Jazz, blues and nostalgia.
‘A century of Billie Holiday’ at 20:00h in Palace of Nostalgia. When she died in 1959 someone scribbled on a wall in Harlem ‘Billie Holiday at 44, couldn’t make it no more.’ A tumultuous life had come to and end, a life that started one hundred years ago on 7 April 1915. In the meanwhile she has been dead longer than she lived but her oeuvre has made it through the ravages of time and will, if the world doesn’t come to an end, sound forever. An hour with music of ‘Lady Day’. From the early, unsteady beginning, via the beautiful recording with Lester Young and Teddy Wilson and the grooved records from the early fifties until the worn end, but with an unequalled TV performance in the jazz special ‘The Sound of Jazz’ in which the emotion could be felt through the screen and the tears flowed generously in the direction room during that live broadcast.
