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Esperanza Spalding photo by Andrea Palmucci

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Billie Holiday recording the album Music for Touching. Photographed by Phil Stern, August 25, 1955.

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“On Dec. 8, 1957, CBS producer Robert Herridge assembled many of the great pioneers of jazz to perform together on live television, as part of ‘The Sound of Jazz.’ One of the most memorable performances of the night was Billie Holiday’s ‘Fine and Mellow.’ By 1957, Holiday had experienced her share of trouble with drugs and hard living, and her voice was not what it once had been. Yet that day, on the set of 'The Sound of Jazz,’ it was clear that she was still a singer with an impeccable sense of timing and a style that could convey both joy and suffering. Nat Hentoff, music writer and part of the production team that organized ‘The Sound of Jazz,’ recalls the highlight of the broadcast:

'The song she sang that, to most people (including me), was the climax of the show was one of the few songs that she herself ever wrote: 'Fine and Mellow.’ It’s a basic 12-bar blues. It may be the only blues song she ever wrote, although the language of the blues, the texture of the blues, the cry of the blues was always part of what she did.’”