Jay Weston, producer of films like “Lady Sings the Blues” and “Buddy Buddy,” died of natural causes Feb. 28 at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 93. Weston first met Billie ...

Few voices in recorded music are as immediately distinctive and arresting as that of "Lady Day." Billie Holiday: 'Lady Sings the Blues' A musician's musician with a radiant voice, an impeccable sense ...

Jay Weston, who was working as a publicist when a chance meeting with Billie Holiday at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival would lead to the producing of her 1972 biopic Lady Sings the Blues, died ...

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year, by Paul Alexander. Knopf. 368 pages. $32. Early on in Billie Holiday’s 1956 memoir Lady Sings the Blues, she recalls the ...

Vanessa Kaylor: My favorite album of all time is Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday. LSTB was released in 1956. It was her last record with Clef Records who were later absorbed by Verve Records.

Although he wrote the music for one of Billie Holiday’s most renowned songs, “Lady Sings the Blues,” the work of pianist Herbie Nichols (1919-1963) is unduly obscure. He recorded only sporadically, ...

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Billie Holiday is widely considered jazz’s pre-eminent singer. Frank Sinatra once said that “with few exceptions, every major pop singer in the U.S. during her generation has been touched in some way ...

Jay Weston, who produced the Diana Ross-starring Lady Sings the Blues and Billy Wilder’s final feature, Buddy Buddy, has died. He was 93. Weston died Tuesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture & ...

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