Various Artists

This extraordinary two-volume DVD collection features the most important and influential jazz vocalists in the history of the idiom, including such legendary artists as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Dinah Washington, Lena Horne and Nina Simone, among others. These rare DVD recordings showcase the great ladies of jazz at the height of their considerable talents, performing the finest works from their stellar repertoire. Whether it be the ebullient joy of Ella Fitzgerald, the visceral power of Billie Holiday, the vocal pyrotechnics of Sarah Vaughan or the tempered sensuality of Carmen McRae, these DVDs uncover the individual brilliance, and unique style of each of the great divas of jazz without any speakers or introducers...Nothing but music!

BILLIE HOLIDAY
01. The Blues Are Brewin'
02. Easy To Remember
03. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
04. Foolin' Myself
05. Fine And Mellow
06. Strange Fruit
07. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
08. (I Love You) Porgy

NINA SIMONE
09. I'll Look Around
10. Improvisation
11. When I was In My Prime
12. Zungo
13. For All We Know
14. There Is A Book Of Love

ETHEL WATERS
15. Quicksand

ANITA O'DAY
16. Thanks For The Boogie Ride
17. Let Me Off Uptown

DINAH WASHINGTON
18. Only A Moment Ago
19. Such A Night
20. I Don't Hurt Anymore
21. My Lean Baby
22. Lover Come Back To Me
23. Send Me To 'lectric Chair

Total time: 61 min. approx.