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

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Fri May 6 18:43:12 PDT 2011


>>> 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.
>
> -- 
> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. #:?)


Hi,  Mark,

I don't quite follow...why would Wilson need to be careful in complimenting 
a black singer?


Taylor





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