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Billie Holiday est morte à New York le 17 juillet 1959, à l'âge de 44 ans. ~ Billie Holiday Dies Here at 44 ; Jazz Singer Had Wide Influence (The New York Times, 18/7/1959)   Billie Holiday, famed jazz singer, died yesterday in Metropolitan Hospital. Her age was 44. The immediate cause of death was given as congestion of the lungs complicated by heart failure. Miss Holiday had lived at 26 West Eighty-seventh Street. She had been under arrest in her hospital bed since June 12 for illegal possession of narcotics. ... [Lire la suite]

Une histoire drôle, pour changer. Elle nous vient de Marc Lelangue (clic), un homme qui aime rire. C'est Raminagrobis qui me l'a fait suivre, je l'en remercie de tout cœur. Et je la dédie à Jean-Pierre J. (critique et historien, distributeur de films, éditeur, traducteur et, bien entendu, batteur). In the summer of 1969, a mail sorter at a New York post office received a letter addressed «To The Greatest Drummer in the World.» There was no address or return address and the sorter wasn’t sure what to do. Fortunately,... [Lire la suite]