Jazz / Mainstream Jazz; Standards; Hard Bop
Recorded: May 9, 1952-Jan 13, 1967
The jazz performances assembled in this collection are mostly connected not with a songwriter but with one of the most engagingly emotional singers ever - "Lady Day," Billie Holiday. She brought a vulnerability and painful reality to these songs, many of which were about heartbreak but which seemed to suggest her own tragic life. When Billie Holiday sang a song, she made it her own. And her voice echoes through the eight magnificent performances by some of Blue Note's greatest artists. |
