{"id":23660,"date":"2013-07-21T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=23660"},"modified":"2013-11-01T19:15:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T23:15:36","slug":"sunday-jazz-corner-with-billie-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=23660","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Jazz Corner With Billie Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/2013\/07\/21\/sunday-jazz-corner-with-billie-holiday\/billie-holiday-o73q_o_tn\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-23661\" alt=\"billie-holiday-O73Q_o_tn\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/billie-holiday-O73Q_o_tn.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/billie-holiday-O73Q_o_tn.jpg 500w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/billie-holiday-O73Q_o_tn-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pure Jazz perfection. \u00a0Billie Holiday singing the blues live in this video version of <em>Fine and Mellow<\/em> with Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Vic Dickenson and Roy Eldridge. \u00a0You can see Billie&#8217;s talent and vocal gift of timing and delivery as she carries on with each of these talented musicians taking turns expressing the blues.<\/p>\n<p>What a gift for us all to have this video footage of Lady Day from back in the day. \u00a0As she says in her own words in the intro &#8220;There&#8217;s two kinds of blues there&#8217;s happy blues and there&#8217;s sad blues. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think I ever sing the same way twice, I don&#8217;t think I ever sing the same tempo. \u00a0One nights a little bit slower the next nights a little bit brighter depending on how I feel. \u00a0The blues is sort of a mixed up thing you just have to feel it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"watch-headline-title\">VIDEO: Fine And Mellow Billie Holiday With Coleman Hawkins Lester Young Ben Webster Gerry Mulligan Vic Dickenson Roy Eldridge<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TaPIyo51cr4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pure Jazz perfection. \u00a0Billie Holiday singing the blues live in this video version of Fine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124715550,124718155,3374,124715448,124715594],"tags":[77809719,935129,1430,124718158,17326722,93470272,21992,124715786,124718211,412],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23660"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25423,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23660\/revisions\/25423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}