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Lady Sings the Blues
Billie Holiday
Pan Am Records
8436563182716
LPS 158886
9152315
JAZZ
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The recordings included on the classic album Lady Sings the Blues come from two different studio dates: a complete session recorded in 1956, and four tunes from a 1954 date. Five additional tracks were also recorded at the latter session. Three of them later surfaced on compilation LPs, and have been added here following the 12 tracks from the original album. (The other two tunes –which, according to discographies, consist of new versions of Billie’s classics “I Cried For You” and “What a Little Moonlight Can Do” – were never issued and are now considered lost.) With the addition of these three bonus tracks, this release contains all known surviving tracks from the second session. The emphasis on both sessions is placed on Billie’s singing. Although important musicians are present on both dates (Charlie Shavers, Tony Scott, Paul Quinichette andWynton Kelly, on the 1956 session, and Harry “Sweets” Edison, Willie Smith and Barney Kessel, on the 1954 date), little room is left for any instrumental improvisation. Billie’s voice is clearly the showcased instrument here, which as Miles Davis stated, sounded “like a horn, anyway”.
FORMAT | LP |
DISCS NUMBERS | 1 |
RECORDED | 0 |
LABEL CODE | 9152315 |
STYLE | JAZZ |