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

[Jeff Sultanof]

Mark,

These interviews we are discussing took place several years after the fact.
The interview that I am referring to took place in the seventies. Obviously,
Wilson could compliment whom he felt like by then. He just didn't think that
Billie Holiday was such a big deal. He preferred other singers to her. It
was just funny how the interviewer tried to get him to say something
complimentary about her and he just wasn't buying into it.

Jeff Sultanof

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Mark Bardenwerper <citrogsa at charter.net>wrote:

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