Billie Holiday at the 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival (Part One)

[maneki9neko]

The amazing thing is how fresh her treatment of these is in this performance. She must have done each a thousand times if she did them once, and she is so present in every nuance, every ornament on the note.

[jurek46pink]

@maneki9neko

How nicely said and to the point !

[jurek46pink]

Please... make Part 2. - pleeeaaaase.

[billie44]

She loved all her dogs,but Mister was her baby

[TheFragileThunder]

OMG thank you!!!

[Individuell83]

really rare live recordings in stereo! by the great lady day :)

and I really love this color pics too

especially the ones with her dog

[MusicLoverBrian1]

Thanks for posting this great concert from Lady Day! This is such a coincidence because I just purchased this album and I can't wait until it comes in the mail. Thanks for posting some songs from this very concert that will hold me until I get the album. I love hearing Billie sing "God Bless The Child". No one can sing it like her. I heard many singers sing it but not like her but this is her song and she owns it.

[honeybee7700]

@MusicLoverBrian1 you will love this concert Brian. I have the album and it's great. You are right no one can sing "God bless the child" she wrote it and no one can top her emotional and honest delivery.

[MusicLoverBrian1]

@honeybee7700

There are a lot of songs that she sung in which I don't think no one can touch or sing as great the way she did it. Songs like Don't Explain, Traveling Light, My Man, I'm A Fool To Want You (Sinatra and Shirley Bassey are the only other renditions of this song that I like), Strange Fruit, I'll Be Seeing You (again I also like Sinatra's version too), Sophisticated Lady and lots of others seems to belong to her and I don't know how anyone can top her renditions of them.

[honeybee7700]

@MusicLoverBrian1 you are absolutely right. I agree with every song you listed no one can touch her on any of those tracks.

[honeybee7700]

wow thank you