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WFIU Presents
Billie Holiday: the Decca Years
You can read more about Billie Holiday here, and you can find Billie-Holiday-related programs in the archives of our Saturday-evening jazz show Night Lights here and here. “Billie Holiday: the Decca Years” airs Friday, February 9 at 10:05 p.m. EST on WFIU.
WFIU |
This
week on Afterglow we’ll feature the music of Billie
Holiday’s Decca years (1944-1950). The Decca recordings showcased
Holiday in larger-ensemble, somewhat more commercial settings (as
opposed to her previous small-group work with jazz greats such as
Teddy Wilson and Lester Young); she came to the label via Milt Gabler,
who had already recorded her for Commodore Records, and who heard
an unrealized pop potential in her work. This period found Holiday’s
voice in its prime, more mature than in her earlier years and not
yet affected by the physical damage she’d suffer as time went
on. The hit “Loverman” and songs such as “You Better
Go Now,” “What Is This Thing Called Love,” “You’re
My Thrill,” and a haunting alternate take of “No More”
are included in the first and second hours of the program. We’ll
also hear from Nina Simone, Gloria Lynne, Chico Hamilton, and Kenny
Garrett, as well as recent releases by singer Meredith D’Ambrosio
and guitarist Russell Malone, and a song from the only movie ever
based on a story by J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye.
