[78-L] Your Mother's Son-In-Law - BG and Billie Holiday on Columbia Blue Shellac

[Jeff Sultanof]

As I recall (and I wish I could find that interview; maybe my buddies at the
Institute of Jazz Studies know the one I'm talking about), Teddy became
progressively more and more testy as the questioner tried to get him to say
something complimentary about Holiday. Teddy didn't like interviews anyway,
especially as he got older.

Jeff Sultanof

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

> Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> > I also found it very interesting that when Teddy Wilson was asked in an
> > interview about his series of records on Brunswick, he initially did not
> > discuss Holiday. When pressed in a subtle way to name his favorite
> singers
> > on his records, he didn't mention Holiday at that point either. I wish I
> > could remember who the interviewer was at this point, but I remember this
> > being quite striking.
> >
> > Jeff Sultanof
> ===============
> Was that where he described Holiday as "singing as if her boots were too
> tight"? The best Wilson piano I've heard from that period was with Red
> Evans and Chick Bullock. That must tell you something?
>
>      Julian Vein
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