A woman in a yellow dress sings on stage with a band behind her. The camera remains static throughout the performance. More about Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club →
Video Transcript
What you are going to listen to tonight is my love attack for Billie Holiday. Ooh, Billie Holiday. For Billie Holiday and Leslie Young. The early days of Billie. So it doesn't sound like, you know, like inspectors. Billie Holiday and Leslie Young means a lot. It means a lot to me that these old songs get sung again, and that we remember them from their sweet times. You know, Billy and Lester, they met with Count Basie. They were playing with the Basie band. And because he was the Count, then Lester Young gave Miss Billie Holiday the name Lady, her lady name, and then she called him President. And these were the early songs. There's also some resistance.