Billie Holiday

Lady in Satin (81172)

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Lady in Satin

Billie Holiday

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SAR 150179

81172

JAZZ

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Lady in Satin

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CD 9,95 €

INCLUDES 8 BONUS TRACKS

Most jazz fans now consider "Lady in Satin" to be Holiday’s last great effort, and she also loved the album herself. It is true that her voice, after a life of self-abuse, wasn’t the same as on her earliest 1930s recordings. Her expressiveness, however, would remain with her tothe end, and this album seems to showcase her baring her soul like never before. Despite the later acceptance of the album, the critics at the time (obviously unaware of the fact that the singer had little more than a year more to live) weren’t so generous.

Whatever its merits and flaws, there is no doubt that "Lady in Satin" is one of Billie Holiday’s most poignant recordings ever, and a true jazz classic.

As a bonus to this album, five ballads from a 1955 session with Harry Edison and Benny Carter recorded for Norman Granz, as well as the rare 1957 studio version of “Fine and Mellow” with Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster (recorded at a rehearsal for a TV show titled "The Sound of Jazz", which featured Billie on a performance of the same title), and Holiday’s only two tracks from the 1958 Jazz at the Plaza concert (the rest featured Duke Ellington and His Orchestra and the Miles Davis Sextet with Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane and Bill Evans).

BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals
Ray Ellis and His Orchestra
New York, February 18-20, 1958.

BONUS TRACKS:

13-17: BILLIE HOLIDAY (vcl), Harry “Sweets” Edison (tp), Benny Carter (as),
Jimmy Rowles (p), John Simmons (b), Larry Bunker (d).
Los Angeles, August 23 & 25, 1955.

18: THE SOUND OF JAZZ (studio recording):
BILLIE HOLIDAY (vcl), Doc Cheatham (tp), Vic Dickenson (tb),
Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins (ts), Mal Waldron (p),
Danny Barker (g), Jim Atlas (b), Jo Jones (d).
New York, December 5, 1957.

19-20: JAZZ AT THE PLAZA (live):
BILLIE HOLIDAY (vcl), Buck Clayton (tp), Mal Waldron (p), unknown bass and drums.
Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, September 9, 1958.

TRACKS:

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 YOU’VE CHANGED
08 IT’S EASY TO REMEMBER
09 BUT BEAUTIFUL
10 GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY
11 I’LL BE AROUND
12 THE END OF A LOVE AFFAIR
13 PRELUDE TO A KISS
14 A GHOST OF A CHANCE
15 GONE WITH THE WIND
16 COME RAIN OR COME SHINE
17 WHAT’S NEW?
18 FINE AND MELLOW
19 WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE
20 DON’ T EXPLAIN

TOTAL TIME: 78:17