Saturday, December 08, 2007

Billie Holiday - Fine and Mellow (1957)


Here is Billie Holiday reunited after many years with tenor saxophonist Lester Young. Introduced by Robert Herridge (producer/host of CBS' "The Sound of Jazz"), this is perhaps the single most famous "live jazz" performance in TV history. Other members of the all-star band seen here: Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Roy Eldridge, Doc Cheatham, Vic Dickenson, Danny Barker, Milt Hinton, Mal Waldron.

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