Billie Holiday is the best jazz singer ever. ⇒
2 February 2006, early evening
Seriously. She is.
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2 February 2006, early evening
Seriously. She is.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
Psst. Billie.
by Matt on February 2 2006, 7:24 pm #
Okay slightly on-topic:
I haven’t been watching the show, but I saw a couple of clips of this season’s American Idol. There are at least 3 incredible singers, with one being outstanding in my opinion.
Paris Bennett does one of my all time favourite songs, Take Five in the style of Billie Holiday. It’s incredible. Also a freebie; Paula Abdul has an aneurysm in that same clip.
(note, Billie Holiday never sang it, tho it sounds like Paris is attributing it to her. Carmen McRea [amazon.com] did the first version with Dave Brubeck, and Thomisina did a tribute album to Billie Holiday)
by Haran on February 2 2006, 7:36 pm #
Thanks Matt, that is fixed. Oh the shame.
And I’ll check the clip out at home. Is this seasons American Idol good? I think my favourite performance on the show is Fantasia Barino singing Summertime.
by ramanan on February 2 2006, 7:41 pm #
I haven’t watched an episode yet. But I checked out that clip via some other website. And they had links to two other singers that were really good too. Don’t remember their names though, sorry.
by Haran on February 2 2006, 8:06 pm #