"For Lady: Early Billie Holiday LP Tributes"

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This week on Night Lights it's "For Lady: Early Tribute LPs to Billie Holiday." Although there had been tribute LPs to other artists before Billie Holiday--Bix Beiderbecke and Fats Waller among them--the concept really took off in the two years before and after Holiday's death in 1959, as six albums dedicated to the iconic singer were released. We'll hear selections from little-known trumpeter Webster Young's 1957 For Lady, as well as Anita O'Day's Trav'lin' Light, Johnny Griffin's White Gardenia, Sam Cooke's Tribute to the Lady, Carmen McRae's Sings Loverman, and Mal Waldron's Left Alone. "For Lady" airs Saturday, July 16 at 11:05 p.m. on WFIU; you can listen live, or wait until Monday afternoon, when the program will be posted to the Night Lights archives.

Next week: "The Early Avant-Garde: Teddy Charles." (tip of the hat to Late & garthsj.)

Edited July 16, 2005 by ghost of miles

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