Midgett says that Holiday would talk for hours about how she started in prostitution when she was 13 years old. 9.45pm, BBC Two Director James Erskine brings this detailed, fascinating documentary charting the tumultuous life of jazz singer Billie Holiday, based on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted. function resize77260563c877fb83722(wrapper){ Other people interviewed in the documentary include trombonist Melba Liston and singer Carmen McCrae. append_element({ Before completing her work, Kuehl died suddenly in February 1978. Her scholarly papers on Billie Holiday include: Two Gardenias for Civil Rights: Robin Carsons photo of Billie Holiday (read it here), This Bitter Earth: Infertility for Billie, Ella and Sarah. Then in the late 1960's journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie. Nalleysmany philanthropic endeavors include founding theKim Nalley Black Youth Jazz Scholarshipat the California Jazz Conservatory. Linda Lipnack Kuehl was writing a biography of Holiday when she died suddenly in 1978, though her family believe she may have been murdered Clarisse Loughrey Friday 13 November 2020 11:03 A 1947 shootout with cops in Philadelphia led to Holidays first arrest for narcotics possession. He was like a visitor, but she was too.. } Over 8 years, she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. Its implied that her addiction issues were inherited, because Sandy Williams, a bandmate of Holidays father Clarence, describes Clarence as a happy-go-lucky guy who loved his booze and was often drunk. She spoke to Holidays friends, and to those who had been there for the most transformative chapters of her life. I was one of the people who didnt. Holiday was the first black singer to work with Goodman in those racially segregated times. She was raped at age 10 and sent to a reform school as a result. Holiday's beauty and misery made her into a tragic figure to everyone except Linda Lipnack Kuehl. She had not performed with nor seen him in years and her delight is plain. Sarah Julia Sadie Fagan (a maid) was 13 when she gave birth to Eleanora, and Clarence Halliday (a musician) was 15. Her predilection for weed, opium and coke gave them the excuse to hound her relentlessly. The first of the two films - "Billie" is a documentary built around some previously unheard audio interviews conducted by Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who was working on a comprehensive biography on Billie Holiday before her untimely death in 1978.Ms. Eleven years after Billie Holiday died at the age of 44, from heart failure due to drug and alcohol abuse, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, a Lady Day devotee, interviewed as many people as. He stripped the singer of almost every dollar before leaving her in 1959 to die a heroin addict in a . elementType: "script", (document.removeEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",d),window.removeEventListener("load",d)):(document.detachEvent("onreadystatechange",d),window.detachEvent("onload",d))},d=function(){t||!document.addEventListener&&"load"!==event.type&&"complete"!==document.readyState||(t=!0,n(),e())};if("complete"===document.readyState)e();else if(document.addEventListener)document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",d),window.addEventListener("load",d);else{document.attachEvent("onreadystatechange",d),window.attachEvent("onload",d);var o=!1;try{o=null==window.frameElement&&document.documentElement}catch(a){}o&&o.doScroll&&!function c(){if(!t){try{o.doScroll("left")}catch(d){return setTimeout(c,50)}t=!0,n(),e()}}()}}; } In an archival radio interview, Holiday says, I always knew I could sing, but I didnt know I could make money out of it, until I was working in a little joint called The Hot Cha. Pigmeat Markham, an entertainer who knew Holiday in her early days as a performer, remembers that Holiday had stagefright.. The most important takeaway from Jo Jones is that anyone who believes music has no color negates the experiences of African American musicians who lived with racism dictating almost every aspect of their lives. [11][14][15] Documentary director James Erskine bought the rights to Kuehl's tapes[3] and his subsequent film, Billie (2019), is "a journey through Holiday's life, narrated by the voices on those tapes",[3][14][16][17] including Kuehl's. }); Review: Billie (2020), an oral history of Billie Holidays life. }, 10); The problems became too much for her, and she quit working with Artie Shaw and His Orchestra. But the interviews are by numerous people who knew her best who wouldnt be able to be interviewed today, because almost everyone is now deceased. if ('' == 'left') (Photo by George Rinhart). It was a different kind of poor We were happy with what we had. Mary Pony Kane, a childhood friend of Holidays, remembers that Eleanor was foul-mouthed, even as a child. if('' == 'floating') { Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_harry_book.php A more pertinent flaw would be the ending montage which shows images of current racism against African Americans over Drummer Papa Jo Jones voice. Kim Nalley is on faculty at the California Jazz Conservatory and is writing her Doctoral dissertation on the Globalization of Jazz and Black Cultural Politics.. That face! We dont call this entertainment. Jazz musician Charles Mingus says Strange Fruit was very impactful because it shows that Holiday was fighting for equality before Martin Luther King. Milt Hilton, a bass player who worked with Holiday during her last music recording sessions, remembers: She was in pretty bad shape. He took many of the widely published photos of her during these last sessions. id: "captainform_js_global_vars", Being a solo act gave Holiday the freedom to record whats considered the most important and most controversial song of her career: Strange Fruit. Written by Abel Meeropol under the alias Lewis Allan, and released in 1939, the song is a poetically brutal commentary on racial injustice, particularly in describing the lynching of black people in the South. Holiday, who died of heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver at age 44 in 1959, was an iconic jazz singer who was also one of the first African American entertainers to record music speaking out against racial injustice. Although Luftman couldnt be sure if Basie and her sister had a sexual affair, she thinks those threats might have had something to do with Kuehls death. Daviss and Parkers women are not given a megaphone to comment on them, and I never have seen their musical genius attributed to drug use. var popupTrigger = jQuery("#captainformForm772606EmbedPopup63c877fb829bf"); Is it possible to tell someone elses story without, invariably, telling our own? id: "captainform_js_global_vars", The story of Billie Holiday's rise to fame after a difficult upbringing is nothing new. }); Her cousin John says, During them times, she had to survive. Jones insists: She didnt leave the band. She had also recorded her most important song, Strange Fruit a battle cry against Americas vicious history of lynching, sat right at the dawn of the civil rights movement. elementType: "script", The audio recordings in Billie come from the archives of New York City-based journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who died by falling from a hotel in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 1978. I would expect that at least they could have found a child with the same coloring as Holiday. Considering the documentary is made almost exclusively of one persons previously unheard interviews, I cannot agree. [8], Kuehl's research revealed that Holiday's addictions were "becoming a crutch for a life beset with violence, misogyny and racism."[2]. captainformThemeStyle['772606'] = ''; Her archive passed to a private collector and was later used in other writers' biographies of Holiday. if('' == 'floating') { The years with Teddy Wilson that brought her to fame are barely discussed. This is not to say that there is no filmed footage. She was a woman of breath-taking talent and global popularity while also stirring controversy. Instead we hear the voices of personal friends and colleagues who often played with Holiday, such as Count Basie and Artie Shaw. captainForm772605PreloadInterval63c877fb83722 = setInterval(function(){ if ('' == 'left') if ('' == 'left') var append_element = append_element || function(e){if(void 0==e)return!1;if(! type: "text/javascript", In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Read jazz pianist Richard Fregulias review of Billie. resize77260663c877fb834ac(wrapper); (document.removeEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",d),window.removeEventListener("load",d)):(document.detachEvent("onreadystatechange",d),window.detachEvent("onload",d))},d=function(){t||!document.addEventListener&&"load"!==event.type&&"complete"!==document.readyState||(t=!0,n(),e())};if("complete"===document.readyState)e();else if(document.addEventListener)document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",d),window.addEventListener("load",d);else{document.attachEvent("onreadystatechange",d),window.attachEvent("onload",d);var o=!1;try{o=null==window.frameElement&&document.documentElement}catch(a){}o&&o.doScroll&&!function c(){if(!t){try{o.doScroll("left")}catch(d){return setTimeout(c,50)}t=!0,n(),e()}}()}}; Read the latest opinions on key events by our acclaimed critics today }; It turned me on., Although Holiday had several male and female lovers, only one woman is mentioned in the documentary as being one of her paramours: actress Tallulah Bankhead. var append_element = append_element || function(e){if(void 0==e)return!1;if(! Kuehl was an experienced arts journalist who wrote for The Paris Review and The New York Times Sunday magazine. Monroe would become Holidays first husband, whom she married in 1941. Funeral services Friday February 10th, 11 A.M. Parkside Chapel, 170th St . James Erskine's documentary, built around lengthy interviews conducted in the 1970s by journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, demonstrates how dangerous it can be to mesh with one's subject matter. The film highlights a review that scathingly derides Billie for being heavy reminding us that draconian female standards of beauty have been around for a long time. popupTrigger.click(function(){ That voice. Her stillness is fantastic for the camera. Her drug problems led to her multiple arrests at the height of her fame. }, 10); Elle fut la premire icne de la protestation contre le racisme ce qui lui a valu de puissants ennemis. She tells us of her hopes and dreams in her own voice. Crisp colorized film footage of Holiday with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1950 shows us why she was called the greatest jazz singer ever during her life and now over 100 years after her birth. captainForm772605PreloadInterval63c877fb82c45 = setInterval(function(){ if(typeof cfJsHost != 'undefined'){ Unearthing a trove of audio recordings from the journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who planned to write a biography of Billie Holiday before committing suicide, James Erskine's approachable documentary Billie dives into the life of Holiday through Kuehl's myriad interviews with the people in the artist's orbit. Jimmy Fletcher, an African American who was a narcotics agent for the FBI at the time, says that Holidays agent Joe Glaser worked with the FBI to arrest her in a drug bust for her own good., According to Fletcher, He [Glaser] confided in me that he wanted to save her. else if ('' == 'right') According to Ida B. captainformThemeStyle['772605'] = ''; var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772606EmbedPopup63c877fb834ac'); } }, true); var captainformCustomVars = {}; Basies saxophonist Lester Young is credited with giving Holiday the nickname Lady Day. The insightful documentary Billie (directed by James Erskine) is a highly unusual non-fiction film because most of it is based on previously unreleased audio interviews that were conducted in the 1970s. Raw and brutally honest, incredible testimonies from Charles Mingus, Sarah . Because of the power structure, [black people] never had a chance.. Pigmeat Marham and white record producer John Hammond (instrumental in the lives of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman and more) both claim to have discovered her. When she was released from jail at age 14, she left prostitution for good and set her sights on singing for a living. The film highlights a review that scathingly derides Billie for being heavy reminding us that draconian female standards of beauty have been around for a long time. Watching the footage of her face singing with no sound could reduce the watcher to tears alone without hearing a single note. Having a camera in ones face automatically creates artifice or at least a self-consciousness that is less present in an audio-only interview, especially one conducted after ones concert, over a drink. She recorded from her teens until her untimely death in 1959 at age 44. She wanted to retire and care for orphans. For those who wish to delve more deeply into her interviews, the Julia Blackburn book With Billie is a collection of Kuehls transcriptions. Meanwhile, Basie doesnt offer much insight about Holiday in his interview commentary, because he claims he didnt really know what was going on when she was in his band. Her make-up is minimal. [3]. Kuehl's parents were Sol and Ida Lipnack and she had a sister, Myra Luftman. Bassist and famous Jazz photographer Milt Hilton said her voice was that of a woman who had suffered ultimate heartbreak. In the late 60s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Holiday's life, interviewing everyone from jazz greats such as Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett and. jQuery(wrapper).css('top', jQuery(window).height() * 0.4 + wrapper.width() + wrapper.css('padding').replace('px', '') * 2); There are so many photos in circulation of Holiday at the end of her life when she was skeletal it might be shocking for some to realize that for most of her life she was plump. Holiday was promptly arrested and did time in Welfare Island (now known as Roosevelt); she lied about her age to make sure she did not end up in juvenile until she was the age of majority. var readyStateOverflowInterval; Missing from this documentary is incisive exploration about exactly what makes Billie Holiday so great musically. Not everyone wanted to share their memories with her. She began working on the Holiday biography in 1971 and interviewed an impressive number of people. However, Linda's book was never finished and the tapes never heard . Using the countless hours of recorded interviews Kuehl left behind, Erskine has crafted a film around the jazz singer's life and the journalist's attempt to capture it. 05 January 2023. To find your favorite venue check here. There might also be a tad too much focus on the woman who made those 125 cassettes, Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who was clearly a gifted writer and smart interviewer. gallery of images and videos of both singers. For some eight years in the 1970s, Kuehl interviewed everyone she could find who had a personal association with Holiday musicians, managers, childhood friends, lovers and FBI agents among them. As much as Holiday was the first master of microphone singing, she is also a master of the camera. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 February 6, 1978)[1] was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. [3] She interviewed almost 200 peoplefriends, family members, band members, peers from 1930s Harlem, piano players, psychiatrists and a pimpand was still finding people in 1978. The Official Billie Holiday website maintained by the Estate of Billie Holiday and hosted by Concord Jazz. Holiday can only be fairly described as oscillating from pleasingly plump to svelte for much of her career. Theres plenty of performance footage, too, some of it needlessly colourised. Oddly enough, the just-released documentary Billie is an intertwining tragic tale of two women. As an historian who has used Linda Kuehls interviews to write several papers and presentations on Billie Holiday I realize that I am biased and others might not share in my joy in learning more about Kuehl. Earl Zaiding, who was Holidays lawyer, calls McKay a pathological liar.. These incredible testimonies reveal Holiday's . Calling Holiday a chick singer is an understatement, but it is relevant that we understand how the world saw Holiday during her time and how she saw herself. Line: 479 popupTrigger.css('visibility', 'visible'); }); else if ('' == 'right') var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb82c45'); The biopic will follow Holiday's life through the eyes of Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who as a fan and literary journalist in 1970 began a biography of Holiday. On tour, especially in the U.S. South, they encountered a lot of vicious racism. Because McKay was still legally married to Holiday when she died, he inherited Holidays estate and future earnings. Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/page/index.php Lipstick and brow pencil are the hallmark features. Holidays birth name was Eleanora Fagan, and she was born to teenage parents in Philadelphia on April 7, 1915. 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The conditions for African Americans were much more dismal than many people realize and Holidays struggles stand on their own. }, 10); setTimeout(function () { Holidays career spanned 30 years. Like the singer she idolized and identified with, Linda Lipnack Kuehl had her own bad habits, failed relationships and dreams unfulfilled. The book was left unfinished, Kuehls tapes buried away until now. Her body as usual is still as a statue; only her hands wave occasionally in small restrained circles. clearInterval(captainForm772605PreloadInterval63c877fb83722); Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. An epilogue at the end of the documentary mentions that because of the destruction of police records, investigations into Lindas death made during the film proved inconclusive., In the documentary, Luftman explains why her sister wanted to write a Billie Holiday biography: Even thought they came from totally different backgrounds, I think she really identified with Billie. He was 18, she was 16, and I was three" - but was also full of inaccuracies. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Racism is still an enduring feature of Black life in America, but it does pull the viewer out of Holidays time too much. Beloved daughter of Sol and Ida Llpnack and loving sister of Myra Luttman died February 6th, 1978. captainformThemeStyle['772605'] = ''; captainform_preload_form_popup(popupParams); } Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 - February 6, 1978) was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. Oral history is only as good as the interviewer and Kuehl, a very attractive white woman, put her interviewees at ease by interviewing them most often in bars where they worked and turning off the microphone when asked. clearInterval(captainForm772606PreloadInterval63c877fb829bf); Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. if(typeof cfJsHost != 'undefined'){ Did Kuehl jump, or was she pushed? var readyStateOverflowInterval; var popupTrigger = jQuery("#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb83722"); Linda Lipnack Kuehl was an American high-school teacher and arts journalist, based in Washington. The director of this documentary bought her research, and uses it well. She was terribly worried about whether or not God would forgive her.. Billie Holiday. Culture Clash:Holiday battled drug addiction, and several people who knew her say that she was a target of the FBI. [2] Various other writers' biographies on Holiday have drawn upon Kuehl's material, as did the film Billie (2019), which is narrated by Kuehl's recorded interviews. resize77260663c877fb829bf(wrapper); Kuehl was a journalist and high school teacher that interviewed close to 200 people that knew Ms. Holliday. }); [1], File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php Over the next decade, she tracked down and tape-recorded hundreds of hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. A frail-looking Holiday is shown holding a glass of alcohol. They had an instantaneous and passionate romance, married, and in 1963, Linda gave birth to their first child, Heather Louise. Kuehl was and still is, posthumously, THE preeminent biographer of Billie Holiday, despite never having completed Holiday's biography before she died in 1978. It also brings up a few necessary, if rarely confronted questions. Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan on April 17, 1915, in Philadelphia, but she was raised in the Pigtown slum of Baltimore, Maryland. Yoshi Kato wrote inMetrowith a flowing tone, an articulate delivery and a formidable understanding of musical principles and history, Nalley is comfortable in many a vocal setting. She is the former owner of the San Francisco jazz club Jazz at Pearls and was awarded Most Influential African American in the Bay Area.. if ('' == 'left') Recently some articles based on faulty interviews emphasize her persecution in Hoovers war on drugs without realizing this was a fact of life for all African American jazz musicians. textContent: 'var frmRef=""; try { frmRef=window.top.location.href; } catch(err) {}; var captainform_servicedomain="app.captainform.com";var cfJsHost = "https://";', According to Luftman, her sister Kuehl was threatened by people close to Count Basie, who became close to Kuehl when she interviewed him for the book. Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. Maria Bryant, a singer and friend of Holidays, calls Levy a dirty, rotten, stinking bastard., In 1945, Holiday moved on to Louis McKay, who would become her manager and then her second husband. The documentary doesnt uncover any new visual footage of Billie Holiday. She also got a lot of abuse and harassment from racists they encountered. var captainformThemeStyle = {}; She was fired by John Hammond. Jones says that Hammond fired Holiday because she refused Hammonds demands to sing blues music. popupTrigger.css('visibility', 'visible'); Linda Lipnack Kuehl was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. Keuhl is also remarkable for not trying to angle the information in a Procrustean manner to fit her argument. The film consists almost entirely of Kuehls recordings she had 125 cassettes worth of interviews and snippets of her writing, the latter played out over dramatic reconstructions of hands hovering above a typewriter. captainform_preload_form_popup(popupParams); var readyStateOverflowInterval; The chief suspect in Lipnack Kuehl's killing was Billie's manager and husband, Louis McKay. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Linda Lipnack Kuehl was writing a biography of Holiday when she died suddenly in 1978, though her family believe she may have been murdered, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. var append_element = append_element || function(e){if(void 0==e)return!1;if(! (Its one of the reasons why biopics about Holiday portray her in very different ways.). 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