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

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 5/6/2011 8:43, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>>> 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?
>
>
Would he not be conservative in his positive comments to minimize 
criticism from the rest of the profession at that time?

-- 
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