BILLIE HOLIDAY
52 years ago today, the world lost the great Billie Holiday – remember her with this quietly powerful portrait by Herman Leonard that captures her class, grace and elegance.
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Remembering the great Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), who passed away 52 years ago today, with this lovely student cut-out animation for her exquisite rendition of Summertime.
amosmulder on Jun 4, 2007
Cut-out animation Floortje (www.youtube.com/vlortje) en I did for school (HKU). Assignement: Videoclip for one of the over 12000 known versions of the song Summertime, the aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.
we made this animation simply moving pieces of paper around frame by frame. We only used the computer for capturing the frames and for a little colorgrading enjoy!>via: http://curiositycounts.com/post/7739666344/remembering-the-great-billie-holid...
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Fine and mellow (1957)
Billie Holiday singing with Ben Webster -- tenor saxophone, Lester Young -- tenor saxophone, Vic Dickenson -- trombone, Gerry Mulligan -- baritone saxophone, Coleman Hawkins -- tenor saxophone, Roy Eldridge -- trumpet, Doc Cheatham -- trumpet, Danny Barker -- guitar, Milt Hinton -- double bass, Mal Waldron -- piano and Osie Johnson - drums
>via: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKqxG09wlIA