need info about an obscure billie holiday dvd

[l p]

does anyone know where i can find this

Video info: Title: The Genius of Lady Day - Billie Holiday - Part 3: TV appearances and Clips

Code: ErorFilms 2869029

Year: 2004

Mediumtype: DVD

Total Time: 0h46'16''

or is part 3 on the same dvd as part one and part 2.

thank you

Edited April 22, 2005 by l p

[l p]

nevermind, i ordered it with the hope that part 3 is on the same disc as parts 1 and 2. too bad no one's mentioned this interesting little item. i found out about it as i was looking up the 'ultumate collection' cd/dvd info. that one has the 1956 'stars of jazz' tv appearance - 3 songs. that's all new footage.

[l p]

so, let's recap.

all known billie holiday footage is now available officially.

'The Genius of Lady Day' at cduniverse has

-both 7/58 art ford jazz party appearances, 3 songs each. all complete.

-2/59 bbc 'chelsea at 9' appearance (one of the three tunes is a bit incomplete)

- two songs from 11/58 paris which were discovered only a couple of years ago. she looks great/healthy in the paris footage.

and the dvd includes the regular stuff: new orleans film excerpts; 1950 L.A. with basie; saddest tale.

at amazon.com in cd search, "the ultimate collection" cd/dvd.

the dvd has the previously unseen 'stars of jazz' appearance in los angeles 1956. 3 songs.

and the usual sound of jazz appearance.

and if that weren't enough, there is new lester footage.

on the coleman hawkins 'centennial collection' cd/dvd, the dvd has coleman on art ford jazz party 9/58. on the last 8min tune (jumpin' with symphony sid) there's lester! doing his little shuffle toward the mic when it's his turn to solo (i don't think there is other footage of his walk/shuffle). trading fours with coleman at the end of the tune. great camera angle shots of lester.

the ironic/moronic thing is that lester is not mentioned anywhere on the cover of the cd, and mentioned only in passing in the liner notes by morgenstern. as in 'oh, by the way, coleman and lester were good friends, and you can see them trading fours on the dvd portion of this set'.

run, don't walk.

[jazzbo]

Yes, that Coleman Hawkins dvd is very good. . . nice to have Lester on there.

Thanks for the recap of all the Billie appearances.

[brownie]

- two songs from 11/58 paris which were discovered only a couple of years ago. she looks great/healthy in the paris footage.

I was at that November 1958 concert at the Olympia. Thought Holiday was radiantly beautiful but she was also blind drunk... And it showed. She had to be helped out of the stage.

The crowd loved her anyway but Europe 1 which sponsored the concert did not release the tapes when they issued the 'En Concert avec Europe 1' series of other concerts (Miles, Blakey, Monk, Basie, Ellington, etc...) they sponsored.

With obvious good reasons. Author Francoise Sagan who was also at the concert wrote a beautiful and truthful review of it at the time.

[l p]

she was drunk every day of the last years of her life.

on the sound of jazz video, she's probably drunk, and lester's probably stoned. maybe they should have scrapped that performance in subsequent releases and tv airings.

>"With obvious good reasons"

are you saying that it would be better if the video footage of those two songs was never released? it's only 2 tunes, about 5 minutes total. there is very little video footage of holiday, as opposed to hours and hours of the other people that you mentioned. and she sounds great on the 2nd song. it is foolish to defend Europe 1's decision not to release the holiday footage until now.

[brownie]

>"With obvious good reasons"

are you saying that it would be better if the video footage of those two songs was never released? it's only 2 tunes, about 5 minutes total. there is very little video footage of holiday, as opposed to hours and hours of the other people that you mentioned. and she sounds great on the 2nd song. it is foolish to defend Europe 1's decision not to release the holiday footage until now.

I was not speaking of the video footage which I saw several years ago on French TV. I was referring to the audio.

She may have been drunk pretty often in her last years but I would be the last one to blame her.

She made enough material to enliven anybody's life and I will go on without going back to her performance that night!

Releasing a CD of her performance at the Olympia would be an embarrassment to everyone concerned!

From what I know, it's Daniel Filipacchi's decision not to release the performed songs. He was Europe 1's jazz producer (and editor of the Jazz Magazine review) before becoming a press tycoon. I respect his decision!

Not sure who owns the rights to the video footage...

[brownie]

- two songs from 11/58 paris which were discovered only a couple of years ago. she looks great/healthy in the paris footage.

and the dvd includes the regular stuff: new orleans film excerpts; 1950 L.A. with basie; saddest tale.

The original video of the two songs turned up a while ago on the INA site

Billie Hioliday Paris 1958

Mal Waldron and French bass player Michel Gaudry accompany Billie!