Billie Holiday
Posted in Jazz on Jul 4th, 2008 No Comments »
I offered this song, “Miss Brown to You”, here, as a quintessential Billie Holiday recording of the 30s, when she was fresh and unselfconscious – before she got exploited by men, and before she started to get self conscious about what she was doing, and, God forbid, think of herself as an artist. That moment of death for all art.
Here she is, twenty years old, not a care in the world, and the best she ever was
