The Genius of Lady Day (DVD)

Label : EforFilms
The tumultuous existence of an irresistible woman and legendary artist.
With Count Basie, Lester Young, Doc Cheatham, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Gerry Mulligan, Mal Waldron, Louis Armstrong.
Total Time: 65 mins.

This DVD uncovers the life and career of this "dark lady of the sonnets" including many bonus tracks with rare TV and movie clips, her four sequences of "New Orleans" (her unique appearance on a Hollywood movie) and the extremely rare 15-minute musical short directed by Will Cowan and presenting Count Basie and his Sextet, Billie Holiday and "Sugar Chile" Robinson: a virtual triptych of talent, for the first time complete. "With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the U.S. assuring her generation has been touched in some way by her genius."