Thursday, 4/7/11

by musicclipoftheday

Happy (96th) Birthday, Billie!

Tune in to WKCR-FM (broadcasting from Columbia University) and you’ll swear you must’ve died and gone to heaven—it’s all Billie, all day.

Billie Holiday, “The Blues Are Brewin'” (with Louis Armstrong, trumpet), New Orleans (1947)

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Joan Mitchell, Chamonix (c. 1962), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston