Donald Harrison, Jr. and the New Orleans Music Interns
Donald Harrison, Jr. (far left) and the New Orleans Music Interns (photo: Joel A. Siegel)
Poster for the 1950 short film “Sugar Chile” Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet, the only film to feature Holiday and Basie together. (Singer/pianist Frank “Sugar Chile” Robinson was a child prodigy who met with considerable success in the late 1940s and early ’50s, then quit playing music professionally for decades; now 83, he was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2016.)