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| Alan Price Set, The | ...A six-part series in which Alan Price, founder of the Animals, embarks on a personal musical journey. 5:`Justice'. In this programme, he focuses on songs with a social message, and recalls Bob Dylan, Lindsay Anderson, and Morecambe and Wise. With music by Marvin Gaye, BILLIE HOLIDAY, Jimmy Witherspoon and Alan himself.... |
| All Of Me Tempting | ...... |
| Angel Of Harlem - The Billie Holiday Story | |
| Blagger's Guide To Jazz, The | ...David Quantick continues his fast-paced, comical guide to the mystical, magical & misunderstood world of jazz. Tonight he covers BILLIE HOLIDAY, jazz bass and free jazz.... |
| Blues To The Bone | ...Singer, Sugar Pie Desanto talks about Etta's wicked sense of humour and tour manager, Phil Kaufman, relates a few humorous anecdotes about the chaos involved in being on the road with Etta. In 1988, Etta signed to Island Records and Tony Rounce talks about this time, and how she collaborated with singer Steve Winwood on the track, Give It Up. One of Etta's biggest influences was BILLIE HOLIDAY, and she only met her once, when she warned Etta to stay clear of drugs. Her BILLIE HOLIDAY tribute album, Mystery Lady, won Etta her first Grammy, and is even more poignant with Etta falling into the same trap as her heroine, who as Etta explains, she heard through her mother's love for Holiday's music. Guitarist Josh Sklair is still haunted by the beauty of this recording 12 years later.... |
| Chris Barber's Jazz Diaries | ...Last in a seven-part series recalling significant years in jazz history. The year 1935 saw 52nd Street become the jazz centre of NEW YORK and BILLIE HOLIDAY make her screen debut.... |
| Echoes Of Harlem | ...George Melly concludes his tracing the development of jazz and blues in Harlem. He chats with old friend Annie Ross, who reminisces about her close friendship with BILLIE HOLIDAY, and visits the African-American Wax and History Museum, run by Raven Chanticleer.... |
| Jazz Century | ...If the 20th century is the jazz century, it is also the century of popular song, and the two traditions necessarily shared some territory. The 1930s marked the start of Ella Fitzgerald's recording career, and the incomparable BILLIE HOLIDAY was producing some of her finest work.... |
| Jazz House, The | ...Stephen Duffy presents a special edition of the Jazz House marking this year's Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, and focusing on mental health issues and the importance of music as an aid to well-being and recovery. Many of the leading players from the world of jazz have experienced mental health problems, including BILLIE HOLIDAY, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Chet Baker and Albert Ayler. Expect a lively mix of music, chat and analysis.... |
| Jazz House | ...Stephen Duffy and Richard Michael present a special Legends of Jazz edition featuring music from Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, BILLIE HOLIDAY and others.... |
| Jazz Library | ...Singer Christine Tobin guides Alyn Shipton through the best work from BILLIE HOLIDAY's early and late career.... |
| Jazz Record Requests | ...... |
| Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats | ...BILLIE HOLIDAY... |
| Mark Steel Lecture, The | ...BILLIE HOLIDAY... |
| Melly Talks Jazz | ...George Melly presents a musical chat show for fans of jazz and blues. With guest lyricist Don Black, whose musical selections include Oscar Brown Jnr and BILLIE HOLIDAY.... |
| Melly's Maidens | ...George Melly takes a critical look at the life and art of six great 20th-century female vocalists. This third programme focuses on BILLIE HOLIDAY ... |
| Music Club Introduces | ...Adele cites her influences as diverse as Etta James, Jill Scott, Bjork, Dusty Springfield, Billy Bragg, BILLIE HOLIDAY, Jeff Buckley, The Cure and Peggy Lee.... |
| My Kind Of Music [radio Ulster] | ...... |
| Oscar Peterson - Jazz Giant | ...Marian McPartland presents a portrait of jazz giant Oscar Peterson. 5: The Great Singers. This programme explores Peterson's role as accompanist to some of the greatest singers in jazz, as he talks about some of those outstanding recordings, also remembered by his bassist Ray Brown. Featuring the voices of BILLIE HOLIDAY and Stan Getz.... |
| Pick Of The Week | ...All of Me: the Betrayal of BILLIE HOLIDAY - Radio 2... |
| Pieces Of A Man | ...Following in the footsteps of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, The Black Arts movement and jazz and blues musicians such as John Coltrane and BILLIE HOLIDAY, Gil Scott-Heron helped pioneer the plight for racial equality and developed a new way of fusing music with hard-hitting political poetry. His story reflects the modern African-American struggle, from segregation in the South to triumph in the White House.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley is joined by the scholar, biographer and art historian FRANCEs Spalding, who has written extensively on members of the Bloomsbury Group. Her latest book is a much-acclaimed biography of the wood engraver Gwen Raverat - a friend of Rupert Brooke and Lytton Strachy and the granddaughter of Charles Darwin. Spalding's musical choices include church and educational music and works by Vivaldi, Glinka, Mussorgsky and BILLIE HOLIDAY ... |
| Something Understood [world Service] | ...This week’s edition of Something Understood is presented by the Canadian broadcaster Chris Brookes. Recently, he received payment for one of his programmes in the form of a tab, set up at his local pub in St John’s, Newfoundland. This set him wondering about the nature and value of payments in cash and in kind. He draws upon poems by Benjamin Zephaniah and others, music by Martin Carthy, Ernest Bloch and BILLIE HOLIDAY and reflections on life in Newfoundland to explore the two main currencies that we deal in - money and human kindness. That’s The Currency Exchange, this week’s Something Understood.... |
| Take Two | ...BILLIE HOLIDAY And Lester Young... |
| Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan [6 Music] | ...Bob plays songs by The Memphis Jug Band, Eric Donaldson, Perez Prado and BILLIE HOLIDAY... |
| Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan | ...Bob goes bananas and picks fruit as this show's theme. Tracks include Tutti Frutti by Little Richard, Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles and Strange Fruit by BILLIE HOLIDAY.... |
| Torch Singers, The | ...Eartha Kitt presents a six-part series on the torch song. The first programme looks at the wide range of torch singing, from 20s stars like Helen Morgan to BILLIE HOLIDAY, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and Madonna.... |
| With Billie | ...A biography of BILLIE HOLIDAY, told through the voices of those who knew the great singer.... |
| Words And Music | ...There’s a great deal of music that can be related to unrequited love. Brahms and Berlioz come to mind for their devotions to Clara Schumann and Harriet Smithson respectively. BILLIE HOLIDAY had to be there not just for the song – she sings ‘Love me or Leave me’ here – but for her own life and that voice that carries so much loss and pain so beautifully. The plangent dissonances of early string music are so reminiscent of the pains and stabs of love, and I’ve included music by Gibbons and Biber. To finish, I have included the quintet from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger where Hans Sachs, one of the most humane and complex of all operatic characters sings of how ‘the heart’s sweet burden had to be subdued’ and renounces his love for Eva.... |