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She traveled with the band for a while and hit it off. People were beginning to learn about a great singer who had a fresh new style that was a combination of Louis Armstrong's swinging and Bessie Smith's sound. Over the next seven years she would go on to record some of the greatest songs of her career...
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Lady Day was with Count Basie's Orchestra during much of 1937 but, she was soon kicked out by Count Basie for trying to be too "independent and temperamental." Later Lester Young and Buck Clayton began recording with Holiday and the music that the three of them made was timeless. She worked with Artie Shaw's Orchestra for a time in 1938 but still some problems existed, only one song was recorded and she had to deal with racism, not only during a Southern tour but in New York too...
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