LADY IN SATIN / Billie Holiday
Wax Time (2012)
Jazz / Vocal Jazz / Blues
LP
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About Album
Originally released in 1958, this is the penultimate album completed by the singer and last released in her lifetime. The song material for Lady in Satin derived from the usual sources for Holiday in her three decade career, that of the Great American Songbook of classic pop. Unlike the bulk of Holiday's recordings, rather than in the setting of a jazz combo Holiday returns to the backdrop of full orchestral arrangements as done during her Decca years, this time in the contemporary vein of Frank Sinatra or Ella Fitzgerald on her Songbooks series. The album consists of songs Holiday had never recorded before.
Song List
Side A
- 1. I'm A Fool To Want You
- 2. For Heaven's Sake
- 3. You Don't Know What Love Is
- 4. I Get Along Without You Very Well
- 5. For All We Know
- 6. Violets For Your Furs
- 1. You've Changed
- 2. It's Easy To Remember
- 3. But Beautiful
- 4. Glad To Be Unhappy
- 5. I'll Be Around
- 6. The End Of A Love Affair
Comments
"You can almost hear the tears being shed by Billie Holiday on most tracks."
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