TV Guide: Billie Holiday

Video: WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO

Video Detective — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

What A Little Moonlight Can Do movie trailer - starring Billie Holiday.

Video: I LEFT MY BABY

Video Detective — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

I Left My Baby movie trailer - starring Count Basie, Lester Young, Billie Holiday.

Video: Amy Winehouse: Revving @ 4500 RPMs and Justified

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

In this documentary, you will find out who Amy Winehouse truly is and was, and why she is still searching for herself. In 2003, Amy Winehouse debuted her first album, "Frank". When she first burst onto the scene, she was considered to be as soulful as the sultry sisters of yesteryear, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn and Dina Washington. In 2008, that is no longer the case. Besides her controversial Grammy wins, she has been shunned by the industry critics and artists by the likes of Natalie Cole and many oth. ers. This situation has arisen because of the young singer's public display of hard alcohol and drug use. Amy Winehouse is a good girl gone train wreck with the help of husband Blake Fielder-Civil, whom with no doubt helped create this monster. Amy Winehouse: this is a true cracked case scenario.

Video: Amy Winehouse: Revving @ 4500 RPMs and Justified

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: The Adventure (1956-1960)

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

For jazz, the late 1950s is a period of transition when old stars like Billie Holiday and Lester Young will burn out while young talents arise to take the music in new directions. New virtuosos push the limits of bebop: saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins; jazz diva Sarah Vaughan; and the drummer Art Blakey. But the leading light of the era is Miles Davis whose lush recordings expand the jazz audience; and a cultural icon whose tough-guy charisma comes to define what's hip. As the turbulent Sixties arrive, two saxophonists take jazz into uncharted terrain. John Coltrane explodes the pop tune My Favorite Things, while Ornette Coleman challenges all conventions with a sound he calls "free jazz."

Video: Swing: Pure Pleasure (1935-1937)

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

As the Great Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as it has ever come to being America's popular music. It has a new name, Swing, and for millions of young fans, it will be the defining music of their generation. Benny Goodman is hailed as the "King of Swing" and Billie Holiday begins her career as the greatest of all female jazz singers.

Video: Madeleine Peyroux, 'Instead'

CBS News — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux is in this week's Second Cup Cafe. She's known for her amazing covers of songs associated with Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Bob Dylan. Peyroux performs 'Instead'.

Video: Billie Holiday: Mini Bio

Biography — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A short biography of Billie Holiday.

Video: Billie Holiday: Mini Bio

Biography — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A short biography of Billie Holiday.

Video: Cheaters, The (1945) -- Flaunting One's Wealth

TCM — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

J.C. Pidgeon (Eugene Pallette) returns home to holiday preparations where wife Clara (Billie Burke) informs him of new etiquette regarding Christmas trees in The Cheaters, 1945.

Video: WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO

Singing Fool — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Album: JAZZ VOICE: VOL. 1: LADIES SING JAZZ; Label: MVD Music Video

Video: Diana Ross on Being Billie

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Season 13, Episode 4: Diana Ross shares the experience of her very first acting role as Billie Holiday in "Lady Sings the Blues."

Video: 'La Vie En Rose' - Trailer No. 1

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Writer/director Olivier Dahan (Crimson Rivers II) helmed La Vie en Rose, the screen biopic of tragic French songstress Edith Piaf. Marion Cotillard portrays Piaf, the superstar once raised as a young girl by her grandmother in a Normandy bordello, then discovered on a French street corner -- as a complete unknown -- by cabaret proprietor Louis Lepl e (G rard Depardieu). The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life -- such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean-Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid-'40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the '50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizatio

Video: On This Day: April 7

iVillage — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The Rogers and Hammerstein musical 'South Pacific' made its Broadway debut, and Billie Holiday, Francis Ford Coppola and Russell Crowe were born.