Billie Holiday @ 100 with Liane Carroll & Claire Martin
Vocalists Claire Martin and Liane Carroll celebrate diva Billie Holiday’s 100th birthday.
Vocalists Claire Martin and Liane Carroll celebrate diva Billie Holiday’s 100th birthday by selecting music from their personal collections.
Together they navigate us through the story of Billie’s life peppered with some of her classic recordings including ‘God Bless The Child’, ‘Fine and Mellow’ and the iconic ‘Strange Fruit’ described by the late jazz writer Leonard Feather as "the first significant protest in words and music, the first unmuted cry against racism”.
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Billie Holiday on BBC Music
Songs, playlists and videos.
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Jazz Line-Up
Programme exploring jazz music.
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:02Billie Holiday & Teddy Wilson
What A Little Moonlight Can Do
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00:09Billie Holiday
I’ve Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
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00:15Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit
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00:20Billie Holiday
The Man I Love
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00:25Billie Holiday
I Cover The Waterfront
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00:30Billie Holiday
Don't Explain
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00:37Billie Holiday
Lover Man
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00:43Billie Holiday
Fine And Mellow
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00:47Billie Holiday
God Bless The Child
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00:52Billie Holiday
You’ve Changed
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00:57Claire Martin
Them There Eyes (Live)
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