Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America

Box Sets

"...T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King); jazz (Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Bird, Monk, Ella, Miles, Trane, Mingus); R&B/doo-wop (Orioles,..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Ann Hampton Callaway

Ann Hampton Callaway proved a wise choice to inaugurate the new Austin Cabaret Theatre. Her clear enthusiasm for the Great American Songbook and impassioned, intoxicating performances of selections from it made cabaret intimate, immediate, a real event.

"...as inadequate for a vocalist working the territory of Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington, that showed the cabaret artist..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Stevie Ray Vaughan

"...to Mick Jagger and John Hammond (who had "discovered" Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen) had raved about..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Michael Hall

Letters at 3AM

Robert Bly's new book of poems is a haunting work that evokes all hisotry and culture.

"...could have wished for Elvis to be included, and Billie Holiday, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane,..."

July 6, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, April 27-May 6

"...Syndrome, possesses the other-worldy soprano to prove it. Had Billie Holiday been a man, she might have sounded like..."

May 18, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Born on Highway 61

Famed superharpist James Cotton settles into Austin.

"...while Verve had been home to John Coltrane and Billie Holiday. These were hardly typical artist rosters, but all..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

What Kind of Theatre Do You Go For?

Our sassy quiz will match you up with the Austin theatre company of your dreams.

"...6. What's your favorite kind of music? a. Billie Holiday, ABBA, Gypsy cast CD b. Velvet Underground, Jonathan..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Arts Feature

Willie Nelson Milk Cow Blues (Island)

Texas Platters

"...and butter, and if he wants to sing a Billie Holiday song (with Jonny Lang!), it ain't nobody's business..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now (Reprise)

"..."I hay chew." Still, she doesn't pretend to be Billie Holiday or even Diane Schuur, and it's to her..."

July 28, 2000 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Willie Nelson's Lighthouse

Lakeside Dining 2000: Many Restaurants, Not Much Water

"...musicians from Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson (!) to Billie Holiday and Django Reinhardt. But what makes this place..."

July 7, 2000 Food Feature by Wes Marshall

Smokey Robinson, Paramount Theatre, Oakland, California, June 30

"...him scatting like Ella Fitzgerald while suspending time like Billie Holiday, Robinson took charge like a kindly pulpit-pounding preacher...."

July 7, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Food-o-File

Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood reveals who came to dinner on February 5, what they ate, and where their money went, and updates readers on changes in Austin's culinary world.

"...to the music of Louis Prima, Frank Sinatra, and Billie Holiday. Our congenial hosts presented the dramatic main course,..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Letters at 3AM

The paradox of possiblities exhibited by the 20th century -- from Auschwitz to Ginger & Fred.

"...like a dream Hawkins is dreaming. I think of Billie Holiday singing Hush now, don't explain -- you're my..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...that's what. And his Orchestra. Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Billie Holiday & Teddy Wilson, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sony Music 100 Years Soundtrack for a Century (Sony)

Box Sets

"...of a roster of artists that includes: Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Robert Johnson, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash,..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Century of Women in Music (Rhino)

Box Sets

"...1909, crooning through the wails of midcentury standard bearers Billie Holiday, Patti Page, Ruth Brown, Wanda Jackson, and crash..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Review by Kate X Messer

Cocteau Twins BBC Sessions (Ryko/BBC)

Reissues

"...case against the Twins. Even their dirge-like cover of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" is tinged with skittish remnants of..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...John Hammond, the celebrated talent scout/producer credited with discovering Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Bob Dylan, and Stevie Ray Vaughan,..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Lipstick Traces

Pretenders

"...sanitized versions of the era's great black jazz divas: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan. In the Nineties, one..."

July 16, 1999 Music Review

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...and Chris Connor. Like Lee, O'Day's major influence was Billie Holiday, though she was more extroverted than either. A..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Live Shots

The Barkers

"...ladies that look good in blue. A reworking of Billie Holiday's "Fine and Mellow" and her own "Feelin' Alright,"..."

June 4, 1999 Music Feature

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...set booklets are lavish), Daniel Cooper compares Williams to Billie Holiday and Robert Johnson for having absorbed "Americans' needs..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Belated Replies

"...darkness I have." And speaking of the pain in Billie Holiday's music, Etta James said: "It's a love that..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Live Shots

"...in a smooth slide. Her singing is reminiscent of Billie Holiday; packed into the high and wispy strains of..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Music Feature

Congruent Angles

"..."How are you gonna have John Coltrane and Billie Holiday in the basement when they're playing ambient pop..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

The Growing Chorus

Sex, Drugs & Hepatitis C

"...the romantic crap about drugs that goes back to Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Hank Williams, and later, Ray Charles...."

Aug. 21, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Live Shots

"...anything resembling heat. And the pictures of Coltrane, Ellington, Billie Holiday, handsome. So why is there an acoustic guitar..."

May 15, 1998 Music Feature

The Oscar-glow

Tv Eye

"...HC: Her Billie Holiday get-up rates a mention -- flowing, fragrant, and..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...the old and the new, evoking a feeling of Billie Holiday or Nancy Wilson set to more contemporary arrangements...."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Disappointments, Indoctrinations, Desperations

Letters At 3am

"...55, much less a great man. I think of Billie Holiday, dead at 44, singing at the end with..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

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