Billie Holiday - Singin' Her Greatest Songs (2007)
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The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. Almost fifty years after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylized reading of this blues tradition revolutionized traditional pop, ripping the decades-long tradition of song plugging in two by refusing to compromise her artistry for either the song or the band. She made clear her debts to Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong (in her autobiography she admitted, "I always wanted Bessie's big sound and Pops' feeling"), but in truth her style was virtually her own, quite a shock in an age of interchangeable crooners and band singers.
Track List:
01: Lady Sings The Blues
02: Strange Fruit
03: I Must Have That Man
04: God Bless The Child
05: Travelin’ Light
06: No God Man
07: Some Old Spring
08: Good Morning Heartache
09: All Or Nothing At All
10: Nice Work If You Can Get It
11: Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
12: Willow Weep For Me
13: Speak Low
14: April In Paris
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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Scans