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	Basin Street Records :: Irvin Mayfield Trumpeter Keyboardist
		Strange Fruit is a ninety minute, nine-movement triad chronicling the lives of an interracial couple in the 1920s and the subsequent social and political consequences they endure after their affair is discovered.
		Strange Fruit was inspired by the Without Sanctuary exhibit that chronicles the history of lynching in the United States.
		Mayfield’s various recordings with Los Hombres Calientes and with the Irvin Mayfield Quintet have made him one of the most recorded young jazz artists of his generation.
	www.basinstreetrecords.com /artists/irvin-mayfield.html (893 words)

	Strange Fruit Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Strange Fruit Records is an independent record label in the United Kingdom.
		The label, established by John Peel in the 1990s, is the primary distributor of BBC concert recordings, including Peel Sessions albums.
		Strange Fruit also licenses albums released on other labels, such as Latent Records in Canada, for release in the UK, and re-releases older out-of-print albums by British classic rock artists such as Small Faces, Mott the Hoople, Humble Pie and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strange_Fruit_Records (170 words)

	Strange Fruit
		The applause grew louder and a bit less tentative as "Strange Fruit" became a nightly ritual for Holiday, then one of her most successful records, then one of her signature songs, at least in those places where it was safe to perform.
		But whether they heard her on record or on the radio (where it was played occasionally and hesitantly by fl or "nigger-loving" white disc jockeys) or got to see it performed by Holiday or someone else, those who've encountered "Strange Fruit" have found the song engraved into their consciousness.
		After its initial run of popularity, "Strange Fruit" fell into disuse for many years—the victim of the conservatism of one era, the idealism and hopefulness of another, and the disillusionment of a third.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/m/margolick-fruit.html (1729 words)

	Sold on Song - Song Library - Strange Fruit
		"Strange Fruit" was a huge departure from the love songs Holiday normally sang, it was also the first time a fl artist had dared to sing such controversial lyrics.
		The record was widely banned, even by the BBC, but as Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun claimed it was tantamount to "a declaration of warthe beginning of the Civil Rights movement".
		Holiday was very territorial about "Strange Fruit" and when fl folk artist Josh White recorded another version a few years later she allegedly threatened him not to sing it.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/indepth/strangefruit.shtml (613 words)

	Strange Fruit \| PopMatters Television Review
		Joel Katz's Strange Fruit is a meditation on the song of the same name that chillingly relates the story of a lynching.
		Written by a Jewish American from the Bronx and famously recorded in 1939 by Billie Holiday, the song is presented in the film as the root of the union between American activism and arts.
		Holiday agreed to record the song, but was turned down by several major labels, until she went to Commodore Records.
	www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/s/strange-fruit.shtml (1012 words)

	Legitimate BBC recordings : please help
		Strange Fruit, the official outlet for BBC recordings, are currently in discussion with Gary Brooker with a view to releasing Procol Harum's BBC Live In Concert performance recorded at the Golders Green Hippodrome on 22 March 1974.
		Remember also that the BBC broadcast two songs from Golders Green (Beyond the Pale and Grand Hotel) that are not on the non-legit version that fans are familiar with, and for all we know there may be more still on tape that never graced the airwaves.
		Strange Fruit is well-known as an artist-friendly label and we feel that fans should be thoroughly heartened by this development.
	www.procolharum.com /99/bbc_strange1.htm (300 words)

	An anthem for the struggle against racism
		Strange Fruit, a 2001 documentary by Joel Katz now showing at New York’s Film Forum, explores the history of the song and the political moment that gave birth to it.
		Record companies didn’t want to record "Strange Fruit," and when Columbia Records finally did, radio stations banned it.
		Abel Meeropol--a Bronx school teacher and Communist Party activist--wrote "Strange Fruit." He and his wife, Anne, are also known for adopting the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who, as part of the McCarthyite witch-hunts, were executed as "atomic spies" in 1953.
	www.socialistworker.org /2002-2/433/433_13_StrangeFruit.shtml (375 words)

	Strange Fruit Project :: The Healing :: Om Records
		Strange Fruit Project is a group facing great expectations, and these high hopes come from a myriad of sources.
		Strange Fruit Project lacks the verbal edge that is exuded from LB's lyrics, along with the obvious fact that 9th Wonder isn't their in-house producer.
		It's a shame that this record hasn't reached the masses, because The Healing is not only an enjoyable trip outside of the world but is also a piece of armor meant to help people cope with our realities.
	www.rapreviews.com /archive/2006_11_thehealing.html (959 words)

	'Strange Fruit' -- music that fueled a movement
		Few songs carry as devastating an emotional punch as "Strange Fruit." Scornful, haunting, the song was an anti-lynching anthem that Billie Holiday recorded in the late 1930s, claimed as her own and continued to sing until her death in 1959.
		Katz weaves a wealth of interesting material into "Strange Fruit" and balances his perspective between the progressive Jewish community that Meeropol was part of, a political climate in which Southern legislators blocked efforts to pass a federal anti-lynching bill, and the fl experience that Meeropol captured so achingly in his song.
		The strongest material in the film are the photographs of lynchings and the testimony of Griffin and Vivian, who describe the carnival-like atmosphere that attended public lynchings, and the ways in which lynchings served to tame a fl community that was seen as having grown too strong and uncontrollable in the late 19th century.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/08/DD218377.DTL (667 words)

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		The applause grew louder and less tentative as "Strange Fruit" became a nightly ritual for Holiday, then one of her signature songs, at least where it could be safely performed.
		Apart from "Strange Fruit," he is best known for writing the lyrics of "The House I Live In," a paean to tolerance sung by Frank Sinatra in an Oscar-winning short subject in 1945.
		Wilson, Down Beat's "Female Vocalist of the Year" two years ago, said that when she first heard "Strange Fruit," in her native Jackson, Mississippi, in the late 1970s, it "made my skin crawl." Many years had to pass before she felt she had the wisdom, the experience, and the courage to perform it.
	www.ladyday.net /stuf/vfsept98.html (4562 words)

	Eye Weekly - Old School - 1 - 12.04.97
		I'd like to think there are still some people who find Billie Holiday's recording of "Strange Fruit" as brutal and affecting as when she recorded it 58 years ago.
		Holiday was quickly approached by Milt Gabler, owner of 42nd Street's Commodore record store, who offered to negotiate with Columbia on her behalf to record the song for his own fledgling label.
		The first non-commercial jazz labels were devoted to reissuing the records of the '20s and, when they ran out, getting the musicians on those records back into the studio to re-create that sound.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.04.97/music/oldschool.html (828 words)

	THE STRANGE FRUIT FESTIVAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		One of the most remarkable aspects of being part of Strange Fruit is that every so often you get to meet your musical heroes, and, on rare occasions, actually organise shows for them.
		For the final night of the Strange Fruit Festival on Saturday 16 November we're very proud to present one of the bands that first made many of us fall in love with independent music for the first time.
		Records, Nottingham's Airport Girl take the melody and wit of Jonathan Richman to produce some finely-crafted indie guitar songs.
	www.strange-fruit.co.uk /FESTIVAL4.htm (658 words)

	StrangeFruitProject
		Each member of Strange Fruit Project sings, raps and is influenced by the constant journey of everyday life.
		This is the diamond in the rough of this record, focusing on the search and understanding of what life represents, in your own way, at your own pace.
		Be on the lookout for Strange Fruit Project’s forthcoming album, The Healing, scheduled for release during the summer of 2006.
	www.superbro.com /StrangeFruitProject.htm (365 words)

	CD Review of Irvin Mayfield - Strange Fruit on Basin Street Records @ jazzreview.com
		The result is Strange Fruit a nine-movement epic in jazz.
		The suite's title Strange Fruit is inspired by Billie Holiday's classic song and the listener quickly realizes that a lynching is imminent.
		Strange Fruit is a serious work, musically wonderful, but intense in its sobering portrayal of history.
	www.jazzreview.com /cd/review-16759.html (303 words)

	Strange Fruit Project - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		So they recorded another track and one became 3 and 3 became 6 and before you knew it, S1 had put together an entire album and they collectively decided to call this project the Strange Fruit Project.
		More fl men were lynched in Waco in the early 1900's than anywhere in the U.S. Therefore the music and style of SFP focuses on and targets everyday people's struggles, trials and life experiences.
		There's a message and a story in every verse, not meant to be preachy or hypocritical but challenging those who cannot see, to step outside their comfort zone and experience life musical through the eyes of Strange Fruit Project.
	music.download.com /strangefruitproject/3600-8520_32-100939786.html (705 words)

	Rap Music \| KING5.com \| News for Seattle, Washington
		Strange Fruit Project stands ready to shake the rap scene
		The Strange Fruit Project has been causing tremors for several years in the rap underground, from Texas to California to Japan.
		The right scenario for a national break unfolded with San Francisco's Om Records, one of the stronger urban boutique labels that has had success with house, downtempo and indie hip-hop.
	www.king5.com /sharedcontent/features/rap2/072906ccdrMUSICstrangefruit.5144dd0.html (607 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Strange Fruit'
		The film is peopled with eloquent scholars, activists, artists and the family and friends of the late Abel Meeropol, the man who wrote "Strange Fruit" under the pseudonym Lewis Allan.
		Strange Fruit flails a bit when it tries to justify Billie Holiday's connection to the song, as if the fact that Holiday would have a legitimate emotional connection to the subject of lynching was somehow under dispute.
		Coloring the Silver Screen: Strange Fruit, African Americans on the Film Frontier and Jungle Jazz: Public Enemy #1 play on Thursday, June 5, at 7pm at the Rio Theatre as part of the Santa Cruz Film Festival.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/05.28.03/strange-0322.html (733 words)

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		In the case of the song "Strange Fruit," that one guy seems an unusual source.
		That he was a quiet liberal is apparent from a brief perusal of the lyrics of the first stanza: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit/ Blood on the leaves and blood at the root./ Black body swinging in the Southern breeze/ Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees."
		I am listening to my old and scratched recordings of Billie as I write this and I have to say: Whether or not she understood the song when she first performed it, she had it down by the time she recorded it.
	www.smallbytes.net /~bobkat/strangefruit.html (1005 words)

	Om Records : Galleries
		Om Records "Plastic People" London Residency Kickoff Party
		Strange Fruit Project, Zeph and Azeem, Lifesavas and Blackalicious
		Live at Om: Summer Sessions, September 7th @ Temple
	www.om-records.com /galleries (26 words)

	CD Baby: THE STRANGE FRUIT PROJECT: Soul Travelin'
		Strange fruit is exactly what it is, but the vine is fine and the nectar is exploding with flavor.
		Strange, it seems like groups like this one, were in abundance at one time.
		Strange Fruit Project's second album is, to me, hip hop in it's purest sense.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/strangefruit2 (3604 words)

	A song that changed the world
		Listening to a recording of Billie Holiday sing "Strange Fruit" is an electrifying experience.
		This barbarism inspired Meeropol to pen "Strange Fruit." Meeropol wrote the lyrics in 1937 and published them in his union newsletter after seeing pictures of the lynching of two young Black men from Marion, Ind. He later composed the music, and the song became a standard at left-wing events.
		Margolick mentions in passing that "Strange Fruit" was sung at political events--including a 1939 fundraiser for antifascists during the Spanish Civil War and a 1943 benefit for Ben Davis Jr., a Black Communist Party member elected to the New York City Council.
	www.socialistworker.org /2001/369/369_11_StrangeFruit.shtml (552 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Strange Fruit: Anthem of the Anti-Lynching Movement
		Strange Fruit, documentary that explores the history and legacy of the song, directed and produced by Joel Katz.
		But now, we turn to another excerpt of another documentary about the famous anti-lynching song, "Strange Fruit," which explores the history and legacy of the song that was adopted as the anthem for the anti-lynching movement.
		When she first encountered "Strange Fruit" she was in her very early twenties.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/06/14/1350258 (837 words)

	Strange Fruit
		It is called Strange Fruit and it will, even after the tenth hearing, make you blink and hold to your chair.
		In interviews, Holiday said that whenever she performed Strange Fruit in the South there was trouble.
		Claims that the song was banned from the radio are equally hard to document, but not hard to believe; radio stations played few records then, and rarely anything controversial.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACstrangefruit.htm (1388 words)

	Columbia Records - NEWS
		Columbia Records is set to release Gardenias For Lady Day -- the first new album in more than three years from James Carter and the saxophonist's first recording since signing with the label -- on Tuesday, November 11.
		His debut recording, JC On The Set, released in Japan when Carter was a mere 23 years old, heralded the arrival of a significant and powerful new musical force in jazz.
		Recorded at the same session as his debut, Carter's next release, Jurassic Classics (1994), found him entering the Top Jazz Albums chart for the first time.
	www.columbiarecords.com /news/pressreleases/08252003.html (658 words)

	CD Baby: STRANGE FRUIT: From Divine
		i cant front strange fruit, little brother, slum village and thier seperate affilitates got me open and i'm hard on musiq and lyrics..
		There's nothing strange about Strange Fruit, only positive lyrics and eclectic musical proficiency are represented on the "From Divine" album.
		Their jazzy and soulfully melodic brand of expression will give you a much needed break from the mental and visual walls of social imprisonment that most popular music places us in today, a la B.E.T. The very presence of Strange Fruit proves that there is much more to life than 106 and Park.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/strangefruit (721 words)

	Lil' Chief Records Presents The Brunettes
		Sounding a little like a fusion of The Aislers Set and The Postal Service, The Brunettes are one of those bands who conjure up hazy memories of summertime, who employ instruments by the dozen to create a joyous, wondrous, rich sound.
		They aren’t afraid to experiment, but the fruits of every experiment are things of pure beauty.
		It manages to create a carefree, engaging feel that I haven’t heard for ages, and it’s one of my favourite records of the year so far.
	www.lilchiefrecords.com /brunettes/article_strangefruit.html (412 words)

	CD Baby: THE STRANGE FRUIT PROJECT: From Divine SE
		Now comes the re-release of the classic Strange Fruit Project debut album From Divine in a special release format...........
		this soulrific album of the strange fruit is one of the hottest albums youll own...
		the word play the rhymes themselves and the fruits of the spirit is so evident on it i could fall asleep with this album and just be in strait bliss..
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/strangefruit4 (1295 words)

	strangefruit: I left my urge in the icebox.
		I expect the same effect their records give, but the band is of the variety which diverges live shows from its records.
		Perhaps hearing his tattered and tormented vocals on recording for so long added to the incredulity, but it was simply difficult to believe the voice came from him.
		In comparing themes from American Beauty, Moulin Rouge, and Pleasantville, she only cheapens any sort of praise she meant to heap upon the record itself, as, admittedly, the examples are superficial and try to place heavy meaning on rather light, glossy films.
	strangefruit.pitas.com /09_2002.html (3253 words)

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