Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues
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Although Billie Holiday's repertoire covered barely more than a dozen pure blues numbers during the course of her long career from 1933 to 1959, music critics always referred to her as the "Lady [who] sings the blues." And that hasn't changed to this day.
Her interpretations were a benchmark against which all aspiring singers were measured. Highly expressive, almost visual ballads went hand in hand with Billie Holiday's life and voice - and only she could sing them! Her voice was always embedded in the sound carpet produced by her accompanying musicians: Tony Scott and Paul Quinichette are two names who made their mark on her music in the mid-fifties and the rhythm group of Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell and Chico Hamilton is really first class. The trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison, a longtime friend from the Count Basie Band, sensitively accompanies the singer's mature voice.
Heavyweight vinyl produced by Verve Records in 2025.
TRACKLISTING:
- Lady Sings the Blues
- Trav'lin' Light
- I Must Have That Man
- Some Other Spring
- Strange Fruit
- No Good Man
- God Bless the Child
- Good Morning Heartache
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Too Marvelous for Words
- Willow Weep for Me
- I Thought About You