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“I saw the whole world in that face. All of the beauty and all of the misery.” From the documentary Billie (2020).

Born on this day: regal, soulful and ravaged jazz diva Billie Holiday (née Eleanora Fagan, 7 April 1915 – 17 July 1959). Lady Day’s bruised but defiant (and sexy as hell) spirit lives every time you listen to her music. My favourite songs of hers will always be “Good Morning Heartache”, “I’m a Fool to Want You”, “Don’t Explain” and “You’ve Changed.” Pictured: portrait of Holiday by Carl Van Vechten, 1949.

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Hey There

Happy Birthday Ichigo!!!!🎊

The artwork depicts Masaki singing a lullaby to her newborn son, Ichigo. It's a lovely tribute to Ichigo on his birthday.

"Hey There"

💙🌸A song by Ellyn Stern 🌸💙

Lately when I'm in my room All by myself In the solitary gloom I call to myself

Hey there You with the stars in your eyes Love never made a fool of you You use to be too wise

Hey there You on that high flyin' cloud Though he won't throw a crumb to you You think someday he'll come to you

Better forget him Him with his nose in the air He has you dancin' on a string Break it and he won't care

Won't you take this advice I hand you like a mother Or are you not seein' things too clear Are you too much in love to hear? Is it all goin' in one ear and out the other

Hey there You with the stars in your eyes (Are you talking to me?) Love never made a fool of you (Not until now) You used to be too wise (Yes, I was once)

Will you take this advice I hand you like a mother Or am I not seein' things too clear Are you just too far gone to hear? Is it all goin' in one ear and out the other

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Ella!!!

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Mary Lou Williams is probably the most important female African-American jazz pianist. Williams was also a fine songwriter and arran...

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Susie Arioli - After You've Gone

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"Sassy is so good now that when I listen to her, I want to cut my wrists with a dull razor." Frank Sinatra

Whether you call her “Sassy” or “The Divine One”, wondrous jazz diva Sarah Vaughan (27 March 1924 – 3 April 1990) was born on this day 101 years ago. My favourite song of hers will always be “Interlude” (“The shadow of night all around me / I walk in a moonlight solitude / When I thought romance really found me / Love was just an interlude …”). Oh, and Vaughan’s finger-snappin’ version of “One Mint Julep” slaps HARD!

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Born on this day 105 years ago: incomparably sultry torch singer Peggy Lee (Norma Deloris Egstrom, 26 May 1920 - 21 January 2002). As her biographer James Gavin writes in the essential Is That All There Is? The Strange Life of Peggy Lee (2015), the jazz enchantress conveyed maximum emotional (and erotic) impact with little more than a languid murmur: "a tough purr that kicked open the bedroom door." “Those who saw her at New York’s Basin Street East or the Copacabana in the 60s know firsthand the Peggy Lee of legend: a seductive blonde who controlled the stage like a puppeteer,” Gavin continues. “Her throaty voice floated on a wisp of breath yet could drive a whole orchestra. Characters materialized one by one - a barroom vamp on the make, an indomitable housewife, a faded woman exposing her loneliness.” You can hear Lee’s bewitching artistry on definitive musical statements like the finger-snapping “Fever”, the swirling Latin exotica of “Lover” (which – as Gavin writes - Lee attacked “like a panther in heat”), “Johnny Guitar”, “I’m a Woman” (“a feminist anthem with a stripper beat”), “Black Coffee” and the supremely world-weary “Is That All There Is?” (originally intended for Marlene Dietrich). I especially love the eerie “The Case of MJ” from her 1975 album Mirrors, in which Lee casts herself as an institutionalized mentally ill woman, alternating between numb childlike compliance (“Mary Jane's been a good girl today / She ate all her peas / She said, "thank you" and "please"”) and stabs at defiance (“Mary Jane tried to run away / Mary Jane has been naughty today …”). Pictured: Peter Hujar’s portrait of the diva in 1974.