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Show ( " "9s I -ll 2 RECORD SET I rECiL TAYLOR ORNETTE COLEMAN two milestones in jazzi BUELL NEIDLINGER SKIES OF AMERICA rffi iJcu vnpK CITY R&B the london symphony orchestra COLLEGE & JAZZGOESTOJUNIORCOLLEGE EFaTh,E5heppc!ark terry. CONDUCTED BY DAVID MEASHAM AVAILABLE TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME ROSWELLRUDD, STEVE LACEY, including: including: davis BILLY HIGGINS The Military Birthdays And Funerals Out 01 NowherelTakeThe A TrainBru s Blues Siunk CHARLES The Artist In AmericaSkies Of America Don't Worry Bout MeThese Foolish Thinqs utNr"3 The Men Who Live In The White House ,a JmL iiimiijwiwi.tWWWIII'IW''M''i'i"' TheMenwnoLive.ni Ws? '" " KC 31562 mm, KG312MAscec,aHvnncerJ2-recordset $f)97 $57 $119 tJa 4.98 LIST J 5.98 LIST K 6.98 LIST 0 I3ILLIE 1 14 1 II A I An Unhappy Ending. t I I've only cried twice in my Y I'fe in night-clubs. Not from the joy of the occasions. Rath- er, I guess, from my inability JL to watch great artists at the J end of careers. Sad ends. V Once it was a male singer fay who is still around and trying y to make it back. He shall re- main nameless. The other time j it happened in Los Angeles. J Fifteen years ago. "'j, I was then (I still am) of the 'ir opinion that Billie Holiday iii k " ' A.a Several years ago, S, Cfa and I were involved in ,; ect called "The Story of jj Blues." While we sieved through the thousands o(H16 and related material, he told me this bit of magical hLstor). "We were doing a sug, show in Baltimore with Bessie Smith. I was with Jjmmi Lunceford then. We played j lot of poker between shots and she usually sat in. "We'd gotten the five-ni utes-to-curtain-cal! and Kerr cashing in when Bessie saic 'Watch me "walk-one" today.' None of us knew whai sli meant, but halfway through the show we learned. "She'd finished a song and was standing at the side ol ti stage, waiting (or the applaiK to die down. Then, as she If gan her next number, sht seemed to be singing to m man, seated in the tha'rd oi fourth row. Suddenly he stood up, slid to the aisle and iU to the front of the house, il the time staring trance-lite a: Bessie, who kept on sinjitj Then, as she walked alongthe footlights to the other side of the stage, the man follotd until he reached the step. I BESSIE SMITH 1 NOBODY'S BLUES BUT MINI Careless Love Eta ,.00flolrP3tP(!r'11 -'- "He walked up the ' otstepswalke his seat and sat do That woman s blue just hypnotized thai 'walked' him at will The song she was 'Empty Bed Bh -Empty Bed Blu f I " JOHNSON. JAMES P. BRUBECK. DAVE " DIXIELAND HOLIDAY, BILLIE striiV Piane Summit Sessions C J0S2J Tltesaurus Of C4L 11 The Colde. Years C3L21 BYRD. CHARLIE Clusic Jizz .d,t.r,, I. Tim. C 3.626 stri,., The Slue. 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ROBERT Ceacert li The su i. Mil" Dl,i' Fillmore C 3001. ' " 1,1 ""21 (Two Kecord Set) Nobody's Blues But Mine C 31093 Taesaaral Of Classic Jau CL 1654 1 01w ' CS 9129 Tribute to Jack Johnson kC 30455 Date Elliaftaa's CS 9121 Kinf Of The Delta Blaes C 39134 Createst Hits Sinters, Volume II THE M.NGUS II PHIL WOODS I ABBEY LINCOLN feSe RIGHTS OF SWING straight ahead MDMVASSARLEANSTORMY WEATHER FEATURING: CURTIS FULLER, M4)( toR;T W-KiS, BENTON LOCK 'EM UP JULyArKSOLA COtrMANHlCnOT SXZc"- ERIC DOLPHY, ART DAVIS, BOOKER LITTLE, i I J niS!Il!',0'WIU'E DENNIS W " ' was one of the unmatched .'r original singers there aren't enough superlatives to de-scribe de-scribe the depth of her ex- tpression, the ability to communicate, the influence j she has had on other singers. The woman was a magnifi- fi' ' cence. "y Anyway, I had a collection fof most things she had recorded. re-corded. I had heard her in person in New York, in bottle e V clubs in Harlem, in Philadel- "i' phia and other towns, and at A ' a few parties I was privileged "J to attend. 1 was a fan. A buff. ' I was living in Hollywood j. t in 1958. The hot jazz club for f i singers and off-beat comics was fa the Avant-Garde on Third Street. Billie Holiday was ap- ji, i pcaring. Of course I went. I looked forward to a most f i pleasant night. I hadn't caught .. ; Billie in a couple of years. I '-J , was thankful I went. Listening A ! to Billie was always a moving r j experience. But that night was Y ; painful. It was also the last J jj lime I ever saw her. 'y J The room was filled with (.. j other Holiday fans. Billie was .: ' S annount cd and began to sing. There wasn't much left to the ; voice then. But the hurt and y emotion and style came through. At first, f ' Somehow Billie got through the opening number. Forgot a ."ij few lyrics. Ad-libbed lines to Y fill out the song. Struggled to a conclusion. The second num-1: num-1: -j bcr was even worse. More for- Kitting. Less ability to relate fA to what she was doing. Down- y hill. And then the introduc- i lion into the third tune. I (f haven't a thought about what Y , song it was. Billie was strung fa oul- 't was taking total effect. Y i 11 keit KcllinR to l,cr slowly, i j devasiatingly. Somehow she if: sounded like a record slowing Y j down. Slowing down: The Si words became more undistin. Xguisbable. The notes were hardly close. And then, as the ) little group played on, Billie Y just stood there. Blank. Strug-y Strug-y K'lig hir her voite. For lur y , niemoiy. .A nil the spotlight A went out. ) I ricd. Mort (ioode f- " - lKZ3036 t J i037 f ? 1 ' I |