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For its craft? Its use of language? Its aesthetics? Or its polemic?

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While I don't think her Decca recordings generally rate among her best studio dates (with some notable exceptions, especially the versions with trio of I Loves You Porgy & My Man from 1948), I think Billie Holiday was in her best form in this period, having passed through youthful insouciance into gravitas before time and the "elements" took their toll. The Summer of '49 airchecks are among my favorites http://product.half.ebay.com/Summer-of-49-by-Billie-Holiday-CD-Dec-1995-Band-Stand-import/3362380&tg=info as well as the JATP recordings http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Philharmonic-Billie-Holiday-Story/dp/B0000046SY

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I've seen They Can't Take That Away From Me and Swing Brother Swing (from the Savoy, 1937) on a number of releases. These and I Can't Get Started from another gig later that year are on the Lady Day complete Columbia box. http://www.billieholidaysongs.com/live_songs.htm#1937

From the "brilliant" poem: "Somebody Blew Up America by AMIRI BARAKA Somebody Blew Up America . . . Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion And cracking they sides at the notion ... Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers To stay home that day Why did Sharon stay away? . . . Copyright 2002. AMIRI BARAKA." http://www.counterpunch.org/2002/10/03/somebody-blew-up-america/

I don't remember what critic said this, maybe 15 or so years ago, maybe Giddins, but someone commented that that Horn, Scott and Andy Bey could have had a contest for the slowest singer in jazz at the time. The ability to swing at a snail's pace is true magic. Bey is one of my favorite singers. I also loved Leon Thomas and Joe Lee Wilson.

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I always thought a recording of Porgy and Bess with Carrie Smith and Jimmy Scott would have been great. Smith as Porgy, Scott as Bess.

I suppose if you're a fan of wildfires.

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Some of the later stuff Haymes recorded for George Buck's Audiophile label was pretty good too.

I'm sure in some cases even the people at the labels have no idea. But if it's a Basie-specific question, especially old testament, I'd guess probably not much (or anything) unreleased from Columbia or Decca as far as studio sessions. More likely other location recordings and airchecks?

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Those 2 'fifties Capitol albums are fantastic. I once heard a radio interview with Norma Teagarden (with either Loonis McGlohon or Alec Wilder) and until I heard who it was I could have sworn it was a guy talking.

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I see you're alluding to that old Abe Lincoln assassination joke. Simon Templar Eva-Marie Saint Buffy Sainte-Marie

Interesting that of the traditional "big three" (Billie, Ella, Sarah), only Billie is on many lists, and Anita O'Day seems to get lots of love. The O'Day Jazz Icons DVD and the one from Japan in the '60s are both fantastic, and, of course, her performance in Jazz on a Summer's Day. The documentary about her is also brilliant. http://www.amazon.com/Anita-ODay-Life-Jazz-Singer/dp/B001W3P50O