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

[Jeff Sultanof]

He was hardly a racist, but he turned out to be opinionated. He just didn't
like Billie Holiday's singing apparently. Or maybe he just didn't like her
as a person. As I said, he didn't like being interviewed, and you didn't put
words in his mouth.

Both Ellington and Bob Farnon are two examples of people who would never say
a bad word about anybody in public, but privately..... that was another
story. There is an incredible interview with Ellington ca. 1964 with an
interviewer from Columbia University, and Duke was shockingly open about
many things. The Institute of Jazz Studies has it, and I've heard parts of
it.

Jeff Sultanof

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Mark Bardenwerper <citrogsa at charter.net>wrote:

> On 5/6/2011 9:09, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> > 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.
> I agree. But my point is, was his attitude racist, or based upon other
> reasons?
>
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