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Billie Holiday @ 100 with Liane Carroll & Claire Martin

Vocalists Claire Martin and Liane Carroll celebrate diva Billie Holiday’s 100th birthday.

Vocalists Claire Martin and Liane Carroll celebrate diva Billie Holiday’s 100th birthday by selecting music from their personal collections.

Together they navigate us through the story of Billie’s life peppered with some of her classic recordings including ‘God Bless The Child’, ‘Fine and Mellow’ and the iconic ‘Strange Fruit’ described by the late jazz writer Leonard Feather as "the first significant protest in words and music, the first unmuted cry against racism”.

1 hour

Last on

Fri 13 Nov 2015 14:00

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:02

    Billie Holiday & Teddy Wilson

    What A Little Moonlight Can Do

  • 00:09

    Billie Holiday

    I’ve Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

  • 00:15

    Billie Holiday

    Strange Fruit

  • 00:20

    Billie Holiday

    The Man I Love

  • 00:25

    Billie Holiday

    I Cover The Waterfront

  • 00:30

    Billie Holiday

    Don't Explain

  • 00:37

    Billie Holiday

    Lover Man

  • 00:43

    Billie Holiday

    Fine And Mellow

  • 00:47

    Billie Holiday

    God Bless The Child

  • 00:52

    Billie Holiday

    You’ve Changed

  • 00:57

    Claire Martin

    Them There Eyes (Live)

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  • Fri 13 Nov 2015 14:00

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