Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin - Purple Color Vinyl Record 180g Import

Description: Discover new, exclusive liner notes from acclaimed jazz writer Brian Morton and Paris' renowned jazz magazine, specially prepared for this product. • INCLUDES 2 BONUS TRACKS Revisionists and counter-revisionists argue back and forth, but it remains unmistakable that Billie Holiday's inimitable way with a heartache song only deepened as her own life unravelled. A compilation of her dozen years recordingfor Verve was put out under the title Lady in Autumn, which is a marketing cliché, but also a perfect description, for these are autumnal performances: ripe with experience, laden with anticipations of the chill of death, hanging on precariously but ready to fall."PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ "Every track is performed in an inimitable and extraordinary way, and the tragic mood never falls into the pathetic. Even today Billie continues to influence the style of innumerable singers and instrumentalists, both male and female. What's the secret? Just the fact that Billie Holiday simply invented a way of singing: a language."- JAZZ MAGAZINE PERSONNEL: BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals RAY ELLIS and His Orchestra New York, February 18-20, 1958. (*) BONUS TRACKS (A7 & B7): BILLIE HOLIDAY (vc) with Harry "Sweets" Edison , Joe Wilder (tp), Billy Byers (tb), Al Cohn (ts), Danny Bank (bs), Hank Jones (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d), Ray Ellis (arr, cond). New York, March 11, 1959. TRACKS: SIDE A: 01. I'M A FOOL TO WANT YOU 02. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE 03. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS 04. I GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU VERY WELL 05. FOR ALL WE KNOW 06. VIOLETS FOR YOUR FURS 07. ALL OF YOU (*) SIDE B: 01. YOU'VE CHANGED 02. IT'S EASY TO REMEMBER 03. BUT BEAUTIFUL 04. GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY 05. I'LL BE AROUND 06. THE END OF A LOVE AFFAIR 07. THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE (*)

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