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The men around Billie
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Jazz
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Besides Billie Holiday I like and enjoy the music of quite a lot of other jazz musicians from the past and the present.

First of all, there are those people who accompanied Billie in the course of her career.
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On many of the early (Columbia) recordings Billie sings with pianist Teddy Wilson.
Actually, most of her 1935 recordings were with "Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra".
Listen to
"I Wished on the Moon" or "A Sunbonnet Blue" and you will know ...
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Ben Webster (ts) and Buck Clayton (tp) were among Billie's sidesmen from early on, too. Billie had had an affair with Ben in 1935 and she admired Buck "as a man".
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Roy Eldridge (tp) and Barney Kessel (g) were with Billie on recordings from the 1930s and the 1950s respectively.
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