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

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 5/6/2011 7:42, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> 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?
>>
Had to be very careful complimenting a black singer.

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