post presenting my previously unpublished research on Billie Holiday. (You can easily find the others by scrolling through previous…
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BILLIE HOLIDAY The Improviser, Part 3: "All of Me"
With a note about women instrumentalists
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Billie Holiday: There was Never a Federal Campaign against "Strange Fruit"—Finale, Part 4 of 4
Other Falsehoods in the Movie, and Closing Thoughts
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About Updates to My Posts—with an update to Billie Holiday "Strange Fruit," Part 3 (+Bonus)
Hello Friends, I am always researching, and sometimes I make slight edits after I’ve already posted an article. Usually I am just tweaking the language…
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Billie Holiday: There was Never a Federal Campaign against "Strange Fruit"--Part 3 of 4, UPDATED
The Reception of “Strange Fruit”
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Billie Holiday: There was Never a Federal Campaign against "Strange Fruit"--Part 2 of 4
The origin of the falsehood.
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Billie Holiday: There was Never a Federal Campaign against "Strange Fruit"--Part 1 of 4
NOTE: This series is an expanded version of my article that was originally published in Jazz Times magazine, and I thank the editor Mac Randall for his…
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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…
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