var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb83722'); Billie stands in magnificent glory in a dark long-sleeved dress with a portrait collar that shows off her face. else if ('' == 'right') Whatever the real reasons for Holidays exit from the Count Basie Orchestra, her next career opportunity was one that was groundbreaking but controversial at the time. Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. She began working on the Holiday biography in 1971 and interviewed an impressive number of people. Kuehls extensive interviews of Holidays contemporaries have been the backbone of many Holiday biographies. Those now-deceased jazz voices include Count Basie, Charles Mingus, John Hammond, Jo Jones and Sylvia Syms. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 - February 6, 1978) was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. Get a load of the critics, the people who judge our music. Many important details of her life and her musical genius have been overshadowed by a lurid interest in her love life and drug use. The description of Holiday as fast would no longer be an appropriate description of a prepubescent girl who had been raped at age 10 and sent to reform school because of it. (Photo by George Rinhart). Tony Bennett, who says he briefly knew Holiday, sums up the way a lot of people feel about Holiday: She told her own story, just by being herself. Kuehl, in that period of eight years, began to see parts of herself in Holiday. popupTrigger.click(function(){ Several people in the documentary literally say in one way or another, She loved to get high. And they talk about how she had an unusually high physical tolerance for drugs that was stronger than men who were physically a lot bigger than she was. There are so many photos in circulation of Holiday at the end of her life when she was skeletal it might be shocking for some to realize that for most of her life she was plump. She did not see [Billie Holiday] as the victim, which is the way she had been portrayed.. That Holiday took the bottom of the barrel Tin Pan Alley tunes that no one wanted to record and made them works of art is never covered. Holiday can only be fairly described as oscillating from pleasingly plump to svelte for much of her career. }, 50); She wanted to have sex, mostly with women. var captainformThemeStyle = {}; Her face is an actress as much as her voice. captainformThemeStyle['772605'] = ''; }; Holidays birth name was Eleanora Fagan, and she was born to teenage parents in Philadelphia on April 7, 1915. clearInterval(captainForm772605PreloadInterval63c877fb82c45); var append_element = append_element || function(e){if(void 0==e)return!1;if(! Eleanors favorite curse words were motherfucker and cocksucker., By all accounts, Eleanor started working as a housecleaner/maid before she was a teenager. Culture Mix Survey As much as Holiday was the first master of microphone singing, she is also a master of the camera. The audio recordings in Billie come from the archives of New York City-based journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who died by falling from a hotel in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 1978. }); The documentary includes stories of people witnessing McKay (whos been described as a mafia enforcer) being physically abusive to Holiday. Culture Clash:Holiday battled drug addiction, and several people who knew her say that she was a target of the FBI. Like all documentaries there is never enough music and with a woman such as Billie who lived an expansive life in 44 years it would be impossible for one feature length film to cover everything. } var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb82c45'); UNSUNG HEROES THROUGH THE NIGHT- Special Free Screening Thursday, Jan. 19, NEW YEARS CHEER- A Nostalgic Look at Past New Years Through Images, Movies and Music, They Were Calling It the Twentieth Century, THE ART OF EATING: THE LIFE OF M.F.K. The project is centered around 200 hours of previously. }, 10); Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. Then, in the late 1960s journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie. (The documentary has lots of images of cassette recorders and reel-to-reel tap machines in operation, to give a visual representation of these interviews.) This is not to say that there is no filmed footage. Her death was ruled as a suicide. if (document.getElementById('captainform_js_global_vars') == null) { }); She spoke to Holidays friends, and to those who had been there for the most transformative chapters of her life. } var popupParams = { Tarkoituksena oli kirjoittaa Billie Holidayn elmkerta , hn haastatteli ystvi, muita esiintyji ja Holidayn elmn avainhenkilit, mutta kuoli ennen sen valmistumista. Kuehls only objective was to understand Holiday better, which she does better than any other biographer of Billie Holiday. View eatdrinkfilmsmags profile on Instagram, View eatdrinkfilmssos profile on Pinterest, BILLIE documentary is Actually Linda Kuehl on Billie. [6] In 1971, she began plans for a biography of Holiday, who had died aged 44 in 1959. Billie certainly encompassed both requirements. Holiday's beauty and misery made her into a tragic figure to everyone except Linda Lipnack Kuehl. Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. Her body as usual is still as a statue; only her hands wave occasionally in small restrained circles. function resize77260563c877fb82c45(wrapper){ Start your Independent Premium subscription today. }, true); var captainformCustomVars = {}; In 1971, she began plans for a biography: Holiday had died aged 44 in 1959 and, 11 years on, Kuehl wanted to speak to those who were there throughout her life. So many people have rhapsodized about her voice that we often forget that for those who saw her sing live her face was also a powerful vehicle of emotion. By the early Forties, she had worked with Basie and Artie Shaw. In 1928, Holiday and her mother moved to New York Citys Harlem neighborhood. Being a solo act gave Holiday the freedom to record whats considered the most important and most controversial song of her career: Strange Fruit. Written by Abel Meeropol under the alias Lewis Allan, and released in 1939, the song is a poetically brutal commentary on racial injustice, particularly in describing the lynching of black people in the South. But the time she was 13, she was a prostitute. setTimeout(function () { The Billie documentary gives added depth to Holidays memoir, since it includes the perspectives of people who talk about things that Holiday didnt want to talk about in her book. var readyStateOverflowInterval; } captainform_create_form_popup(popupParams); textContent: 'var frmRef=""; try { frmRef=window.top.location.href; } catch(err) {}; var captainform_servicedomain="app.captainform.com";var cfJsHost = "https://";', Allen shows the cell where Holiday stayed and describes Holiday as quiet and certainly no trouble ever. Joe Guy, a trumpet player in her band, was also one of her main drug connections. Eleanoras parents got married when she was 3 years old, and she was raised primarily in Baltimore. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. } Linda Lipnack Kuehl [1] was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. [11] "Police deemed it suicide, Kuehl having supposedly jumped from her hotel room, although there was no proof of this",[3] and her family believes she may have been murdered. textContent: 'var frmRef=""; try { frmRef=window.top.location.href; } catch(err) {}; var captainform_servicedomain="app.captainform.com";var cfJsHost = "https://";', She had $750 to her name when she died, according to the documentary. Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_harry_book.php She was sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Skinny Davenport, a pimp who knew Holiday in her prostitution days, describes how the hookers in the neighborhood were treated: Knock em down, kick em in the ass. Over 8 years, she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. "[9] However, Kuehl did not complete the book. Function: view, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/index.php Here, Erskine has been given the opportunity to illuminate the lives of two women by seeing where they intertwine. var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772606EmbedPopup63c877fb834ac'); captainform_create_form_popup(popupParams); Elle fut la premire icne de la protestation contre le racisme ce qui lui a valu de puissants ennemis. ("elementType"in e))return!1;var n=null;if(n=e.following?e.following.parentElement:e.inside?e.inside:e.replacing?e.replacing.parentElement:"script"==e.elementType?document.head:document.body,null==n)return!1;var l=document.createElement(e.elementType);delete e.elementType,l=jQuery.extend(l,e),e.replacing?n.replaceChild(l,e.replacing):n.appendChild(l)}; Billie Holiday. She was the singer for Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, who were all white. A psychiatrist, at one point, weighs in with a diagnosis. Holiday can only be fairly described as oscillating from pleasingly plump to svelte for much of her career. That face! Some people in the documentary allude to Holiday being fond of sex orgies. Billie feels typical, even if its attention to detail gives it an obvious appeal. Having a camera in ones face automatically creates artifice or at least a self-consciousness that is less present in an audio-only interview, especially one conducted after ones concert, over a drink. For those who wish to delve more deeply into her interviews, the Julia Blackburn book With Billie is a collection of Kuehls transcriptions. Instead we hear the voices of personal friends and colleagues who often played with Holiday, such as Count Basie and Artie Shaw. Theres also a clip of her role as Endie in the 1947 film New Orleans., Because Billie is told in chronological order of her life, the documentary has a very easy narrative to follow. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (24. tammikuuta 1940 - 6. helmikuuta 1978) oli yhdysvaltalainen taidetoimittaja New Yorkissa. Her predilection for weed, opium and coke gave them the excuse to hound her relentlessly. Line: 192 Over 8 years, she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. [2] Various other writers' biographies on Holiday have drawn upon Kuehl's material, as did the film Billie (2019), which is narrated by Kuehl's recorded interviews. var captainformThemeStyle = {}; var captainformDomReady = captainformDomReady || function(e){var t=!1,n=function(){document.addEventListener? Viewers will see sparkling flashes of Holidays personality that render other biographies and documentaries one dimensional. According to Ida B. var readyStateOverflowInterval; if ('' == 'left') Like the singer she idolized and identified with, Linda Lipnack Kuehl had her own bad habits, failed relationships and dreams unfulfilled. Theres plenty of performance footage, too, some of it needlessly colourised. resize77260563c877fb82c45(wrapper); (Its one of the reasons why biopics about Holiday portray her in very different ways.). In the late '60s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie. Your email address will not be published. The book was left unfinished, Kuehls tapes buried away until now. [8], Kuehl's research revealed that Holiday's addictions were "becoming a crutch for a life beset with violence, misogyny and racism."[2]. She sang in clubs in Harlem and. Kim Nalley is on faculty at the California Jazz Conservatory and is writing her Doctoral dissertation on the Globalization of Jazz and Black Cultural Politics.. resize77260663c877fb834ac(wrapper); if('' == 'floating') { Dr. James Hamilton, a psychiatrist who interviewed Holiday when she was in prison, had this diagnosis of her. At one point, she began to receive strange, threatening calls. Over the next decade, she tracked down and tape-recorded interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. type: "text/javascript", elementType: "script", Its hard to know much trust to put in his words, though Erskine builds a picture of a life carved out by desires. Her romances didnt get any better. Considering all the trauma that Holiday had when she was a child (she was also raped more than once when she was a teenager), its no surprise that she ended up way that she did. jQuery(wrapper).css('top', jQuery(window).height() * 0.4 - wrapper.outerHeight()); Holidays mother Sadie (who took an interested in her daughters career) was nicknamed Duchess. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 February 6, 1978)[1] was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. [3] She interviewed almost 200 peoplefriends, family members, band members, peers from 1930s Harlem, piano players, psychiatrists and a pimpand was still finding people in 1978. Kim Nalley, a PHD Candidate in History at University of California Berkeley, is a historian, playwright, and actress and is most known as jazz & blues singer with a powerful, 3 1/2 octave range that can go from operatic to gritty blues on a dime, projection that can whisper a ballad yet is capable of filling a room with no microphone, and the ability to scat blistering solos without ever losing the crowds interest or the intense swing. captainForm772605PreloadInterval63c877fb82c45 = setInterval(function(){ By the time that Holiday was arrested in 1947, she listed her marital status as separated. She and Monroe got divorced the same year. Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. }); Lipstick and brow pencil are the hallmark features. They loved it. Several people in the documentary describe Holiday as a masochist who never knew what it was like to have a healthy love relationship when she was adult. And the only way to save her was to have her knocked out by the government. George H. White, who was a narcotics agent at the time, says Holidays lavish lifestyle also made her a target for the FBI and other law enforcement: Billie flaunted her way of living.. captainform_create_form_popup(popupParams); if(typeof cfJsHost != 'undefined'){ The documentary Billie, now showing, does not start at Billies birth or death, but rather the date of Linda Kuehls death. Contact Us The film highlights a review that scathingly derides Billie for being heavy reminding us that draconian female standards of beauty have been around for a long time. A 1947 shootout with cops in Philadelphia led to Holidays first arrest for narcotics possession. }, true); Sign up for a chance to win prizes (such as free gift cards) and get priority alerts or invitations to the hottest lifestyle/culture news, discounts and promotions. The problems became too much for her, and she quit working with Artie Shaw and His Orchestra. Shortly after she became a professional singer as a teenager, Holiday began working with musician/producer John Hammond, who introduced her to Benny Goodman in 1933. [7][3][8] Her archive on Holiday included these interviews on 125 audio tapes[8] as well as "a long paper trail, including police files, transcripts of court cases, royalty statements, shopping lists, hospital records, private letters, muddled transcripts and fragments of unfinished chapters. Kuehl is heard in the interview going back and forth with Jones and Hammond to get their reactions to these conflicting allegations. Holiday grew up in Baltimore, poor and lonely her father had abandoned her and her mother was often absent due to work. In the 1970s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl recorded over 200 hours of interviews for a biography she intended to write about Billie Holiday. Linda Lipnack Kuehl IMDbPro Starmeter See rank Help contribute to IMDb. For some eight years in the 1970s, Kuehl interviewed everyone she could find who had a personal association with Holiday musicians, managers, childhood friends, lovers and FBI agents among. textContent: 'var frmRef=""; try { frmRef=window.top.location.href; } catch(err) {}; var captainform_servicedomain="app.captainform.com";var cfJsHost = "https://";', See was a rugged, powerfully built man; handsome, athletic and. "She excited me with just three notes," drummer Roy Harte tells Kuehl. if('' == 'floating') { [2] Various other writers' biographies on Holiday have drawn upon Kuehl's material, as did the film Billie (2019), which is narrated by Kuehl's recorded interviews. That made her a target of the FBI. captainformDomReady(function() { The songs that she sings in performance clips include Strange Fruit, Blues Are Brewin' (with Louis Armstrong), Fine and Mellow, My Man (Mon Homme), I Loves You Porgy, God Bless the Child and Dont Explain, the song that Holiday said represented her the best. append_element({ It seems amazing that most writers have speculated on the reason Billie Holiday left both the Basie Band and the Shaw Band without getting the testimony of Basie and Shaw themselves. Holiday was accustomed to being the only woman in a band, but with Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, she felt the pain of racial segregation, since she couldnt she wasnt allowed in whites only public places with the rest of the band, such as restaurants and hotels. She sang and recorded till the end of her life. 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Presentations and performance on Billie Holiday include: Rethinking Billie Holiday on her Centennial (Google Talk), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism with Angela Davis (SFJAZZ), Your email address will not be published. To find your favorite venue check here. The Official Billie Holiday website maintained by the Estate of Billie Holiday and hosted by Concord Jazz. The testimonies of those who knew Holiday before she became famous help make up for that deficiency. Kuehl had dedicated the last eight years of her life to a biography of jazz singer Billie Holiday, whose rich, sensuous voice had been steeped in a lifetime of pain. Culture Mix Survey She wanted to sing. }, 50); How Kuehl managed to construct Billies life and Kuehls life is just as interesting as Holidays life in my opinion. She was a woman of breath-taking talent and global popularity while also stirring controversy. There are so many photos in circulation of Holiday at the end of her life when she was skeletal it might be shocking for some to realize that for most of her life she was plump. The project is centered around 200 hours of previously. popupTrigger.css('visibility', 'visible'); clearInterval(captainForm772606PreloadInterval63c877fb834ac); Dcouvrez la bande annonce du film Billie : BILLIE HOLIDAY est l'une des plus grandes voix de tous les temps. resize77260663c877fb829bf(wrapper); As an historian who has used Linda Kuehls interviews to write several papers and presentations on Billie Holiday I realize that I am biased and others might not share in my joy in learning more about Kuehl. Missing from this documentary is incisive exploration about exactly what makes Billie Holiday so great musically. var popupTrigger = jQuery("#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb83722"); An epilogue at the end of the documentary mentions that because of the destruction of police records, investigations into Lindas death made during the film proved inconclusive., In the documentary, Luftman explains why her sister wanted to write a Billie Holiday biography: Even thought they came from totally different backgrounds, I think she really identified with Billie. [1], File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php In Holidays case we could also add being female to that equation as well. Recently some articles based on faulty interviews emphasize her persecution in Hoovers war on drugs without realizing this was a fact of life for all African American jazz musicians. She wanted to retire and care for orphans. Because McKay was still legally married to Holiday when she died, he inherited Holidays estate and future earnings. To describe it any other way is to diminish her musicianship. Hammond says of Goodman, He slept with Billie. The film highlights a review that scathingly derides Billie for being heavy reminding us that draconian female standards of beauty have been around for a long time. captainForm772606PreloadInterval63c877fb834ac = setInterval(function(){ They had an instantaneous and passionate romance, married, and in 1963, Linda gave birth to their first child, Heather Louise. BILLIE, directed by James Erskine, is a portrait of legendary singer Billie Holiday based on more than 200 audio interviews conducted by journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl in the 1970s.A compelling look at the jazz legend who should never be forgotten. setTimeout(function () { She was a highly talented and unique star, but she also complicated and deeply troubled. }; Strange Fruit was banned from radio airplay in certain areas, and many venues forbid Holiday from performing the song. [3], Interviews that Kuehl conducted with writers were published in The Paris Review in 1972 and 1978. [1], Last edited on 23 September 2022, at 00:47, "Billie documentary review an oral history of Billie Holiday", "Singer, activist, sex machine, addict: the troubled brilliance of Billie Holiday", "Billie is a fanatical yet fascinating portrait of an immortal talent", "Billie a powerful documentary about the life of the singer", "Documentary Billie squanders its incendiary premise review", "Biography covers range of a vocalist (Published 2005)", "Billie review a double tragedy of destruction and obsession", "One Scats, the Other Doesn't (Published 1994)", "Observer review: With Billie by Julia Blackburn", "Billie review a truer, historical spin on the great Billie Holiday", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linda_Lipnack_Kuehl&oldid=1111802271, This page was last edited on 23 September 2022, at 00:47. There were reports that McKay was very controlling and unscrupulous when it came to Holidays finances. Nalley previously wrote for EatDrinkFilms about Ella Fitzgerald which was accompanied by an extensive gallery of images and videos of both singers. type: "text/javascript", He was 18, she was 16, and I was three" - but was also full of inaccuracies. When they reach the top, something tragic happens.. captainformThemeStyle['772606'] = ''; The next thing I know, she was using coke.. Billie Holiday is the subject of the documentary, and theres expected archival footage of her in her film. var captainformThemeStyle = {}; After moving to Harlem, she started singing in the local nightclubs, where she was eventually discovered by producer John Hammond. Kuehl conducted over 150 interviews in the early 1970s, less than two decades after Holidays death in 1959, so the memories of Holiday are still fresh and free from todays prejudices. She was raped at age 10 and sent to a reform school as a result. Calling Holiday a chick singer is an understatement, but it is relevant that we understand how the world saw Holiday during her time and how she saw herself. "[9] However, Kuehl did not complete the book. Linda delivers due diligence and interviews all the people involved to come up with an answer, or answers, that are closer to the truth than any other biographer. Holidays time with Basie and his band ended on a sour note when she left. The film includes rare photos of Billie Holiday taken by Hugh Bell, licensed to the production by Gartenberg Media, the exclusive representative of . Its implied that her addiction issues were inherited, because Sandy Williams, a bandmate of Holidays father Clarence, describes Clarence as a happy-go-lucky guy who loved his booze and was often drunk. Holidays eyes plead, her lips sneer and her single eyebrow rises suggestively and reproachfully. Line: 107 2019 Directed by James Erskine Synopsis She sang the truth, she paid the price 'Lady Day' was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. He stripped the singer of almost every dollar before leaving her in 1959 to die a heroin addict in a . Most Popular So, in the late 1960s journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of. Kuehl was an experienced arts journalist who wrote for The Paris Review and The New York Times Sunday magazine. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 February 6, 1978)[1] was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. She never bothered anybody. And to the best of anyones knowledge, Holiday didnt sing while she was incarcerated. See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites Depending on whom you believe, she either quit or was fired. Linda Lipnack Kuehl was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. window.addEventListener('resize', function(){ Using the countless hours of recorded interviews Kuehl left behind, Erskine has crafted a film around the jazz singer's life and the journalist's attempt to capture it. And it seems that Holiday didnt want to settle down with anyone who was considered nice or normal., Irene Kitchen, one of Holidays friends, mentions musician Sonny White, who was briefly Holidays fianc, as nice, quiet, a very good musician Her mother and I hoped that she would marry him. } Song list and samples here.She portrayed Holiday on stage in C.J.Verburgs play Lady Day in Love. By all accounts, he was abusive and a heavy drug user. Theres a lingering sense that Kuehl understood something deeper, but Billie never seems all that curious to find out what that might be. setTimeout(function () { var popupTrigger = jQuery("#captainformForm772606EmbedPopup63c877fb834ac"); Line: 315 By singing and recording the anti-lynching protest song Strange Fruit Holiday became a race woman and outspoken proponent of civil rights 15 years before Brown v. Board and almost 20 years before the March on Washington. Olika andra frfattares biografier p Holiday har anvnt Kuehls . if(typeof cfJsHost != 'undefined'){ (document.removeEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",d),window.removeEventListener("load",d)):(document.detachEvent("onreadystatechange",d),window.detachEvent("onload",d))},d=function(){t||!document.addEventListener&&"load"!==event.type&&"complete"!==document.readyState||(t=!0,n(),e())};if("complete"===document.readyState)e();else if(document.addEventListener)document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",d),window.addEventListener("load",d);else{document.attachEvent("onreadystatechange",d),window.attachEvent("onload",d);var o=!1;try{o=null==window.frameElement&&document.documentElement}catch(a){}o&&o.doScroll&&!function c(){if(!t){try{o.doScroll("left")}catch(d){return setTimeout(c,50)}t=!0,n(),e()}}()}}; [3] The interviews were a major source for the text in Robert O'Meally's book of photographs Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1991)[12] and around the same were used for the script for a Masters of American Music series documentary of the same name. 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