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The 1957 CBS-TV program “The Sound of Jazz” featured a group of true giants. Ben Webster played the first solo on "Fine and Mellow."
Billie Holiday : Fine and mellow (1957) - YouTube

in this video: Billie Holiday singing with Ben Webster -- tenor saxophone, Lester Young -- tenor saxophone, Vic Dickenson -- trombone, Gerry Mulligan -- bari...

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"Then", writer Nat Hentoff remembered: “Lester got up, and he played the purest blues I have ever heard, and he and Holiday were looking at each other, their eyes were sort of interlocked, and she was sort of nodding and half–smiling.
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“It was as if they were both remembering what had been—whatever that was. And in the control room we were all crying. When the show was over, they went their separate ways.” Within two years, both Young and Holiday had died.
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Billie Holiday: vocals
Ben Webster: tenor sax
Lester Young: tenor sax
Coleman Hawkins: tenor sax
Gerry Mulligan: baritone sax
Roy Eldridge: trumpet
Doc Cheatham: trumpet
Vic Dickenson: trombone
Danny Barker: guitar
Milt Hinton: double bass
Mal Waldron: piano
Osie Johnson: drums
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