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

Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an early Cry for Civil Rights

"...Strange Fruit Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil..."

July 21, 2000 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

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

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...distributors compartmentalize the year by season -- summer, fall, holiday -- each season indicative of a certain kind of..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

Desert Island Discs

"...6. Billy Holiday, The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol. IV (Columbia)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature

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

Music to Wallow By

Wayne Alan Brenner's list for maudlin millennium-toasting listening displeasure is sure to send you flinging yourself off of Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song."

"...again: Music to Depress the Hell Out of You: Billie Holliday shivering from the sight of all that strange..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Features Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...George Van Eps. Like one of her main influences, Billie Holiday, Lee didn't sing with a lot of volume..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

Public Notice

"...an Austin public school. 1111 W. Sixth, 78703. 414-4512, Billie F. Franke...."

Jan. 1, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Cultural Coolness Around Texas This Month

"...Yorker, adds a touch of celebrity with shots of Billie Holiday and the writer Zora Neale Hurston. On top..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Arts 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

Wrapped and Ready

"...If this holiday season were a song it might be sung to..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

The Guilt of Frank Sinatra

Letters at 3 a.m.

"...fulfilled - in that music only Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday were his equals. (Sinatra always credited Holiday as..."

May 29, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

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

Oh, Lady, You're Good!

Dee Dee Bridgewater

"...third and final member of jazz's eternal triumvirate: Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan. Celebrated for accomplishments that helped..."

April 17, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Writes of Spring

Off the Bookshelf

"...songs of 1920s women blues artists and jazz singer Billie Holiday not only reflected the relatively independent status of..."

April 3, 1998 Books Review

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