Billie Holiday owned several dogs throughout her life, but by all accounts, a boxer named Mister was her favorite.
Mister stuck by Holiday's side through tumultuous times in the 1940s. The singer was one of the highest-paid Black performers in America, but she was also facing addiction, abusive relationships, and a year-long stint in prison.
Holiday took Mister on tours, brought him to night clubs in Harlem, fed him steaks, knit him sweaters, and reportedly even cloaked him in a mink coat from time to time.
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of drummer Jack DeJohnette.
A versatile powerhouse behind the kit, Jack DeJohnette stands as one of jazz’s most adventurous and wide-ranging drummers—equally at home in free jazz, fusion, and R&B.
Throughout his career, DeJohnette has worked with a remarkable spectrum of artists—from Miles Davis and Charles Lloyd to Bill Evans, Sun Ra, Pat Metheny, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, John Coltrane, and Freddie Hubbard, among countless others. He released his debut as a leader in 1968, The DeJohnette Complex, and has since recorded around 50 albums as a bandleader or co-leader, often returning to the piano along the way.
His long association with ECM Records, beginning in 1973, produced some of his most celebrated work, and over the decades he has earned multiple Grammy Awards, cementing his legacy as a boundary-defying innovator whose rhythmic imagination continues to shape modern jazz.
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