Billie Holiday - 1937-1958 Essential Works

Genre: SOUL JAZZ / VOCAL JAZZ / COOL JAZZ 

Format: 2LP Edition
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2LP Edition
Release Date:
10/8/2021
Label: Masters Of Jazz

Description

Lady Day was born under the name of Eleanora Fagan. How much suffering does it take to express love, pain, despair, or even life itself? Few singers have communicated emotions like Billie Holiday. Her father, a jazz guitarist, wouldn’t recognise her and so refused to give his daughter his name. He was more interested in nightlife than in family life. Billie’s mother was a cleaner, cook and occasional prostitute who abandoned her daughter to the care of her aunts or a reformatory. Billie had a life of violence that commonly included rape and physical abuse of all kinds. In between prostitution, prison and a few gigs in sordid dives where a customer’s generosity was her only means of support, Billie managed to record for Columbia when she was only nineteen. It was the beginning of a recognition that never waned over the years. Few voices of the past eight decades were as capable of moving the hearts of those who loved female singers in the same way as Billie Holiday.

Tracklisting

A1 All Of Me
A2 When You're Smiling
A3 If Dreams Come True
A4 The Man I Love
A5 Getting Some Fun Out Of Life
A6 Time On My Hands
A7 The Very Thought Of You
B1 My Man
B2 Jim
B3 Solitude
B4 Georgia On My Mind
B5 Lover Man
B6 Am I Blue?
B7 I'll Be Seeing You
C1 Now Or Never
C2 On The Sunny Side Of The Street
C3 Blue Moon
C4 Remember
C5 Sugar
C6 Them There Eyes
C7 Lover Come Back To Me
D1 Love Me Or Leave Me
D2 Willow Weep For Me
D2 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
D4 Cheek To Cheek
D5 All Or Nothing At All
D6 I'm A Fool To Want You 

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