Holidays boxer dog was used as a way to transport drugs underneath the dogs collar. formId: '772605' The film highlights a review that scathingly derides Billie for being heavy reminding us that draconian female standards of beauty have been around for a long time. Meanwhile, Basie doesnt offer much insight about Holiday in his interview commentary, because he claims he didnt really know what was going on when she was in his band. FISHER Satisfies the Appetite, Memorable and Best Forgotten Thanksgivings. The Billie documentary gives added depth to Holidays memoir, since it includes the perspectives of people who talk about things that Holiday didnt want to talk about in her book. But, for the most part, hes squandered it. Strange Fruit was banned from radio airplay in certain areas, and many venues forbid Holiday from performing the song. [2] Kuehl was an experienced arts journalist who wrote for The Paris Review and The New York Times Sunday magazine. She had not performed with nor seen him in years and her delight is plain. Presentations and performance on Billie Holiday include: Rethinking Billie Holiday on her Centennial (Google Talk), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism with Angela Davis (SFJAZZ), Your email address will not be published. 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. She was a highly talented and unique star, but she also complicated and deeply troubled. var captainformDomReady = captainformDomReady || function(e){var t=!1,n=function(){document.addEventListener? Consistently entertaining, Billie is really about the writer and subject of the . else if ('' == 'right') Kuehl is remarkable for interviewing lesser known people who had a lot of contact with Lady Day. The scene in Harlem was dense with famous clubs, famous musicians and a seemingly endless supply of white patrons eager to slum and see African American entertainment. [1], Last edited on 23 September 2022, at 00:47, "Billie documentary review an oral history of Billie Holiday", "Singer, activist, sex machine, addict: the troubled brilliance of Billie Holiday", "Billie is a fanatical yet fascinating portrait of an immortal talent", "Billie a powerful documentary about the life of the singer", "Documentary Billie squanders its incendiary premise review", "Biography covers range of a vocalist (Published 2005)", "Billie review a double tragedy of destruction and obsession", "One Scats, the Other Doesn't (Published 1994)", "Observer review: With Billie by Julia Blackburn", "Billie review a truer, historical spin on the great Billie Holiday", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linda_Lipnack_Kuehl&oldid=1111802271, This page was last edited on 23 September 2022, at 00:47. var append_element = append_element || function(e){if(void 0==e)return!1;if(! She was 38. 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. However, drummer Jo Jones has a entirely different recollection of why Holiday parted ways with Basie. [4], She was a Jewish feminist[5] and a fan of Billie Holiday. 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. Her death was ruled as a suicide. The most important takeaway from Jo Jones is that anyone who believes music has no color negates the experiences of African American musicians who lived with racism dictating almost every aspect of their lives. } Her predilection for weed, opium and coke gave them the excuse to hound her relentlessly. She wanted to sing. The song she chose exposed discrimination, [by] putting it on stage., Jazz/swing singer Billy Eckstine says that one of the biggest racial inequality problems that black artists had to deal with was that their music was being controlled and judged by white people. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 February 6, 1978)[1] was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. She also got a lot of abuse and harassment from racists they encountered. var popupTrigger = jQuery("#captainformForm772606EmbedPopup63c877fb829bf"); Although it may seem counterintuitive to have more audio only interviews for a film documentary instead of videos, we quickly hear the ease and genuineness in the interviewees voices. 9.45pm, BBC Two Director James Erskine brings this detailed, fascinating documentary charting the tumultuous life of jazz singer Billie Holiday, based on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted. }); }, true); Sign up for a chance to win prizes (such as free gift cards) and get priority alerts or invitations to the hottest lifestyle/culture news, discounts and promotions. Various biographies on Holiday have drawn upon Kuehl's material. var captainformThemeStyle = {}; Holiday's beauty and misery made her into a tragic figure to everyone except Linda Lipnack Kuehl. Over the next decade, she tracked down and tape-recorded hundreds of hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. For eight years in the 1970s, a journalist named Linda Lipnack Kuehl researched a biography of Billie Holiday, interviewing as many of the great jazz chanteuse's friends, relatives and . } Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/page/index.php Then, before she could finish her biography, Kuehl died: In 1978, her body was found on a Washington, D.C. street. Kuehl had dedicated the last eight years of her life to a biography of jazz singer Billie Holiday, whose rich, sensuous voice had been steeped in a lifetime of pain. Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/page/index.php } }); There might also be a tad too much focus on the woman who made those 125 cassettes, Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who was clearly a gifted writer and smart interviewer. Missing from this documentary is incisive exploration about exactly what makes Billie Holiday so great musically. Holidays career spanned 30 years. She was sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Jazz singer Billie Holidays rich, sensuous voice had been steeped in a lifetime of pain. The documentary Billie, now showing, does not start at Billies birth or death, but rather the date of Linda Kuehls death. [3] In 1978 she was found dead on a Washington, D.C. sidewalk,[3][8][10] after attending a Count Basie concert. clearInterval(captainForm772605PreloadInterval63c877fb82c45); [11][14][15] Documentary director James Erskine bought the rights to Kuehl's tapes[3] and his subsequent film, Billie (2019), is "a journey through Holiday's life, narrated by the voices on those tapes",[3][14][16][17] including Kuehl's. 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Both died young Holiday at age 44, of liver cirrhosis. The Official Billie Holiday website maintained by the Estate of Billie Holiday and hosted by Concord Jazz. [3], Interviews that Kuehl conducted with writers were published in The Paris Review in 1972 and 1978. That voice. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. ("elementType"in e))return!1;var n=null;if(n=e.following?e.following.parentElement:e.inside?e.inside:e.replacing?e.replacing.parentElement:"script"==e.elementType?document.head:document.body,null==n)return!1;var l=document.createElement(e.elementType);delete e.elementType,l=jQuery.extend(l,e),e.replacing?n.replaceChild(l,e.replacing):n.appendChild(l)}; 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. A frail-looking Holiday is shown holding a glass of alcohol. 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. }, 50); Her romances didnt get any better. captainformThemeStyle['772605'] = ''; Holidays light brown skin contrasts dramaticallywith her dark dresses, and smooth-straightened glossy dark hair and the white gardenias (or lily or orchid.) For news, music (including some previously unreleased live recordings), complete discography, videos and much more visitKims websiteand many more performances can be found on herYouTube channel. captainform_preload_form_popup(popupParams); In Holidays case we could also add being female to that equation as well. Her career of 30 years has no breaks, stops or retreats into obscurity. In his estimation, Holiday was a psychopath strictly in the sense that she was ruled by impulse. function resize77260563c877fb83722(wrapper){ She spoke to Holidays friends, and to those who had been there for the most transformative chapters of her life. captainform_create_form_popup(popupParams); 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 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. Recently some articles based on faulty interviews emphasize her persecution in Hoovers war on drugs without realizing this was a fact of life for all African American jazz musicians. Is it possible to tell someone elses story without, invariably, telling our own? The director James Erskine does a great job inserting commentary during relevant moments. 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. Kuehls extensive interviews of Holidays contemporaries have been the backbone of many Holiday biographies. Required fields are marked *. resize77260563c877fb83722(wrapper); They were all gathered by Linda Lipnack Kuehl, the late journalist who spent a decade in the Sixties and Seventies talking to those who knew Holiday best, conducting more than 125 interviews and . In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. These incredible testimonies reveal Holiday's . Did someone consider the pairs intimacy a threat? textContent: 'var frmRef=""; try { frmRef=window.top.location.href; } catch(err) {}; var captainform_servicedomain="app.captainform.com";var cfJsHost = "https://";', Music producer Marty Gabler says in the documentary that Columbia Records didnt want to release Strange Fruit because of the social content and because of how unusual it was to do a protest song. Strange Fruit is considered historically important because it was one of the first social justice songs released by a mainstream performer prior to the U.S. civil rights movement. Line: 68 }, 50); Her second drug bust came in San Francisco in 1949, but she didnt get any prison time for that arrest. var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772606EmbedPopup63c877fb834ac'); The project is centered around 200 hours of previously. In the late '60s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie. Wells, African Americans were most often lynched because they were financially successful or not deferential enough. A talented journalist who wrote a biography about the songstress 20 years after her gradual death, Kuehl dedicated a decade to interviewing the friends and artists who knew Holiday best. Over 8 years, she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. captainformThemeStyle['772606'] = ''; jQuery(wrapper).css('top', jQuery(window).height() * 0.4 - wrapper.outerHeight()); var popupTrigger = jQuery("#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb83722"); Your email address will not be published. Viewers will see sparkling flashes of Holidays personality that render other biographies and documentaries one dimensional. There were reports that McKay was very controlling and unscrupulous when it came to Holidays finances. Kuehl was and still is, posthumously, THE preeminent biographer of Billie Holiday, despite never having completed Holiday's biography before she died in 1978. The years with Teddy Wilson that brought her to fame are barely discussed. Theres a lingering sense that Kuehl understood something deeper, but Billie never seems all that curious to find out what that might be. A side by side comparison of a pop singer singing a Billie Holiday tune compared to Billies version would have illuminated exactly why Holiday is a genius musically. KUEHLLinda (Lipnack). Instead we hear the voices of personal friends and colleagues who often played with Holiday, such as Count Basie and Artie Shaw. Show more 3 months left to watch 1 hour, 30 minutes Last on. She did not see [Billie Holiday] as the victim, which is the way she had been portrayed.. The first of the two films - "Billie" is a documentary built around some previously unheard audio interviews conducted by Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who was working on a comprehensive biography on Billie Holiday before her untimely death in 1978.Ms. The book was never completed, but the tapes have been . [6] In 1971, she began plans for a biography of Holiday, who had died aged 44 in 1959. jQuery(wrapper).css('top', jQuery(window).height() * 0.4 - wrapper.outerHeight()); var captainformThemeStyle = {}; Cafe Society owner Barney Josephson says that it wasnt unusual for white customers to walk out of the club and complain if Holiday performed the song. UNSUNG HEROES THROUGH THE NIGHT- Special Free Screening Thursday, Jan. 19, NEW YEARS CHEER- A Nostalgic Look at Past New Years Through Images, Movies and Music, They Were Calling It the Twentieth Century, THE ART OF EATING: THE LIFE OF M.F.K. captainformDomReady(function() { Line: 478 if ('' == 'left') The documentary will thread her story through the eyes of one of her most enamored fans, Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who, in 1971, set out to write a definitive biography. Her scholarly papers on Billie Holiday include: Two Gardenias for Civil Rights: Robin Carsons photo of Billie Holiday (read it here), This Bitter Earth: Infertility for Billie, Ella and Sarah. id: "captainform_js_global_vars", else if ('' == 'right') popupTrigger.click(function(){ Holidays mother Sadie (who took an interested in her daughters career) was nicknamed Duchess. "She excited me with just three notes," drummer Roy Harte tells Kuehl. }); captainformDomReady(function() { Its an incendiary piece of prologue for James Erskines thorough, informative documentary, simply titled Billie. Kuehl had even grown close to some of her interview subjects, including Holidays former bandleader Count Basie. A more pertinent flaw would be the ending montage which shows images of current racism against African Americans over Drummer Papa Jo Jones voice. Then there's the story of journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who had been working on a biography of Holiday for nearly a decade before she met her own untimely death in 1978. 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. captainForm772606PreloadInterval63c877fb834ac = setInterval(function(){ Linda Lipnack Kuehl (24. tammikuuta 1940 - 6. helmikuuta 1978) oli yhdysvaltalainen taidetoimittaja New Yorkissa. function resize77260663c877fb834ac(wrapper){ [3] In 1978 she was found dead on a Washington, D.C. sidewalk,[3][8][10] after attending a Count Basie concert. Basies saxophonist Lester Young is credited with giving Holiday the nickname Lady Day. Several people in the documentary say that New York City doormen (especially on 52nd Street) would regularly supply her with drugs. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 - February 6, 1978) was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. According to Ida B. Most Popular So, in the late 1960s journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of. gallery of images and videos of both singers. Add or change photo on IMDbPro Add to list More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Credits Edit IMDbPro Archive Footage Previous 1 Billie Self (archive footage) 2019 Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content Lipstick and brow pencil are the hallmark features. if('' == 'floating') { Kuehl was an experienced arts journalist who wrote for The Paris Review and The New York Times Sunday magazine. Linda Lipnack Kuehl . Not everyone wanted to share their memories with her. var popupTrigger = jQuery("#captainformForm772606EmbedPopup63c877fb834ac"); append_element({ She sang in clubs in Harlem and. The next thing I know, she was using coke.. resize77260563c877fb82c45(wrapper); She interviewed and interviewed. It is similar to how the documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is as much about Mark Bittner as the parrots. Function: _error_handler, Message: Invalid argument supplied for foreach(), File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php The Last Dance, which chronicles the rise of basketball superstar Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls, won the documentary series Emmy ahead of American Masters, Hillary, McMillion$ and. function resize77260663c877fb829bf(wrapper){ [3]. When asked if the stories were true that Holiday had to darken her skin when performing with Basie and his band, because she was so much lighter-skinned then they were, Basie also claims ignorance about that issue. captainformThemeStyle['772606'] = ''; Billie feels typical, even if its attention to detail gives it an obvious appeal. The images of her are legion. [6] In 1971, she began plans for a biography of Holiday, who had died aged 44 in 1959. jQuery(wrapper).css('top', jQuery(window).height() * 0.4 + wrapper.width() + wrapper.css('padding').replace('px', '') * 2); 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. He was like a visitor, but she was too.. Holiday, who died of heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver at age 44 in 1959, was an iconic jazz singer who was also one of the first African American entertainers to record music speaking out against racial injustice. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Her make-up is minimal. Culture Mix Survey The woman responsible for those interviews was the journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who took it upon herself in 1971 to begin the years-long process of researching a biography. if (document.getElementById('captainform_js_global_vars') == null) { In the documentary interview, Hammond says, There was a real problem between Billie and Basie. [7][3][8] Her archive on Holiday included these interviews on 125 audio tapes[8] as well as "a long paper trail, including police files, transcripts of court cases, royalty statements, shopping lists, hospital records, private letters, muddled transcripts and fragments of unfinished chapters. var captainformThemeStyle = {}; if('' == 'floating') { {{ #verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ ^verifyErrors }}Something went wrong. Dcouvrez la bande annonce du film Billie : BILLIE HOLIDAY est l'une des plus grandes voix de tous les temps. After moving to Harlem, she started singing in the local nightclubs, where she was eventually discovered by producer John Hammond. [1], File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php Nalleysmany philanthropic endeavors include founding theKim Nalley Black Youth Jazz Scholarshipat the California Jazz Conservatory. By the early Forties, she had worked with Basie and Artie Shaw. The problems became too much for her, and she quit working with Artie Shaw and His Orchestra. popupTrigger.click(function(){ var popupParams = { She was high profile, successful, and the opposite of small. captainformDomReady(function() { She was a generous person, Id say, in thought anyway. Tarkoituksena oli kirjoittaa Billie Holidayn elmkerta , hn haastatteli ystvi, muita esiintyji ja Holidayn elmn avainhenkilit, mutta kuoli ennen sen valmistumista. }; 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. Kuehl was twice-divorced with no children, while Basie was married with children. A 1947 shootout with cops in Philadelphia led to Holidays first arrest for narcotics possession. popupTrigger.click(function(){ The story of Billie Holiday's rise to fame after a difficult upbringing is nothing new. Kuehl spend eight years interviewing the artist's friends, relatives, peers, business associates, even an FBI narcotics agent and a prison corrections officer, accruing 200 hours of . [8], Kuehl's research revealed that Holiday's addictions were "becoming a crutch for a life beset with violence, misogyny and racism."[2]. setTimeout(function () { Courtesy of the Kuehl family. (document.removeEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",d),window.removeEventListener("load",d)):(document.detachEvent("onreadystatechange",d),window.detachEvent("onload",d))},d=function(){t||!document.addEventListener&&"load"!==event.type&&"complete"!==document.readyState||(t=!0,n(),e())};if("complete"===document.readyState)e();else if(document.addEventListener)document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",d),window.addEventListener("load",d);else{document.attachEvent("onreadystatechange",d),window.attachEvent("onload",d);var o=!1;try{o=null==window.frameElement&&document.documentElement}catch(a){}o&&o.doScroll&&!function c(){if(!t){try{o.doScroll("left")}catch(d){return setTimeout(c,50)}t=!0,n(),e()}}()}}; Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Biography submission guide. I think she felt the pain of someones struggles. She also began hanging out at a brothel, which is where she first heard jazz music. The documentary includes archival news video footage of Joan Allen, a correctional officer who worked at the federal rehabilitation facility in Alderston, West Virginia, where Holiday served her prison time. 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. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 February 6, 1978)[1] was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. Over the next decade, she tracked down and tape-recorded interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. } }, 10); if('' == 'floating') { setTimeout(function () { I would expect that at least they could have found a child with the same coloring as Holiday. Billie certainly encompassed both requirements. When they reach the top, something tragic happens.. MTT invited her to sing a program of Gershwin with the San Francisco Symphony and she subsequently became a Rounder Records recording artist and went on a worldwide tour gracing concert halls from Moscow to Lincoln Center and festivals from Umbria Jazz to Monterey Jazz garnering effusiveinternational press and many awards. }, 10); The project is centered around 200 hours of previously. Line: 192 The testimonies of those who knew Holiday before she became famous help make up for that deficiency. She was terribly worried about whether or not God would forgive her.. I do not see the same attention given to Miles Daviss or Charlie Parkers drug use or their abusive relationships. Read jazz pianist Richard Fregulias review of Billie. Jo Jones says bitterly and vehemently, Holiday was persecuted less for the song Strange Fruit or drugs and more for being an uppity Negress who lived large wearing furs, diamonds, driving a Cadillac and spending money freely. Please try again later{{ /verifyErrors }}, Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in, Please refresh your browser to be logged in, Documentary Billie squanders its incendiary premise, Extra 20% off selected fashion and sportswear at Very, Extra 20% off sale using this QVC discount code, Up to 20% off and extra perks with Booking.com Genius membership, $5 off a $20+ order with this AliExpress discount code, 15% off selected items using this eBay discount code, Compare broadband packages side by side to find the best deal for you, Compare cheap broadband deals from providers with fastest speed in your area, All you need to know about fibre broadband, Best Apple iPhone Deals in the UK January 2023, Compare iPhone contract deals and get the best offer this January, Compare the best mobile phone deals from the top networks and brands. var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772606EmbedPopup63c877fb834ac'); She was discovered by Michael Tilson Thomas while singing to packed audiences live with no amplification at San Franciscos Alta Plaza. Having a camera in ones face automatically creates artifice or at least a self-consciousness that is less present in an audio-only interview, especially one conducted after ones concert, over a drink. 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. For the biography, Kuehl set out to interview hundreds of people, ranging from band members and pimps (Holiday . She created Freedoms Song: Music of the Civil Rights Movement and was musical director and curator for the Martin Luther King Institutes Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. She just looked fast., However, Holidays former pianist Memry Midgett says in the documentary that Holidays prostitution past haunted her throughout her life. Contact Us Shortly after she became a professional singer as a teenager, Holiday began working with musician/producer John Hammond, who introduced her to Benny Goodman in 1933.

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