{"id":224140,"date":"2026-05-08T01:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224140\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:14:21","slug":"100-years-of-jazz-at-carnegie-hall-billie-holiday-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224140\/","title":{"rendered":"100 YEARS OF JAZZ AT CARNEGIE HALL: BILLIE HOLIDAY-1956"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billie Holiday made her third appearance at Carnegie Hall on November 10 , 1956. The presentation was a 2-hour concert version of her autobiography,\u00a0Lady Sings The Blues<\/a> and featured narrator Gilbert Millstein with an all-star cast of musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton. The Chico Hamilton Quintet was the opening act.<\/p>\n

Ms. Holiday first appeared in The Hall, briefly in April 1944. She was 29 years old, and one of many musicians gathered in a tribute to Fats Waller, who died a few months before. She returned on March 27, 1948 as a glamorous marquee artist, at the peak of her popularity and influence.<\/p>\n

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Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall, 1948<\/p>\n

Ms. Holiday sang 32 songs for the sell-out audience, with more than 2,700 tickets sold in advance, a record for Carnegie Hall ticket sales at the time. <\/p>\n

Holiday\u2019s final performance in the Hall took place one year later in November of 1957, with the concert effectively becoming a sequel to the 1956 concert and a farewell to the venue she loved most, cementing her lofty legacy in the annals of jazz history.<\/p>\n

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The Essential Billie Holiday; Live at Carnegie Hall 1956 recording was released posthumously, in 1961. For more on the remarkable story behind the concert and recording visit this page<\/a> on the Carnegie Hall website. To hear excerpts from the recording click the \u201cListen\u201d button.<\/p>\n

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