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classicbluenotes: Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday at Orly Airport in Paris - November, 1958
atane: The hands of Billie Holiday Photo by Herman Leonard (Source)
Billie Holiday fights back tears as she listens to a just-created recording in 1959, what would be her last recording session before she died of cirrhosis of the liver. Friend Milt Hinton, a jazz bassist, captured this intimate image and many other insider’s looks at jazz greats of the 20th century.
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thejazzpoet: Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins and Holiday at a Columbia Records recording session in 1957.
Billie Holiday in New York, 1943 - Photographed by Gjon Mili
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classicbluenotes: Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald
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missavagardner: Billie Holiday performing at Carnegie Hall, photographed by William Gottlieb, 1948.
pourmesometea: [Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat(?), New York, N.Y., ca. June 1946] (LOC)