Billie Holiday - 'Fine and Mellow' (The Sound of Jazz, CBS 1957)

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Ben Webster tenor saxophone

Lester Young tenor saxophone

Vic Dickenson trombone

Gerry Mulligan baritone saxophone

Coleman Hawkins tenor saxophone

Roy Eldridge trumpet

Doc Cheatham trumpet

Danny Barker guitar

Milt Hinton double bass

Mal Waldron piano

Osie Johnson drums

During the performance of Fine and Mellow, Webster played the first solo.

The show's performance of Fine and Mellow reunited Billie Holiday with her estranged long-time friend Lester Young for the final time.

The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time, live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater at 851 Ninth Avenue in New York City.

The Sound of Jazz is a 1957 edition of the CBS television series Seven Lively Arts, and was one of the first major programmes featuring jazz to air on American network television.

Within two years, both Young and Holiday had died.

The Sound of Jazz - Wikipedia

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