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Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers (1957) [Analogue Productions, Remastered 2012]

Posted By: Designol

Date: 6 Feb 2025 19:31:53

Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers (1957) [Analogue Productions, Remastered 2012]

Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound from the original master tapes to vinyl and PCM. It is undeniable that Billie Holiday's singing changed in her later years. Her voice darkened and shifted to a lower range. Her economy of means distilled her sound to its expressive essence - a kind of heightened speech. The classic LP Songs For Distingue Lovers has also deepened and become burnished with time. Maybe it's that still-arresting word, "distingue"; maybe it's that iconic, tinted image of Lady Day on the cover. But now that legendary LP, with the singer's best studio work of the Fifties, is available as a Hybrid SACD!

Songs for Distingué Lovers forms part of the last series of extensive small-group recordings that Lady Day would make in the studio. Although her voice was largely shot at this point, she puts so much feeling into the lyrics that it's easy to overlook her dark sound. The band is a major asset, and made up of all-stars: trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison, tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, pianist Jimmie Rowles, guitarist Barney Kessel, bassist Red Mitchell, and Alvin Stoller or Larry Bunker on drums. There are plenty of short solos for Edison, Webster, and Kessel. Holiday does her best on such numbers as "A Foggy Day," "One for My Baby," "Just One of Those Things," and "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," and there are plenty of haunting moments, even if one could tell (even at the time) that the end was probably drawing near for the singer.

Review by Scott Yanow, Allmusic.com

Billie Holiday at Allmusic
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Billie Holiday - vocals
Harry Edison - trumpet
Ben Webster - tenor saxophone
Jimmy Rowles - piano
Barney Kessel - guitar
Red Mitchell (#1,2,6), Joe Mondragon (#3-5) - bass
Alvin Stoller (#1,2,6), Larry Bunker (#3-5) - drums

Recorded in Los Angeles, CA on January 3-8, 1957.

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01. Day In Day Out (6:49)
02. A Foggy Day (4:43)
03. Stars Fell on Alabama (4:31)
04. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) (5:40)
05. Just One of Those Things (5:33)
06. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (5:59)

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