It's a slow, cold Sunday, and I've been looking to put up this clip for a while. Today, I dare say, is the day.
This is Billie Holiday performing "Fine and Mellow" on the 1957 TV special The Sound of Jazz. Lester "Prez" Young takes the second sax solo, one of the loveliest in music. Within two years both Holiday and Young would be dead; she of cirrhosis of the liver, he of cancer.
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