Billie Holiday Live At The Plaza 1958 part 2 don't explain

[teddypantelas]

The Best!!! This vesrsion is too much. Love It. thanks for posting.

[blackloveincense]

She is a poet! The ending sent me to a place I may never return from & thats a good thing.

[fruitistic]

I am so happy we have recordings of this artist. My most favoratie muse.

[blubirdstudioz]

i came here after i read the lady who sings the blues

[MahoganyArchives]

Thank you so much for this and a special thanks to Irving Townsend, for us younger fans would never have heard this. A++

[ssg263]

9.9.1958

A party thrown by and for Columbia execs to celebrate their successful jazz division. The Miles Davis "kind of blue" Sextet, Duke Ellington & his orchestra, and Jimmy Rush were also playing the party.

Irving Townsend, producer for Columbia, secretly ran the tapes to capture this moment in time forever and never intended to release them. The musicians didn't even know they were being recorded. The records weren't released till 1970s. I'm glad this special moment in time was captured.

[paul51]

Love this vocal . . . and what fab pictures!!

[MusicLoverBrian1]

@paul51

I LOVE this song ALOT!! Billie Holiday wrote this song based on a real life experience that happened in her life. I love how at the end of the song she says the words "don't explain" at a more faster pace which is a little different from the other ways that she ended the song. But Lady Day said that she usually don't sing the same tunes the same way. No matter how many times she sung the same song she brings something different to it. What a master!

[loulou2lou]

Thanks so much for posting this.Billie and Judy are my two very favorite vocal artists.

[damone77]

So fabulous!  Thanks so much for this post.