Jazz

Billie Holiday & Lester Young - Complete Recordings [2005]

2010-04-02T18:30:50Z

Billie Holiday & Lester Young - Complete Recordings [2005]

CD1
1. He Ain''t Got Rhythm
2. This Year''s Kisses
3. Why Was I Born?
4. I Must Have That Man!
5. Sun Showers
6. Yours and Mine
7. Mean to Me
8. Foolin'' Myself
9. Easy Living
10. I''ll Never Be the Same
11. Me, Myself and I
12. Sailboat in the Moonlight
13. Born to Love
14. Without Your Love
15. Getting Some Fun Out of Life
16. Who Wants Love?
17. Trav''lin'' All Alone
18. He''s Funny That Way
19. My First Impression of You
20. When You''re Smiling
21. I Can''t Get Started

CD 2
1. I Can''t Believe That You''re in Love With Me
2. If Dreams Come True
3. Now They Call It Swing
4. Back in Your Own Backyard
5. When a Woman Loves a Man
6. Very Thought of You
7. I Can''t Get Started
8. I''ve Got a Date With a Dream
9. You Can''t Be Mine (And Someone Else''s Too)
10. Everybody''s Laughing
11. Here It Is Tomorrow Again
12. Say It With a Kiss
13. Man I Love
14. You''re Just a No Account
15. You''re a Lucky Guy
16. I''m Pulling Through
17. Laughing at Life
18. Time on My Hands
19. Let''s Do It (Let''s Fall in Love)
20. All of Me Listen
21. Man I Love

Billie Holiday - Composer, Vocals
Georgie Auld - Sax (Alto)
Buster Bailey - Clarinet
Eddie Barefield 	- Sax (Alto)
Charlie Barnet - Sax (Soprano)
Count Basie - Piano
Artie Bernstein 	- Bass
Bill Bowen - Sax (Alto)
Kenny Clarke - Drums
Buck Clayton - Trumpet
Cozy Cole - Drums
John Collins - Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
Shad Collins - Trumpet
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet
Joe Eldridge - Sax (Alto)
Roy Eldridge - Trumpet
Herschel Evans 	- Sax (Tenor)
Benny Goodman - Clarinet
Freddie Green - Guitar
Tiny Grimes - Guitar (Electric)
Joe Guy - Trumpet
Edmond Hall - Clarinet
Coleman Hawkins - Sax (Tenor)
J.C. Heard - Drums
Johnny Hodges 	- Sax (Alto)
Illinois Jacquet 	- Sax (Tenor)
Harry James - Trumpet
Leslie Johnakins - Sax (Alto)
Jo Jones - Drums
Ken Kersey - Piano
Ed Lewis - Trumpet
Al McKibbon - Bass
Benny Morton - Trombone
Hot Lips Page - Trumpet
Walter Page - Bass
Allan Reuss - Guitar
Curly Russell - Bass
Edgar Sampson - Sax (Alto)
Kermit Scott - Sax (Tenor)
Ted Sturgis - Bass
Joe Sullivan - Piano
Claude Thornhill - Piano
Earle Warren - Sax (Alto)
Jack Washington - Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
Lester Young - Clarinet, Sax (Tenor), Soloist

Billie Holiday often stated that she styled her vocal phrasing to echo the sound of a jazz horn, so it should be no surprise that she found the perfect duet partner in tenor sax player Lester Young. Lady Day and Pres (they bestowed the nicknames on each other) recorded some 60 sides together between 1937 and 1946, many if not all of which have to be considered classics. This three-disc set collects everything the pair did, including alternate takes, and the best tracks are truly revelatory. Given the obvious musical connection on display in these sides, it is telling that both Holiday and Young died only four months apart in 1959. Apparently the world just couldn't handle one without the other. ---Steve Leggett, Rovi

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Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues (1956)

2011-02-28T09:30:48Z

Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues (1956)


1. Say It Isn't So	 3:01
2. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm	3:55
3. I Wished On The Moon	6:48
4. Always	3:56
5. Everything Happens To Me	6:20	
6. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me	4:59
7. Ain't Misbehavin'	4:38
8. Trav'lin Light	3:07
9. I Must Have That Man!	3:04
10. Some Other Spring	3:36	
11. Lady Sings The Blues	3:43		play
12. Strange Fruit	3:01		play
13. God Bless The Child	3:57
14. Good Morning Heartache	3:29	
15. No Good Man	3:18
16. God Bless The Child	15:39

Personnel:
Billie Holiday – vocals
Aaron Bell - bass
Leonard Brown 	- drums
Kenny Burrell - guitar
Red Callender -	bass
Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
Chico Hamilton – drums
Wynton Kelly - piano
Barney Kessel  - guitar
Paul Quinichette - sax (tenor)
Anthony Sciacca - clarinet
Charlie Shavers - trumpet
Willie Smith - sax (alto)
Bobby Tucker – piano

Taken from a pair of sessions taped during 1955-1956, Lady Sings the Blues finds Holiday in top form and backed by the sympathetic likes of tenor saxophonist Paul Quinichette, trumpeters Charlie Shavers and Harry Edison, pianist Wynton Kelly, and guitarists Kenny Burrell and Barney Kessel. And while these autumnal sides bear some of the frayed vocal moments often heard on Holiday's '50s Verve sides, the majority here still ranks with her best material. This is especially true of the cuts from the June 1956 date, which produced unparalleled versions of "No Good Man," "Some Other Spring," and "Lady Sings the Blues." See why many fans prefer the "worn out" Holiday heard here to the more chipper singer featured on those classic Columbia records from the '30s. ---Stephen Cook, All Music Guide

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Billie Holiday - Rare Live Recordings 1934–1959 [2007]

2012-09-01T16:32:01Z

Billie Holiday - Rare Live Recordings 1934–1959 [2007]

CD1
1 Lost My Man Blues 	1:56
2 Theme : Moten Swing 	0:22 
3 Announcer Introduction 	0:27 	
4 Swing Brother Swing 	1:50 	
5 Announcer Introduction 	0:13 
6 They Can't Take That Away From Me 	3:24 
7 I Cried for You 	2:27 
8 Fine & Mellow 	3:31 
9 Announcer Introduction 	2:01 
10 I'll Get By 	1:44 	
11 Billie's Blues 	4:13 
12 Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear from Me 	3:32 
13 Danny Kaye Introduces Jerome Kern Who Presents Bille With Her Award 	1:19 
14 Cover the Waterfront 	3:09 
15 Fine & Mellow 	3:15 
16 All of Me 	2:03 
17 Endy Gets Caught Playing Piano 	2:04
18 Endy Goes to Storyville 	1:46
19 Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans 	1:53 
20 Satchmo Talks 	0:48
21 Farewell To Storyville 	4:11 
22 Farewell To Storyville (Studio Version) 	3:18 
23 The Blues Are Brewin' (Studio Version) 	3:47 
24 The Man I Love 	2:26 
25 Miss Brown To You 	2:01
26 Lover Man 	2:45 
27 I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone 	3:55
28 Billie's Blues 	3:37 
29 No More 	:05
30 Good Morning Heartache 	3:28

CD2
31 You're Driving Me Crazy 	1:34 
32 Maybe You'll Be There 	3:31 	
33 Introduction By Donald Wood 	0:35
34 You'd Better Go Now 	3:16 
35 Them There Eyes 	1:57 
36 Lady Day and Eddie Condon Speak 	0:39 
37 Keep on Rainin' 	2:46 
38 Lady Day and Eddie Condon Speak 	0:35 
39 Lover Man (Incomplete) 	2:17 	
40 I Cover the Waterfront 	3:03 
41 All of Me 	2:00 	
42 Naration / Early History 	0:29 
43 Fine & Mellow 2:58 	
44 Porgy 	2:58 	
45 Jam Session Introduction 	0:10
46 All of Me 	5:08 
47 You're My Thrill 	3:38 
48 Lover Come Back to Me 	2:22 
49 Ain't Nobody's Business 	2:21 	
50 You're Driving Me Crazy 	1:16 	
51 He's Funny That Way 	3:05 	
52 Miss Brown to You 	2:06 
53 Lover Man 	2:17 
54 Them There Eyes 	1:42 
55 My Man 	3:20 
56 I Cover the Waterfront 	3:25 
57 Crazy He Calls Me 	2:10 	
58 Detour Ahead 	2:24 
59 Strange Fruit 	3:19 
60 Ain't Nobody's Business 	2:57 	
61 All of Me 	1:42 	

CD3
62 Porgy 	3:06 	
63 My Man 	3:00 	
64 Tenderly 	3:03 
65 God Bless the Child 	2:34 
66 My Man 	3:01 	
67 The There Eyes 	1:57 
68 Lover Man 	2:37 
69 Willow Weep for Me 	3:33 
70 I Only Have Eyes for You 	1:52 
71 My Man 	2:54 		
72 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 	2:02 
73 Jon McCloughland Introduction 	1:18 
74 I Cover the Waterfront 	3:29 
75 Too Marvelous for Words 	2:17 
76 Porgy 3:08 	
77 Them There Eyes 	1:46
78 Willow Weep for Me 	3:53 
79 I Only Have Eyes for You 	2:46 
80 You Go to My Head 	3:30 	
81 Stormy Weather 	3:37 
82 Ghost of a Chance 	3:44 
83 Nice Work If You Can Get It 	2:38 
84 God Bless the Child 	2:53 
85 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 	1:56 
86 Don't Explain 	3:45 	
87  Porgy 	 2:32 	 

CD4
88  Fine and Mellow 	 8:48 
89  What a Little Moonlight Can Do 	 2:30  
90  Foolin' Myself 	 2:31  
91  Easy to Remember 	 3:31  
92  Moanin' Low 	 1:57 
93  Don't Explain 	 2:51 
94  When Your Lover Has Gone 	 2:02 
95  Mort Saul Introduction 	 0:24  
96  Ain't Nobodys Business 	 3:25 	 
97  Willow Weep for Me 	 2:55 
98  When Your Lover Has Gone 	 2:22  
99  God Bless the Child 	 3:22 
100   I Only Have Eyes for You 	 2:01  
101  Good Morning Heartache 	 3:52  
102  Them There Eyes 	 2:19 	 
103  Billie's Blues 	 3:32   	
104  What a Little Moonlight Can Do 	3:25
105 Travelin' Light 	3:22 	
106 Lover Come Back to Me 	2:06 

CD5
107 I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 	5:52 
108 Lady Day Speaks / Early History 	2:10
109 Just Friends 	1:02
110 Lady Day Speaks / The Number 13 	0:43 
111 Ghost of a Chance 	1:14 	
112 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - 1 	1:59 	
113 Every Thing Happens to Me 	3:31 
114 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - 2 	3:01 	
115 I Don't Want to Cry Anymore 	1:31 
116 Prelude to a Kiss 	2:48 
117 Jeepers Creepers 	1:42 
118 My Yiddishe Mama 	2:42 
119 Hey! Lady's Here 	3:18 
120 God Bless the Child 	3:05 	
121 Introduction 	0:42 
122 Nice Work If You Can Get It 	2:21 	
123 Willow Weep for Me 	2:30 
124 When Your Lover Has Gone 	1:59 
125 Billie's Blues 	3:11 
126 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 	2:12
127 God Bless the Child 	2:42 	
128 Now or Never 	2:19 
129 Producers Final Comment 	0:23

Personnel:
The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Count Basie, 
Artie Shaw, Stan Getz and more!

During the more than twenty-five years of her career, Holiday gave an unknown number of live performances on TV and radio and in clubs and concert halls, many of which were recorded both officially and unofficially by sound engineers, fellow musicians, and fans. Today ESP-Disk Records, which for many years has been assembling unofficial recordings of several artists from before 1972, has released one of the most comprehensive collections of live Billie Holiday recordings to date, some previously available but most not. These Holiday recordings, laid out in chronological order, not only demonstrate the arc of Holiday’s development as a vocalist, but give a rare behind-the-scenes look into how the singer approached her musicians and her audience. --- espdisk.com

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Billie Holiday - The right to sing the blues (2009)

2012-11-10T17:14:49Z

Billie Holiday - The right to sing the blues (2009)


01 - I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
02 - On The Sunny Side Of The Street
03 - All Of Me
04 - Love Me Or Leave Me
05 - Embraceable You
06 - I Love My Man
07 – Yesterday
08 - The Man I Love
09 - Body And Soul
10 - Georgia On My Mind
11 - God Bless The Child
12 - My Last Affair
13 - My Old Flame
14 - Lover Come Back To Me
15 - Fine And Mellow
16 - Strange Fruit

American jazz singer and songwriter, born 7 April 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and died 17 July 1959 in New York City, New York USA. Daughter of jazz guitarist Clarence Holiday. She made her debut around 1930' as a singer in some clubs in New York. John Hammond was the one who discovered her.

Made her first recordings together with Benny Goodman. From 1939 she started recording songs with the jazzmen from that time, and around 1940' she also started playing in some movies.

Inducted into Blues Hall of Fame in 1991. Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 (Early Influence). --- discogs.com

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Billie Holiday - Velvet Mood (1956)

2014-08-07T21:54:44Z

Billie Holiday - Velvet Mood (1956)


1 Prelude To a Kiss
2 When Your Lover Has Gone
3 Please Don't Talk About me When I'm Gone
4 Nice Work If You Can Get It
5 I Got a Right to Sing The Blues
6 What's New
7 I Hadn't Anyone till You
8 Everything I Have is Yours

Billie Holiday - vocals
Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet
Benny Carter - alto & tenor sax
Barney Kessel - guitar
Jimmy Rowles - piano
John Simmons - bass
Larry Bunker – drums

Billie Holiday was a true artist of her day and rose as a social phenomenon in the 1950s. Her soulful, unique singing voice and her ability to boldly turn any material that she confronted into her own music made her a superstar of her time. Today, Holiday is remembered for her masterpieces, creativity and vivacity, as many of Holiday's songs are as well known today as they were decades ago. Holiday's poignant voice is still considered to be one of the greatest jazz voices of all time.

Despite her lack of technical training, Holiday's unique diction, inimitable phrasing and acute dramatic intensity made her the outstanding jazz singer of her day. White gardenias, worn in her hair, became her trademark.

Long out-of-print, Billie Holiday's brilliant 1956 LP, Velvet Mood, released on Clef (soon-to-be Verve) Records, captures the 41-year-old Holiday backed by a sextet that featured Benny Carter on alto sax and Harry "Sweets" Edison on trumpet. Although hard living had already begun to take its toll on Holiday (who died just three years later), she was still a huge international star at this time, giving sold out concerts at Carnegie hall and touring Europe. 1956 also marked the year that her legendary biography, Lady Sings the Blues was released. --- elusivedisc.com

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Billie Holiday – Greatest Hits (1995)

2009-10-15T20:01:19Z

Billie Holiday – Greatest Hits (1995)


01. Billie Holiday-Same Old Story (3:11)
02. Billie Holiday-Nice Work If You Can Get It (3:09)
03. Billie Holiday-Night And Day (2:59)
04. Billie Holiday-Georgia On My Mind (3:18)
05. Billie Holiday-Body & Soul (2:59)
06. Billie Holiday-Am I Blue (2:50)
07. Billie Holiday-St. Louis Blues (2:53)
08. Billie Holiday-Easy To Love (3:12)
09. Billie Holiday-I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (Baby) (3:28)
10. Billie Holiday-All Of Me (3:01)
11. Billie Holiday-I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (2:56)
12. Billie Holiday-Let’t Call The Whole Thing Off (2:39)
13. Billie Holiday-The Man I Love (3:06)
14. Billie Holiday-Pennies From Heaven (3:17)
15. Billie Holiday-Can’t Help LovinDat Man (3:16)
16. Billie Holiday-They Can’t Take That Away From Me (3:03)
17. Billie Holiday-The Very Thought Of You (2:46)
18. Billie Holiday-Summertime (2:54)

Before Billie Holiday, pop and jazz vocalists were actors, emoting their songs from an imaginative perspective. Only the blues valued singers who sang as if they'd lived the trials and tribulations of their lyrics. Holiday changed all that, marshalling a memorable amalgam of infallible technique, indubitable spirit, and what would come to be called "soul". Born in Baltimore in the 1910s, she caught early breaks with Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Artie Shaw in the 30s, and by 1941, she'd arrived in full force with her own composition "God Bless the Child". Peppered by drug problems, jail time, failed marriages, and heart trouble, Holiday's personal life was anything but enviable, but the catalogue of music she left is essential in the whole, bolstered regularly by huge reissues, film portrayals like 1972's Lady Sings the Blues (starring Diana Ross as Holiday), and an enduring cult of personality. ---amazon.com

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Billie Holiday – Icon Love Songs (2011)

2011-09-16T18:36:30Z

Billie Holiday – Icon Love Songs (2011)


01 – Crazy He Calls Me
02 – Them There Eyes
03 – You’re My Thrill					play
04 – It Had To Be You
05 – Come Rain Or Come Shine
06 – Nice Work If You Can Get It
07 – Everything I Have Is Yours
08 – Cheek to Cheek
09 – I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
10 – Embraceable You					play
11 – Our Love Is Here To Stay
12 – All The Way

As part of the "Love Songs" subcategory of its discount-priced Icon series of compilations, Universal Music Group issues this Billie Holiday CD, collecting 12 tracks from the latter part of her career, originally recorded for Decca (Tracks 1-3, produced by Milt Gabler), Verve (Tracks 4-11, produced by Norman Granz), and MGM (Track 12, produced by Ray Ellis). The Gabler recordings find Holiday fronting a string orchestra; Granz has her record standards by the likes of Arlen, Berlin, and Gershwin before a small jazz ensemble; and Ellis returns her to a string arrangement for a reading of the Frank Sinatra hit "All the Way." Of course, Holiday's voice betrays some wear and tear at this point in her career, more so as the album goes on, but she makes up for it with her idiosyncratic phrasing and surprising note choices, and the backings, whether orchestral or jazzy, are sympathetic. Most of the songs Holiday recorded in her career could be described as "love songs," so this is really just a sampler of her later years, but a reasonable one. ---William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com

Billie Holiday, właściwie Elinore Harris (ur. 7 kwietnia 1915 w Filadelfii, zm. 17 lipca 1959 w Nowym Jorku) – amerykańska śpiewaczka jazzowa; przedstawicielka "miejskiej", swingowej odmiany wokalistyki jazzowej. Przez Lestera Younga, lojalnego przyjaciela i partnera muzycznego, nazywana także Lady Day. Utwory, do których napisała teksty – m.in. "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain" i "Lady Sings the Blues" – na przestrzeni lat stały się jazzowymi klasykami.

Kiedy się urodziła, jej matka, Sadie Fagan, miała 13 lat, a ojciec, Clarence Holiday – 15. W wieku 10 lat przyznała się, że została zgwałcona. W 1926 dostała się do katolickiego domu poprawczego, z którego później uciekła. Po przeprowadzce wraz z matką do Nowego Jorku, dostała pracę jako wokalistka w jednym z klubów Harlemu, co spowodowało, że zaczęła poświęcać muzyce coraz więcej uwagi. W 1933 została dostrzeżona przez Johna Hammonda, który pomógł jej w nagraniu pierwszych utworów. Od 1935 współpracowała z grupą Teddy'ego Wilsona, w 1937 została wokalistką big bandu Counta Basiego, a w 1938 dołączyła do grupy Artiego Shawa. W międzyczasie śpiewała też u boku takich artystów jak: Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge i Lester Young.

W roku 1943 została wybrana w ankiecie magazynu Esquire "najlepszą wokalistką", przed Mildred Bailey i Ellą Fitzgerald. Uzależnienie od alkoholu i narkotyków stały się przyczyną narastających kłopotów zdrowotnych. Była również kilkakrotnie aresztowana za posiadanie narkotyków, a wyrok za ich zażywanie łączył się także z odebraniem pozwolenia na występy na żywo. W maju 1958 roku trafiła do szpitala z powodu dolegliwości serca i marskości wątroby, która stała się również przyczyną jej śmierci 17 lipca 1959. Była osobą biseksualną. Billie Holiday nagrała ponad 350 płyt, w tym około 70 z Teddym Wilsonem i Lesterm Youngiem. Spopularyzowała pieśń Strange Fruit, protest przeciwko dyskryminacji rasowej mówiący o ciele zlinczowanego murzyna zwisającym z drzewa. W 2000 Billie Holiday została wprowadzona do Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin (1958)

2010-04-14T12:59:29Z

Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin (1958)


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

Personnel:
    Billie Holiday, vocal
    Ray Ellis, arranger and conductor
    George Ockner, violin and concertmaster
    David Soyer, cello
    Janet Putnam, harp
    Danny Bank, flute
    Phil Bodner, flute
    Romeo Penque, flute
    Mel Davis, trumpet
    J.J. Johnson, trombone
    Urbie Green, trombone
    Tom Mitchell, trombone
    Mal Waldron, piano
    Barry Galbraith, guitar
    Milt Hinton, bass
    Osie Johnson, drums
    Elise Bretton, backing vocals
    Miriam Workman, backing vocals

A harrowing classic, Billie Holiday's personal favorite among her '50s albums captures the singer 17 months before her death, her once honeyed voice, scarred and weakened from punishing life, its ravages highlighted by the 1958 session's crisp sonics and the contrasting "satin" of Ray Ellis' sleek string arrangements. Yet it is that very contrast that explains the power of these performances: In revisiting its torchy standards, Holiday reduces them to their core of pain and longing, transforming "I'm a Fool to Want You," "You Don't Know What Love Is," and "You've Changed" into naked declarations as mesmerizing and unsettling as a horrific accident. Any postrocker that presumes pop standards and string sections automatically translate to "easy listening" hasn't listened to this. This 1997 version adds unreleased takes and a beautiful 20-bit digital transfer to extract every shivering pang of Holiday's music. ---Sam Sutherland, Editorial Reviews

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Billie Holiday – Last Recording (1959)

2010-04-14T13:44:25Z

Billie Holiday – Last Recording (1959)


1. All of You
2. Sometimes I'm Happy
3. You Took Advantage Of Me
4. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
5. There'll Be Some Changes Made
6. 'Deed I Do
7. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
8. All The Way
9. Just One More Chance
10. It's Not For Me To Say
11. I'll Never Smile Again
12. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home

Personnel
    Billie Holiday, vocals
    Ray Ellis, arranger & conductor
    Harry Edison, trumpet
    Joe Wilder, trumpet
    Al Cohn, tenor sax
    Danny Bank, baritone sax
    Billy Byers, trombone
    Hank Jones, piano
    Barry Galbraith, guitar
    Osie Johnson, drums
    Milt Hinton, bass

Last Recordings, originally titled Billie Holiday before her death, is the last album of Billie Holiday released in 1959. After the success of her album, Lady in Satin (1958), Billie Holiday wanted to record another album with arranger Ray Ellis. Ellis had switched from Columbia to MGM, so Billie switched labels also to avoid breaching her contract with Columbia. When she returned to the studio in March 1959, jazz critic and friend of Holiday's Leonard Feather, said Holiday "walked into the studio statuesque and sharp as ever."

Unlike Lady In Satin, Billie Holiday had a lighter string orchestra, minus the choir, and more horns, including a saxophone and a more jazz like feeling. It also demand less fanfare. Songs like "All of You", "'Deed I Do", and "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" have a lighter and happier tempo and do not include strings. Holiday told Ellis she wanted to “sound like Sinatra” on this album; but she was in such poor health from years of difficulty and substance abuse that a nurse sometimes had to help keep her propped up on a high stool as she sang.

During the time of recording Billie Holiday, Holiday's health was taking its toll. Some say that she did not look like herself at all, and looked like a ghost of what she once was. In the song "There'll Be Some Changes Made", Holiday replaces the name Jack Benny in the lyric "Even Jack Benny has been changin' his jokes" to Frank Sinatra, her jazz friend. The album was completed on March 11, 1959. Four days later, Billie Holiday's lifelong friend and music partner Lester Young died on March 15, 1959. She would die four months later on July 17, 1959 at the age of 44. Allmusic music critic Ron Wynn gave the album one and half stars out of five stating, "In many ways, a sad event... It's poignant in a tragic way."

By 1959, use of hard drugs and alcohol had taken their toll on Holiday's voice . It is evident that her voice had deteriorated since her previous album Lady In Satin. Producer and arranger Ray Ellis said that the producers "accidentally" adjusted the speed at 1/4 pitch faster in the studio making Holiday's voice high pitched in some songs like "You Took Advantage of Me". ---wikipedia

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Billie Holiday – My Man (1999)

2009-10-15T20:03:24Z

Billie Holiday – My Man (1999)


01.	My Man
02.	Miss Brown To You (Version 1)
03.	Keeps On A Raining
04.	Love Man
05.	I Cover The Waterfront
06.	All Of Me
07.	You’re My Thrill
08.	He’s Funny That Way
09.	Billie’s Blues
10.	Miss Brown To You (Version 2)
11.	My Man (Version 2)
12.	Tenderly

Made her first recordings together with Benny Goodman. From 1939 she started recording songs with the jazzmen from that time, and around 1940' she also started playing in some movies.

In the 50s, her voice was slipping fast, thanks to unhappy relationships, heroin use and excessive drinking. In 1959 she collapsed, when she was placed under arrest for heroin possession while on her deathbed. Inducted into Blues Hall of Fame in 1991. Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 (Early Influence).

Billie Holiday - jedna z wielkich dam jazzu zwana "Lady Day", której głos i styl śpiewania stał się od razu rozpoznawalny. Zasłynęła dzięki takim utworom jak "God Bless The Child", "Strange Fruit" czy "My Man".

Billie Holiday urodziła się w 1915 roku w Filadelfii jako Eleonora Fagan Gough. Jej dzieciństwo nie było szczęśliwe, ojciec zostawił matkę, gdy Billie była niemowlęciem. Po przeprowadzce do Nowego Jorku śpiewała w podrzędnych klubach Harlemu. Od gwiazdy filmowej Billie Dove zapożyczyła sobie pseudonim - i tak narodziła się jedna z największych gwiazd wśród wokalistek jazzowych - Billie Holiday, obdarzona nie tylko niezwykłym, pełnym emocji głosem, ale także siłą ekspresji i energią, jaka w kobiecych głosach była dotychczas mało spotykana.

W wieku 18 lat została dostrzeżona przez Johna Hamonnda, który umożliwił jej pierwsze studyjne nagrania w Columbia Studios. Wkrótce utwory takie jak "Miss Brown To You" czy "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" stały się wielkimi hitami. Dzięki temu Holiday podpisała kontrakt z wytwórnią płytową. W 1935 wystąpiła w filmie "Symphony In Black: A Rapsody of Negro Life" z muzyką Duke'a Ellingtona. W 1937 rozpoczęła współpracę z Lesterem Youngiem, który obdarzył ją przydomkiem "Lady Day". Przydomek ten, tak jak białe gardenie wpinane we włosy stał się znakiem rozpoznawczym Billie. Rok później zaczęła śpiewać z zespołem Artie'ego Shawa.

Wyjątkowym utworem w karierze Billie Holiday stała się piosenka "Strange Fruit" opowiadająca o brutalnym traktowaniu czarnoskórych Amerykanów w tamtym czasie. Gdy jedna z wytwórni odmówiła wydania piosenki, Billie znalazła inną a "Strange Fruit" stała się jednym z największych i najbardziej kontrowersyjnych (a w niektórych rozgłośniach jednym z zabronionych) hitów tej wokalistki. Po raz ostatni Holiday pojawiła się w nagraniu telewizyjnym w 1957, gdzie wystąpiła w "The Sound of Jazz" z Lesterem, Youngiem i Colemanem Hawkinsem.

Billie Holiday współpracowała z największymi muzykami swoich czasów, jednak w życiu osobistym nie była szczęśliwa. Nieudane związki, rozbita rodzina, nadużywanie alkoholu i narkotyków oraz depresja spowodowały przedwczesną śmierć Lady Day, która odeszła w wieku 44 lat. W 1972 powstał o niej film "Lady Sings the Blues", gdzie główną rolę zagrała inna wokalistka, Diana Ross. ---rmf.fm

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