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...Pros will take to the hard courts of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens....
...The most recognisable names — Sarah Jessica Parker, Floyd Mayweather, Jerry Springer, Dick Van Dyke, Snoop Dogg, John Cleese, Lindsay Lohan, David Hasselhoff — are no longer at the height of their careers...
...It’s a showcase not just for the NT’s back catalogue, but for theatre more widely: some of the juicy titles on offer in the first batch include Billie Piper’s superb, searing performance in Yerma (Young...
...Other albums in the series include recordings by Parker’s immediate predecessor Lester Young, titled Just You, Just Me, a Billie Holiday compilation You Go to My Head that includes “Strange Fruit”, and Ko-Ko...
...Billie Piper’s portrayal of a woman in despair at her inability to have children in Yerma won her the best actress award, her first Olivier....
...She coached some wonderful players, Chamique Holdsclaw and Candace Parker above all....
...(A small musical sidestep finds soul singer Diana Ross playing Billie Holiday in the 1972 biopic Lady Sings The Blues.)...
...Max Gordon died in 1989 and you only have to reel off the names of the artists he hired to play here — Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Miles Davis...
...“We’ve been adding to it . . . but what vocalist changed the music in a way that Bird [Charlie Parker] did?”...
...The first number implied swing and elliptically quoted Charlie Parker’s “Billie’s Bounce”, there was a lovely reverie, an oblique and funky samba and a sedate and moving memorial to bassist Charlie Haden...
...Vocalist Billie Holiday’s life was equally messy and the ravages showed in the tonal quality of her voice....
...; designers Stella McCartney and Philip Treacy; and singer Björk, dressed in McQueen wings and feathers (I kid you not), who sang the poignant ‘Gloomy Sunday’ by Billie Holiday during the service....
...Prowling the all-night jazz clubs first of New York City in the late 1940s – Birdland, the Royal Roost, Bop City – and later of Paris and London, Leonard “shot” Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker...
...Parker’s music is so integral to the jazz canon that it can easily become an inviolable mythic text....
...Good-time stalwarts Van Morrison and Maceo Parker also played to packed houses on succeeding nights....
...They even dashed off a Charlie Parker blues, “Billie’s Bounce”, and finished on the jam-session warhorse “Cherokee” with UK tenor saxophonist Julian Siegel sitting in. ★★★☆☆Tel 20 7254 4097...
...Bates and his trio’s opening blast of full-on improv soon gave way to a rhythmically liquid makeover of the Parker blues “Billie’s Bounce”....
...In the process they “discovered” Count Basie and Billie Holiday, recorded Bessie Smith and persuaded Benny Goodman to drop schmaltz. The jousting continued through the 1950s....
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