The United States vs Billie Holiday Sonja Hartl und Thomas Wörtche haben Lee Daniels‘ Film über Billie Holiday gesehen. Seltsame Früchte Eine Filmkritik von Sonja Hartl Sie soll dieses Lied nicht singen. Es heize die Leute an, es führe zu Aufruhr, noch dazu wurde es von einem Kommunisten geschrieben. Aber Billie Holiday (Audra Day) kümmert das nur wenig, sie will Strange Fruit singen, will Stellung zu beziehen zu Lynchmorden an Schwarzen in den USA. In Lee Daniels Film The United States vs. Billie Holiday wird es lange dauern, bis die
Read More Looking at Lester There are several, often conflicted, ways of looking at Lester Young, the American tenor player who was born, one of six children, in Woodville, Mississippi, in 1909, and who died, a crumpled, sick man, in March 1959. One comes from the poet, William Matthews, in an interview with Dave Johnson, originally published in the High Plains Literary Review in 1995. Young was the Donald Barthelme of saxophone storytellers. The work is elliptical, funny, smart, blithe surfaced, and endlessly sad. Another, quite opposite, comes from another tenor saxophonist,
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