Billie Holiday Archives - Paul – and some of that Jazz

From the Record Shelves #168 – My Fightin’ Gal – Here’s a rough blues from 1940 with Oran “Hot Lips” Page, trumpet and vocal, accompanied by a trio consisting of Leonard Feather, piano, Teddy Bunn, guitar and Ernest “Bass” Hill on bass (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #138 – A Sailboat in the Moonlight. This LP was my introduction to Billie Holiday. My big sister got it for Christmas. She woke up with a big neck pain on Christmas Day and had to stay in bed. So we listened to this over and over again. I found (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #125 – Everything I Have Is Yours. This well produced CD contains vocals by 18 crooners, some of them like Gene Austin worthy of more remembrance today. The angle of the album is to present music from the art deco era, and we get (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #95 – Don’t Give Me Sympathy. According to Edmond Hall himself, this nice little song was one that they often sang and played at home when he was small, and it stems from the 1890s. Home was in Reserve, Louisiana but Edmond (…) read more and listenread more and listen