billy holiday tribute in londen feat. neneh cherry

[MAJE]

Billie & Me
a tribute to Billie Holliday

Featuring Carleen Anderson, Fontella Bass, Yolande Bavan, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terri Lyne Carrington, Neneh Cherry (MC), Farah Griffin, Angelique Kidjo, Meshell Ndegeocello, Lalah Hathaway, Susheela Raman, Amy Winehouse

A celebration of Billie Holiday’s spirit and genius with performances, readings, reinterpretations and film and audio footage, this unique event reunites an outstanding line-up of female artists, writers, poets and thinkers who took part in BBC R2’s recent ’Billie & Me’ documentary.

The event is hosted by singer and DJ Neneh Cherry and Musical Director is Terri Lyne Carrington, one of the world’s finest jazz drummers and composers.

the Barbican in London on April 5, 2004 at 7:30pm in a tribute to Billie Holliday
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one love and inner peace

[jamadianUK]

Will you be attending? I cannot make the event due to work,so any info please tell me.

[naturalone]

MAJE said:

Billie & Me
a tribute to Billie Holliday

Featuring Carleen Anderson, Fontella Bass, Yolande Bavan, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terri Lyne Carrington, Neneh Cherry (MC), Farah Griffin, Angelique Kidjo, Meshell Ndegeocello, Lalah Hathaway, Susheela Raman, Amy Winehouse

A celebration of Billie Holiday’s spirit and genius with performances, readings, reinterpretations and film and audio footage, this unique event reunites an outstanding line-up of female artists, writers, poets and thinkers who took part in BBC R2’s recent ’Billie & Me’ documentary.

The event is hosted by singer and DJ Neneh Cherry and Musical Director is Terri Lyne Carrington, one of the world’s finest jazz drummers and composers.

the Barbican in London on April 5, 2004 at 7:30pm in a tribute to Billie Holliday

one luv & inne peace quote]
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[shadow=white,left,300]how cool is that...i want to go ...i know Maje will rep.... 8-)always the coolest on the music tip......[/shadow]

[jamadianUK]

Giving tickets away on the telly & I still have to be @ work, this sucks at least I get to use the computer today .

[MAJE]

THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE MISSED:

www.timesonline.co.uk
Billie and Me
By Lisa Verrico
Jazz
Barbican




LAST YEAR Neneh Cherry narrated a radio series about Billie Holiday. This week she helped to transfer the acclaimed, women-only production to a packed Barbican stage. Often, such ideas are better in theory than in practice, but this one worked.
There were changes, of course — mainly less talk, more music, which meant a potted Holiday history, rather than the attempt of the original series to reassess the legend’s life. There were slides of the singer, snippets of her talking in interview and Cherry’s narration, which didn’t ignore Holiday’s turbulent personal life but focused on her risk-taking, groundbreaking career.



The draw of the evening, however, was more than a dozen covers of Holiday songs. Unfortunately, not all of the artists who contributed to the radio show could make it — so no Debbie Harry, Jill Scott or Mary J. Blige. But the line-up was still superb. After Cherry’s introduction, the newcomer Amy Winehouse teamed up with Lalah Hathaway on Ain’t Nobody’s Business. Winehouse wore a black, crepe, sleeveless dress and looked much more at ease than she did during her own recent shows. Then again, she did have 11 A-list musicians behind her.

Next on was surprise guest Chrissie Hynde, whom the audience was clearly pleased, if a little perplexed, to see. Hynde isn’t an obvious Holiday devotee, and it was odd to hear her perform a slow, jazzy version of I Cover the Waterfront, backed by brushed drums, tinkling piano and sax. It was even stranger to watch her stand still in a sober suit, then shuffle off without uttering a word. In fact, that was the one flaw of the evening. Had the singers explained what they liked about Holiday, or how they had discovered her, it would have been more intimate. The veteran jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater finally broke the ice by chatting about playing Holiday in the stage musical Lady Day. She also gave three of the night’s best performances, of I Hear Music and Lover Come Back To Me in the first half of the show and the seminal Strange Fruit just after the interval. Bridgewater not only came closest to sounding like Holiday, she had the moves down pat, swaying in a floor-length green dress and playing with an old-fashioned fan in her hand.

Among the other guests were Me’Shell NdegeOcello, Carleen Anderson, who sang a smoky jazz cover of Some Other Spring, and Fontella Bass, who turned Travelin’ into a broody, R’n’B number. The night ended with an ensemble performance of I’ll Be Seeing You, for which even Cherry left her lectern and joined in.

If the ladies have their way, a Holiday revival won’t be far off.