The Sound of Jazz CBS 1957

ploaded on Nov 9, 2011
CBS television doc. from 1957 with Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk among others.
(some hiccups included)
Category - Music
License - Standard YouTube License

Her final song with Lester Young. They had been estranged awhile, their mutual addictions too hard to bear. During her blues, he plays one of the purest blues solos ever performed, and her glance at him is worth watching the whole hour.


Notice how Billie Holiday goes over to Basie (at 17:20 you see her starting to make her way over) and at 17:32 whispers something in his ear--