"Billie's Blues" is a
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
song written by
jazz
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singer
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop si ...
, composing it just before being recorded in a session on July 10, 1936.
According to the article in ''
Melody Maker
''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians, by Leicester-born ...
'', on August 1, 1936:
Recording session
* "Did I Remember?"
* "Summertime"
* "No Regrets"
* "Billie's Blues"
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, (
Bunny Berigan, trumpet;
Artie Shaw,
clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound.
Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
;
Joe Bushkin
Joe Bushkin (November 7, 1916 – November 3, 2004) was an American jazz pianist.
Life and career
Born in New York City, Bushkin began his career by playing trumpet and piano with New York City dance bands, including Frank LaMare's Band a ...
, piano; Dick McDonough, guitar; Arthur "Pete" Peterson, bass;
Cozy Cole, drums)
Notable cover versions
*
Blossom Dearie (1957)
*
Carmen McRae (1986)
*
Mary Coughlan (2000)
*
Jazz at the Philharmonic (2004)
Footnotes
Resource
Vladimir, Bogdanov. ''All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues'', Backbeat Books (2003), p. 240,
External links
The Unofficial Billie Holiday Website*
Song: Billie Blues
Billie Holiday songs
1936 songs
1936 singles
Songs written by Billie Holiday
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