Recently, whilst searching for clips of pianist Jimmy Rowles on Youtube I came across the album "Songs and Conversations" by Billie Holiday. Sometime in 1955 Billie Holiday rehearsed some songs with Rowles and bass player Artie Shapiro in Shapiro's living room for an upcoming show. The rehearsal was recorded and the tape was left running as the musicians chatted about the arrangements and told stories, swapped anecdotes etc. The tapes were eventually released in 1973 as the a