Andra Day –
United States vs Billie Holiday (Warner Bros): “Cassandra Monique Batie (born December 30, 1984), known professionally as Andra Day, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. In 2015, she released her debut album, Cheers to the Fall. At the 2016 Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album and the single, “Rise Up”, was nominated for Best R&B Performance. To promote “Rise Up”, she performed the song on The View, the performance earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. Day also appeared alongside Stevie Wonder, who is partially credited for her discovery, in an ad for Apple TV in late 2015. In 2021, she portrayed Billie Holiday in the biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Her stage name was inspired by Holiday, whose nickname was “Lady Day”. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andra Day) Her
Smalls Jazz Club, Emblem of Pandemic Perseverance, Shifts Gears Yet Again
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Yoshi Kato February 11, 2021Updated: February 15, 2021, 8:20 am
Piedmont Piano Co. in Oakland hosts a twice-weekly concert program that launched in the midst of the pandemic. Photo: Piedmont Piano Co.
On the first Thursday of January, viewers from as far away as Brazil, Norway and the Netherlands streamed a live jazz concert from Uptown Oakland. Swedish vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Gunhild Carling, a current South Bay resident, was leading her sextet on the Piedmont Piano Co. bandstand as audience members online commented in the chat box.
Toward the end of an energetic performance, Carling reminded the virtual audience, “If you like this music, don’t forget to tip the band. And we appreciate gifts, love letters … with lipstick traces,” she joked, referencing the jazz standard “These Foolish Things.”