Linda delivers due diligence and interviews all the people involved to come up with an answer, or answers, that are closer to the truth than any other biographer. }, 50); Cafe Society owner Barney Josephson says that it wasnt unusual for white customers to walk out of the club and complain if Holiday performed the song. Holiday is clearly listening to, engaging with, and nodding her approval and at times stony apathy for the licks the instrumentalists take during their solos. However, Linda's book was never finished and the tapes never heard . Line: 479 As much as Holiday was the first master of microphone singing, she is also a master of the camera. Kim Nalley, a PHD Candidate in History at University of California Berkeley, is a historian, playwright, and actress and is most known as jazz & blues singer with a powerful, 3 1/2 octave range that can go from operatic to gritty blues on a dime, projection that can whisper a ballad yet is capable of filling a room with no microphone, and the ability to scat blistering solos without ever losing the crowds interest or the intense swing. An epilogue at the end of the documentary mentions that because of the destruction of police records, investigations into Lindas death made during the film proved inconclusive., In the documentary, Luftman explains why her sister wanted to write a Billie Holiday biography: Even thought they came from totally different backgrounds, I think she really identified with Billie. That face! Kuehls only objective was to understand Holiday better, which she does better than any other biographer of Billie Holiday. Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. Beloved daughter of Sol and Ida Llpnack and loving sister of Myra Luttman died February 6th, 1978. }; Particularly jarring is a small girl made up to look as if she was Billie as a child. They had an instantaneous and passionate romance, married, and in 1963, Linda gave birth to their first child, Heather Louise. Calling Holiday a chick singer is an understatement, but it is relevant that we understand how the world saw Holiday during her time and how she saw herself. } }); Show more 3 months left to watch 1 hour, 30 minutes Last on. if('' == 'floating') { At one point, she began to receive strange, threatening calls. if ('' == 'left') var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772606EmbedPopup63c877fb834ac'); [3] She interviewed almost 200 peoplefriends, family members, band members, peers from 1930s Harlem, piano players, psychiatrists and a pimpand was still finding people in 1978. Joe Guy, a trumpet player in her band, was also one of her main drug connections. var popupTrigger = jQuery("#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb83722"); Holidays mother Sadie (who took an interested in her daughters career) was nicknamed Duchess. The audio recordings in Billie come from the archives of New York City-based journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who died by falling from a hotel in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 1978. }, 50); The book was never completed, but the tapes have been . jQuery(wrapper).css('top', jQuery(window).height() * 0.4 - wrapper.outerHeight()); Many important details of her life and her musical genius have been overshadowed by a lurid interest in her love life and drug use. resize77260563c877fb83722(wrapper); The images of her are legion. She was the victim of repeated sexual abuse. She interviewed and interviewed. She wasnt making enough money. captainform_preload_form_popup(popupParams); For those who wish to delve more deeply into her interviews, the Julia Blackburn book With Billie is a collection of Kuehls transcriptions. Dr. James Hamilton, a psychiatrist who interviewed Holiday when she was in prison, had this diagnosis of her. The description of Holiday as fast would no longer be an appropriate description of a prepubescent girl who had been raped at age 10 and sent to reform school because of it. captainformCustomVars['772606'] = ''; Using the countless hours of recorded interviews Kuehl left behind, Erskine has crafted a film around the jazz singer's life and the journalist's attempt to capture it. if ('' == 'left') textContent: 'var frmRef=""; try { frmRef=window.top.location.href; } catch(err) {}; var captainform_servicedomain="app.captainform.com";var cfJsHost = "https://";', Wells, African Americans were most often lynched because they were financially successful or not deferential enough. Enjoy our special Billie Holiday Gallery of photos, posters, record covers, surprises and film clips with lots of great music. Then there's the story of journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who had been working on a biography of Holiday for nearly a decade before she met her own untimely death in 1978. } How Kuehl managed to construct Billies life and Kuehls life is just as interesting as Holidays life in my opinion. The years with Teddy Wilson that brought her to fame are barely discussed. ("elementType"in e))return!1;var n=null;if(n=e.following?e.following.parentElement:e.inside?e.inside:e.replacing?e.replacing.parentElement:"script"==e.elementType?document.head:document.body,null==n)return!1;var l=document.createElement(e.elementType);delete e.elementType,l=jQuery.extend(l,e),e.replacing?n.replaceChild(l,e.replacing):n.appendChild(l)}; var captainformThemeStyle = {}; To describe it any other way is to diminish her musicianship. The journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl worked for years on a Billie Holiday biography before Kuehl's sudden death in 1978. var captainformThemeStyle = {}; Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_harry_book.php captainForm772605PreloadInterval63c877fb83722 = setInterval(function(){ It also brings up a few necessary, if rarely confronted questions. if('' == 'floating') { if (document.getElementById('captainform_js_global_vars') == null) { In the late-1960s - some 10 years after the performer's death - journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday (below). Are you sure you want to cancel your membership with us? Even though she performed a historic sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall after she was let out of prison in 1948 (at the time, Carnegie Hall was a venue for classical and opera music, not jazz), the damage to her reputation was done. The chief suspect in Lipnack Kuehl's killing was Billie's manager and husband, Louis McKay. jQuery(wrapper).css('top', jQuery(window).height() * 0.4 + wrapper.width() + wrapper.css('padding').replace('px', '') * 2); [3] She worked as a high school teacher and free lance writer. [3] The interviews were a major source for the text in Robert O'Meally's book of photographs Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1991)[12] and around the same were used for the script for a Masters of American Music series documentary of the same name. Nalleys Ballads for Billie is now available on CD or as a digital album. Kuehl had. According to Ida B. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); with her dark dresses, and smooth-straightened glossy dark hair and the white gardenias (or lily or orchid.) It seems amazing that most writers have speculated on the reason Billie Holiday left both the Basie Band and the Shaw Band without getting the testimony of Basie and Shaw themselves. Her archive passed to a private collector and was later used in other writers' biographies of Holiday. id: "captainform_js_global_vars", Crisp colorized film footage of Holiday with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1950 shows us why she was called the greatest jazz singer ever during her life and now over 100 years after her birth. The Billie documentary gives added depth to Holidays memoir, since it includes the perspectives of people who talk about things that Holiday didnt want to talk about in her book. Billie Holiday is the subject of the documentary, and theres expected archival footage of her in her film. [4], She was a Jewish feminist[5] and a fan of Billie Holiday. }); resize77260563c877fb83722(wrapper); They are particularly pertinent, showing what kind of child she was and what the neighborhood was like for poor African Americans. At the time of her death, she and McKay were separated and not divorced. Eleanors favorite curse words were motherfucker and cocksucker., By all accounts, Eleanor started working as a housecleaner/maid before she was a teenager. }); Her death was ruled a suicide. captainformThemeStyle['772606'] = ''; } In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. elementType: "script", On 6 February 1978, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl fell from the balcony of a Washington DC hotel. Function: view, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/index.php }); During the famous 1957 Sound of Jazz television recording of Fine & Mellow others have described Holidays face as smacked out on drugs or liquor; instead, this film makes it clear that the ecstasy on Holidays face is from hearing the sounds of her musical soulmate saxophonist Lester Young play. Protest songs became more prevalent in the 1960s, but Holiday was a pioneer. Over the next decade, she tracked down and tape-recorded hundreds of hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. popupTrigger.css('visibility', 'visible'); Jo Jones says bitterly and vehemently, Holiday was persecuted less for the song Strange Fruit or drugs and more for being an uppity Negress who lived large wearing furs, diamonds, driving a Cadillac and spending money freely. }); John Levy became her manager and lover, even though he was married at the time. Did someone consider the pairs intimacy a threat? var popupParams = { Line: 315 Her make-up is minimal. Being a solo act gave Holiday the freedom to record whats considered the most important and most controversial song of her career: Strange Fruit. Written by Abel Meeropol under the alias Lewis Allan, and released in 1939, the song is a poetically brutal commentary on racial injustice, particularly in describing the lynching of black people in the South. Kuehl was and still is, posthumously, THE preeminent biographer of Billie Holiday, despite never having completed Holiday's biography before she died in 1978. var append_element = append_element || function(e){if(void 0==e)return!1;if(! [11][14][15] Documentary director James Erskine bought the rights to Kuehl's tapes[3] and his subsequent film, Billie (2019), is "a journey through Holiday's life, narrated by the voices on those tapes",[3][14][16][17] including Kuehl's. Then, before she could finish her biography, Kuehl died: In 1978, her body was found on a Washington, D.C. street. Her stillness is fantastic for the camera. UNSUNG HEROES THROUGH THE NIGHT- Special Free Screening Thursday, Jan. 19, NEW YEARS CHEER- A Nostalgic Look at Past New Years Through Images, Movies and Music, They Were Calling It the Twentieth Century, THE ART OF EATING: THE LIFE OF M.F.K. var captainformDomReady = captainformDomReady || function(e){var t=!1,n=function(){document.addEventListener? } By the time that Holiday was arrested in 1947, she listed her marital status as separated. She and Monroe got divorced the same year. The most important takeaway from Jo Jones is that anyone who believes music has no color negates the experiences of African American musicians who lived with racism dictating almost every aspect of their lives. The Official Billie Holiday website maintained by the Estate of Billie Holiday and hosted by Concord Jazz. Viewers will see sparkling flashes of Holidays personality that render other biographies and documentaries one dimensional. captainform_create_form_popup(popupParams); append_element({ resize77260663c877fb829bf(wrapper); } In an archival radio interview, Holiday says, I always knew I could sing, but I didnt know I could make money out of it, until I was working in a little joint called The Hot Cha. Pigmeat Markham, an entertainer who knew Holiday in her early days as a performer, remembers that Holiday had stagefright.. Monroe would become Holidays first husband, whom she married in 1941. elementType: "script", There were reports that McKay was very controlling and unscrupulous when it came to Holidays finances. 9.45pm, BBC Two Director James Erskine brings this detailed, fascinating documentary charting the tumultuous life of jazz singer Billie Holiday, based on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted. Over 8 years, she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. }, 10); Before completing her work, Kuehl died suddenly in February 1978. The next thing I know, she was using coke.. FamousFix profile for Linda Lipnack Kuehl including biography information, wikipedia facts, photos, galleries, news, youtube videos, quotes . Function: view, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/controllers/Main.php ("elementType"in e))return!1;var n=null;if(n=e.following?e.following.parentElement:e.inside?e.inside:e.replacing?e.replacing.parentElement:"script"==e.elementType?document.head:document.body,null==n)return!1;var l=document.createElement(e.elementType);delete e.elementType,l=jQuery.extend(l,e),e.replacing?n.replaceChild(l,e.replacing):n.appendChild(l)}; Both died young Holiday at age 44, of liver cirrhosis. gallery of images and videos of both singers. Like the singer she idolized and identified with, Linda Lipnack Kuehl had her own bad habits, failed relationships and dreams unfulfilled. Her second drug bust came in San Francisco in 1949, but she didnt get any prison time for that arrest. This is not to say that there is no filmed footage. Presentations and performance on Billie Holiday include: Rethinking Billie Holiday on her Centennial (Google Talk), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism with Angela Davis (SFJAZZ), Your email address will not be published. [2] Various other writers' biographies on Holiday have drawn upon Kuehl's material, as did the film Billie (2019), which is narrated by Kuehl's recorded interviews. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies, Wondrous sounds: Billie Holiday in the early 1950s. Billie is playing in selected cinemas and various streaming services. Linda Lipnack Kuehl spent eight years trying to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Erskine at least benefits from the basic volume of his source material. Milt Hilton, a bass player who worked with Holiday during her last music recording sessions, remembers: She was in pretty bad shape. He took many of the widely published photos of her during these last sessions. Born in Philadelphia in 1915, Billie Holiday was raised in poverty in Baltimore, where she ran errands in a brothel as a child, before moving to New York in 1928. Billie stands in magnificent glory in a dark long-sleeved dress with a portrait collar that shows off her face. "[9] However, Kuehl did not complete the book. Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. When she was released from jail at age 14, she left prostitution for good and set her sights on singing for a living. Like all documentaries there is never enough music and with a woman such as Billie who lived an expansive life in 44 years it would be impossible for one feature length film to cover everything. The film consists almost entirely of Kuehls recordings she had 125 cassettes worth of interviews and snippets of her writing, the latter played out over dramatic reconstructions of hands hovering above a typewriter. One thing everyone agrees on is that Holiday grew up rough and grew up fast, which undoubtedly shaped the person she became later in life. var captainformDomReady = captainformDomReady || function(e){var t=!1,n=function(){document.addEventListener? But the time she was 13, she was a prostitute. 2019 Directed by James Erskine Synopsis She sang the truth, she paid the price 'Lady Day' was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. She began working on the Holiday biography in 1971 and interviewed an impressive number of people. type: "text/javascript", Holiday co-wrote her 1956 memoir Lady Sings the Blues with William Dufty, and the book became the basis of the 1972 feature film of the same name, starring Diana Ross, who earned an Oscar nomination for her role as Holiday. A la fin des annes 1960, la journaliste Linda Lipnack Kuehl commence une biographie officielle de l'artiste. captainformThemeStyle['772605'] = ''; Eleanoras parents got married when she was 3 years old, and she was raised primarily in Baltimore. Shes a psychopath. While interviewer Kuehl can be heard gasping in shock when she hears this description, Hamilton elaborates that Holiday was impulse-driven, strong, talented but not a dependable individual. He noted that he thinks that Holidays inability to control her impulses made her psychopathic. Maria Bryant, a singer and friend of Holidays, calls Levy a dirty, rotten, stinking bastard., In 1945, Holiday moved on to Louis McKay, who would become her manager and then her second husband. Her romances didnt get any better. append_element({ textContent: 'var frmRef=""; try { frmRef=window.top.location.href; } catch(err) {}; var captainform_servicedomain="app.captainform.com";var cfJsHost = "https://";', Oral history is only as good as the interviewer and Kuehl, a very attractive white woman, put her interviewees at ease by interviewing them most often in bars where they worked and turning off the microphone when asked. A 1947 shootout with cops in Philadelphia led to Holidays first arrest for narcotics possession. (Its one of the reasons why biopics about Holiday portray her in very different ways.). In 1928, Holiday and her mother moved to New York Citys Harlem neighborhood. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 February 6, 1978)[1] was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. The director of this documentary bought her research, and uses it well. A talented journalist who wrote a biography about the songstress 20 years after her gradual death, Kuehl dedicated a decade to interviewing the friends and artists who knew Holiday best. Linda Lipnack Kuehl (January 24, 1940 February 6, 1978)[1] was an American arts journalist, based in New York City. Sarah Julia Sadie Fagan (a maid) was 13 when she gave birth to Eleanora, and Clarence Halliday (a musician) was 15. And by the age of 14, Holiday was singing professionally in nightclubs. Then in the late 1960's journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie. She did not see [Billie Holiday] as the victim, which is the way she had been portrayed.. Over the next decade, she tracked down and tape-recorded interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. Intending to write a biography of Billie Holiday, she interviewed friends, fellow performers, and key figures in Holiday's life, but died before its completion. Kuehl was white, born in the Bronx and relatively prosperous. [6] In 1971, she began plans for a biography of Holiday, who had died aged 44 in 1959. Did Kuehl jump, or was she pushed? It is maintained is rich with photos, videos, book information, quotes, and, of course, music.Plan to spend some time there. popupTrigger.click(function(){ The Last Dance, which chronicles the rise of basketball superstar Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls, won the documentary series Emmy ahead of American Masters, Hillary, McMillion$ and. The biopic will follow Holiday's life through the eyes of Linda Lipnack Kuehl, who as a fan and literary journalist in 1970 began a biography of Holiday. I do not see the same attention given to Miles Daviss or Charlie Parkers drug use or their abusive relationships. Holiday corrects an interviewer saying that she was fourteen when she arrived in New York. Line: 24 MTT invited her to sing a program of Gershwin with the San Francisco Symphony and she subsequently became a Rounder Records recording artist and went on a worldwide tour gracing concert halls from Moscow to Lincoln Center and festivals from Umbria Jazz to Monterey Jazz garnering effusiveinternational press and many awards. captainformCustomVars['772605'] = ''; She spoke to Holidays friends, and to those who had been there for the most transformative chapters of her life. Lipstick and brow pencil are the hallmark features. }, 10); setTimeout(function () { Hopefully someday a filmmaker will be able to tackle the intersectionality of Holiday being both Black and a woman when neither had many rights, and Holiday as a jazz genius when singers were considered neither musicians nor geniuses. Kuehl died in what was deemed. Over the next decade, she tracked down and tape-recorded interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer's short, tumultuous life. else if ('' == 'right') We dont call this entertainment. Jazz musician Charles Mingus says Strange Fruit was very impactful because it shows that Holiday was fighting for equality before Martin Luther King. window.addEventListener('resize', function(){ Culture Audience:Billie will appeal primarily to people who are interested in a raw and authentic look at Holidays life, as told by people who knew her best. captainform_preload_form_popup(popupParams); Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. } Kuehl was a journalist and high school teacher that interviewed close to 200 people that knew Ms. Holliday. formId: '772606' (Courtesy of the Kuehl family) Kuehl left behind a trove of notes, transcripts and some 200 hours of interviews on cassette tapesmostly in shoeboxes, some labeled, some not. Instead we hear the voices of personal friends and colleagues who often played with Holiday, such as Count Basie and Artie Shaw. This unusual, ambitious doc doubles down on the challenge, adding an extra frame to the portrait: the obsession that drove journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl to toil for years on an epic biography of . Jimmy Flashy Monroe [a pimp who became a trombonist in Holidays band] broke them up. James Erskine's documentary, built around lengthy interviews conducted in the 1970s by journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl, demonstrates how dangerous it can be to mesh with one's subject matter. Review: Billie (2020), an oral history of Billie Holidays life. var wrapper = jQuery('#captainformForm772605EmbedPopup63c877fb83722'); [11] "Police deemed it suicide, Kuehl having supposedly jumped from her hotel room, although there was no proof of this",[3] and her family believes she may have been murdered. }, true); var captainformCustomVars = {}; Tony Bennett, who says he briefly knew Holiday, sums up the way a lot of people feel about Holiday: She told her own story, just by being herself. var readyStateOverflowInterval; Function: _error_handler, Message: Invalid argument supplied for foreach(), File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/user/popup_modal.php Detroit Red, a dancer work worked with Holiday at The Hot Cha, remembers: At that particular time, the only vice she had was smoking [marijuana] reefers. Later, Holiday became an alcoholic and addicted to cocaine and heroin. [3] The interviews were a major source for the text in Robert O'Meally's book of photographs Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1991)[12] and around the same were used for the script for a Masters of American Music series documentary of the same name. "She excited me with just three notes," drummer Roy Harte tells Kuehl. [13] Some of Kuehl's material was used in Donald Clarke's 1994 biography, Wishing on the Moon[14] and her interviews were used in Julia Blackburn's 2005 biography With Billie: a New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day. Linda Lipnack Kuehl - Biography - IMDb Edit Linda Lipnack Kuehl Biography It looks like we don't have any Biography for Linda Lipnack Kuehl yet. Talk:Linda Lipnack Kuehl - Wikipedia Talk:Linda Lipnack Kuehl This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects : Start a discussion about improving the Linda Lipnack Kuehl page Talk pages are where people discuss how to make content on Wikipedia the best that it can be. However, Linda's book was never finished and the tapes never heard . Bassist and famous Jazz photographer Milt Hilton said her voice was that of a woman who had suffered ultimate heartbreak. He reportedly ripped her off. She wanted to retire and care for orphans. Music producer Marty Gabler says in the documentary that Columbia Records didnt want to release Strange Fruit because of the social content and because of how unusual it was to do a protest song. Strange Fruit is considered historically important because it was one of the first social justice songs released by a mainstream performer prior to the U.S. civil rights movement. As a woman, Kuehl seems to instinctively know that Holidays last husband, Louis McKay (Holiday filed for divorce but it was not completed before she died), who owned the rights to Billies estate after her death was an unreliable hustler who was prone to say anything to interviewers as long as he was paid for the interview. There was a rebellious engine inside both of them. captainform_create_form_popup(popupParams); Earl Zaiding, who was Holidays lawyer, calls McKay a pathological liar.. jQuery(wrapper).find('a').removeAttr('href'); if(typeof cfJsHost != 'undefined'){ jQuery(wrapper).css('top', jQuery(window).height() * 0.4 - wrapper.outerHeight()); Its implied that her addiction issues were inherited, because Sandy Williams, a bandmate of Holidays father Clarence, describes Clarence as a happy-go-lucky guy who loved his booze and was often drunk. This documentary offers viewers the rare opportunity to see Billie Holiday through the eyes of those who knew her best. The project is centered around 200 hours of previously. Billie Holiday. The scene in Harlem was dense with famous clubs, famous musicians and a seemingly endless supply of white patrons eager to slum and see African American entertainment. Linda Lipnack Kuehl was an American high-school teacher and arts journalist, based in Washington. Kuehl was twice-divorced with no children, while Basie was married with children. In the documentary interview, Hammond says, There was a real problem between Billie and Basie. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. [3] She worked as a high school teacher and free lance writer. The song she chose exposed discrimination, [by] putting it on stage., Jazz/swing singer Billy Eckstine says that one of the biggest racial inequality problems that black artists had to deal with was that their music was being controlled and judged by white people. According to Luftman, her sister Kuehl was threatened by people close to Count Basie, who became close to Kuehl when she interviewed him for the book. Her family, however, believed otherwise. 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