Billie Holiday @ 100 with Liane Carroll & Claire Martin
Vocalists Claire Martin and Liane Carroll celebrate diva Billie Holiday鈥檚 100th birthday.
Vocalists Claire Martin and Liane Carroll celebrate diva Billie Holiday鈥檚 100th birthday by selecting music from their personal collections.
Together they navigate us through the story of Billie鈥檚 life peppered with some of her classic recordings including 鈥楪od Bless The Child鈥�, 鈥楩ine and Mellow鈥� and the iconic 鈥楽trange Fruit鈥� described by the late jazz writer Leonard Feather as "the first significant protest in words and music, the first unmuted cry against racism鈥�.
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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鈥檝e 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鈥檝e Changed
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00:57Claire Martin
Them There Eyes (Live)
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