}); var popupParams = { As Holidays fame grew, so too did her notoriety for being a drug addict. jQuery(wrapper).find('a').removeAttr('href'); Nalley combines music and history in her award-winningTributes to Ella Fitzgerald,Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and Black Broadway. Her playElla: the American Dreampremiered in 2008 and can be viewed onEat My Shorts. Crisp colorized film footage of Holiday with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1950 shows us why she was called the greatest jazz singer ever during her life and now over 100 years after her birth. if(typeof cfJsHost != 'undefined'){ var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb82c45'); FISHER Satisfies the Appetite, Memorable and Best Forgotten Thanksgivings. Like the singer she idolized and identified with, Linda Lipnack Kuehl had her own bad habits, failed relationships and dreams unfulfilled. She lost her cabaret license to perform in New York City nightclubs, thereby limiting her income options. Her archive passed to a private collector and was later used in other writers' biographies of Holiday. Even though she performed a historic sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall after she was let out of prison in 1948 (at the time, Carnegie Hall was a venue for classical and opera music, not jazz), the damage to her reputation was done. Skinny Davenport, a pimp who knew Holiday in her prostitution days, describes how the hookers in the neighborhood were treated: Knock em down, kick em in the ass. Before her death in 1978, Linda Lipnack Kuehl spent eight years trying to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. var popupParams = { [11] "Police deemed it suicide, Kuehl having supposedly jumped from her hotel room, although there was no proof of this",[3] and her family believes she may have been murdered. To describe it any other way is to diminish her musicianship. On 6 February 1978, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl fell from the balcony of a Washington DC hotel. Before completing her work, Kuehl died suddenly in February 1978. The documentary Billie, now showing, does not start at Billies birth or death, but rather the date of Linda Kuehls death. She was the singer for Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, who were all white. Function: view, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/controllers/Main.php var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb83722'); Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. The Official Billie Holiday website maintained by the Estate of Billie Holiday and hosted by Concord Jazz. captainForm772606PreloadInterval63c877fb834ac = setInterval(function(){ Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Although she was a heavy user of marijuana, alcohol and cocaine, Holiday was most associated with her use of heroin and other opiates. Kim Nalley, a PHD Candidate in History at University of California Berkeley, is a historian, playwright, and actress and is most known as jazz & blues singer with a powerful, 3 1/2 octave range that can go from operatic to gritty blues on a dime, projection that can whisper a ballad yet is capable of filling a room with no microphone, and the ability to scat blistering solos without ever losing the crowds interest or the intense swing. popupTrigger.click(function(){ } In 1928, Holiday and her mother moved to New York Citys Harlem neighborhood. Keuhl is also remarkable for not trying to angle the information in a Procrustean manner to fit her argument. Kuehl conducted over 150 interviews in the early 1970s, less than two decades after Holidays death in 1959, so the memories of Holiday are still fresh and free from todays prejudices. var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb82c45'); Linda Lipnack Kuehl . }, 10); The testimonies of those who knew Holiday before she became famous help make up for that deficiency. Earl Zaiding, who was Holidays lawyer, calls McKay a pathological liar.. Line: 479 } The tapes have never [] Read the full article: Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Billie Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Glasgow Film Festival 2020: Anderson Falls Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. Consistently entertaining, Billie is really about the writer and subject of the . The director James Erskine does a great job inserting commentary during relevant moments. Linda Lipnack Kuehl IMDbPro Starmeter See rank Help contribute to IMDb. Line: 478 There was a rebellious engine inside both of them. The conditions for African Americans were much more dismal than many people realize and Holidays struggles stand on their own. Eleven years after Billie Holiday died at the age of 44, from heart failure due to drug and alcohol abuse, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, a Lady Day devotee, interviewed as many people as. if (document.getElementById('captainform_js_global_vars') == null) { Holiday grew up in Baltimore, poor and lonely her father had abandoned her and her mother was often absent due to work. }); She wanted to sing. var append_element = append_element || function(e){if(void 0==e)return!1;if(! The official cause of death was ruled a suicide, but her younger sister Myra Luftman (who is not interviewed on camera) says in the documentary that Kuehl probably died from foul play because of the research that Keuhl was doing for the book. It turned me on., Although Holiday had several male and female lovers, only one woman is mentioned in the documentary as being one of her paramours: actress Tallulah Bankhead. Her family, however, believed otherwise. At one point, she began to receive strange, threatening calls. popupTrigger.click(function(){ One thing everyone agrees on is that Holiday grew up rough and grew up fast, which undoubtedly shaped the person she became later in life. jQuery(wrapper).find('a').removeAttr('href'); var captainformDomReady = captainformDomReady || function(e){var t=!1,n=function(){document.addEventListener? } }); Strange Fruit was banned from radio airplay in certain areas, and many venues forbid Holiday from performing the song. if(typeof cfJsHost != 'undefined'){ var captainformDomReady = captainformDomReady || function(e){var t=!1,n=function(){document.addEventListener? elementType: "script", } Holidays career spanned 30 years. var popupTrigger = jQuery("#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb82c45"); id: "captainform_js_global_vars", In the documentary interview, Hammond says, There was a real problem between Billie and Basie. var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772606EmbedPopup63c877fb829bf'); Despite her early hardships, Billie Holiday pioneered the refinement of microphone technique, minimalism, and jazz phrasing for subsequent generations. window.addEventListener('resize', function(){ The songs that she sings in performance clips include Strange Fruit, Blues Are Brewin' (with Louis Armstrong), Fine and Mellow, My Man (Mon Homme), I Loves You Porgy, God Bless the Child and Dont Explain, the song that Holiday said represented her the best. A frail-looking Holiday is shown holding a glass of alcohol. They got married in 1957. The insightful documentary Billie (directed by James Erskine) is a highly unusual non-fiction film because most of it is based on previously unreleased audio interviews that were conducted in the 1970s. There never was a black critic in swing music. textContent: 'var frmRef=""; try { frmRef=window.top.location.href; } catch(err) {}; var captainform_servicedomain="app.captainform.com";var cfJsHost = "https://";', Kuehl spoke to musicians, obviously, like Shaw and Tony Bennett, but also to more obscure figures those involved in her drug busts and the man who acted as her pimp when she was a teen. [13] Some of Kuehl's material was used in Donald Clarke's 1994 biography, Wishing on the Moon[14] and her interviews were used in Julia Blackburn's 2005 biography With Billie: a New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day. For some eight years in the 1970s, Kuehl interviewed everyone she could find who had a personal association with Holiday musicians, managers, childhood friends, lovers and FBI agents among. "[9] However, Kuehl did not complete the book. Linda Lipnack Kuehl [1] was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 - February 6, 1978) was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. Holiday was accustomed to being the only woman in a band, but with Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, she felt the pain of racial segregation, since she couldnt she wasnt allowed in whites only public places with the rest of the band, such as restaurants and hotels. [3] In 1978 she was found dead on a Washington, D.C. sidewalk,[3][8][10] after attending a Count Basie concert. Pulled out of school at 11, she worked in a brothel at age 12, and by age 14 she was in Harlem singing at the Hot Cha Club. BILLIE, directed by James Erskine, is a portrait of legendary singer Billie Holiday based on more than 200 audio interviews conducted by journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl in the 1970s.A compelling look at the jazz legend who should never be forgotten. She wanted to retire and care for orphans. jQuery(wrapper).css('top', jQuery(window).height() * 0.4 + wrapper.width() + wrapper.css('padding').replace('px', '') * 2); At times the interviews use words that grate on modern ears. captainformDomReady(function() { Did someone consider the pairs intimacy a threat? var readyStateOverflowInterval; var captainformThemeStyle = {}; }); Many important details of her life and her musical genius have been overshadowed by a lurid interest in her love life and drug use. Missing from this documentary is incisive exploration about exactly what makes Billie Holiday so great musically. [2] Various other writers' biographies on Holiday have drawn upon Kuehl's material, as did the film Billie (2019), which is narrated by Kuehl's recorded interviews. She said of Young, who would become her constant companion: I returned the compliment and called him the President., In a 1972 interview, pianist Jimmy Rowles had this to say about Holiday and Youngs relationship: They had the funniest way of loving each other. Theres also a clip of her role as Endie in the 1947 film New Orleans., Because Billie is told in chronological order of her life, the documentary has a very easy narrative to follow. Lipstick and brow pencil are the hallmark features. Song list and samples here.She portrayed Holiday on stage in C.J.Verburgs play Lady Day in Love. She wasnt like a slut. Several people in the documentary say that New York City doormen (especially on 52nd Street) would regularly supply her with drugs. Review: Billie (2020), an oral history of Billie Holidays life. A new documentary, Billie, will delve into the life of jazz great Billie Holiday with the help of hours of never-before-heard interviews. Along with Count Basie, we were the Royal Family, Holiday said in an archival interview. This documentary offers viewers the rare opportunity to see Billie Holiday through the eyes of those who knew her best. clearInterval(captainForm772605PreloadInterval63c877fb83722); }); [2] Various other writers' biographies on Holiday have drawn upon Kuehl's material, as did the film Billie (2019), which is narrated by Kuehl's recorded interviews. She has also been seen playing folk guitar, singing R&B and spirituals as well as being an avid Lindy Hop and blues dancer. if (document.getElementById('captainform_js_global_vars') == null) { captainformCustomVars['772605'] = ''; Linda Lipnack Kuehl was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. captainformDomReady(function() { In a 1971 interview, Ruby Davis, who was Holidays roommate before the singer was famous, says that Holidays nickname was Mr. Billie Holiday because she was seldom seen with fellas Her mother put it in her mind to be careful [of men] because theyll always break your heart, just like Billies father., Harry Sweets Edison, a trumpeter in the Count Basie Orchestra comments on Holiday: She was like a man, but feminine. John Simmons, who was her bass player and lover, calls her a sex machine. Music conductor Ray Ellis also comments on Holidays sex appeal: I was in love with Billie, not necessarily Billie, but somebody. Her death was ruled a suicide. A la fin des annes 1960, la journaliste Linda Lipnack Kuehl commence une biographie officielle de l'artiste. [4], She was a Jewish feminist[5] and a fan of Billie Holiday. Can an author ever truly separate themselves from their subject? That Holiday took the bottom of the barrel Tin Pan Alley tunes that no one wanted to record and made them works of art is never covered. Contact Us It is maintained is rich with photos, videos, book information, quotes, and, of course, music.Plan to spend some time there. [11] "Police deemed it suicide, Kuehl having supposedly jumped from her hotel room, although there was no proof of this",[3] and her family believes she may have been murdered. jQuery(wrapper).css('top', jQuery(window).height() * 0.4 - wrapper.outerHeight()); window.addEventListener('resize', function(){ We dont call this entertainment. Jazz musician Charles Mingus says Strange Fruit was very impactful because it shows that Holiday was fighting for equality before Martin Luther King. Over the next decade, she tracked down and tape-recorded interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. setTimeout(function () { Afterwards she ran errands at a whorehouse where she heard Bessie Smith records which Holiday claimed to be a seminal influence along with Louis Armstrong. Linda Lipnack Kuehl was writing a biography of Holiday when she died suddenly in 1978, though her family believe she may have been murdered Clarisse Loughrey Friday 13 November 2020 11:03 elementType: "script", Linda Lipnack Kuehl (24. tammikuuta 1940 - 6. helmikuuta 1978) oli yhdysvaltalainen taidetoimittaja New Yorkissa. The project is centered around 200 hours of previously. On tour, especially in the U.S. South, they encountered a lot of vicious racism. She was a perfectionist, according to her sister, which is why it took so long for Kuehl to work on the uncompleted book. 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