Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Standards (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), known professionally as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.

After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who liked her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson produced the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. She was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Because of personal struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed reaction but were mild commercial successes. Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959 at age 44. She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. She was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame. Several films about her life have been released.

TRACKLIST

1. Billie Holiday - But Not For Me (Remastered)
2. Billie Holiday - When Your Lover Has Gone (Remastered)
3. Billie Holiday - All Of Me (Remastered)
4. Billie Holiday - Stormy Weather (Remastered)
5. Billie Holiday - Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good For You? (Remastered)
6. Billie Holiday - It Had To Be You (Remastered)
7. Billie Holiday - East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) (Remastered)
8. Billie Holiday - Body And Soul (Remastered)
9. Billie Holiday - April In Paris (Remastered)
10. Billie Holiday - Tenderly (Remastered)
11. Billie Holiday - When It's Sleepy Time Down South (Remastered)
12. Billie Holiday - You Turned The Tables On Me (Remastered)
13. Billie Holiday - Love Is Here to Stay (Remastered)
14. Billie Holiday - What's New? (Remastered)
15. Billie Holiday - We'll Be Together Again (Remastered)
16. Billie Holiday - Darn That Dream! (Remastered)



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