Billie Holiday was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed Lady Day by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. This collection features 40 of her best songs on a 3 CD set and is sure to be a great introduction to any jazz fan of her incredible talent.
Although her career extended to her untimely death in 1959, the reputation, legend and legacy of Billie Holiday would be secure if we had only these sublime recordings to sustain us. It can be easily argued that her work for Columbia and its various subsidiaries of the time captured Holiday at her peak -- her voice in top shape, her phrasing at its most inventive and her accompanists the best she would ever have. Holiday is simply dazzling on scores of popular songs, both imperishable standards and ephemeral pop ditties that we wouldn't know without her imprint having legitimized them. Whether... [Read More]
There's no such thing as a genuine Billie Holiday greatest-hits collection--her career was split among too many labels for that--but this single-disc distillation of the Complete Decca Recordings 2 CD set (recorded between 1944 and 1950) is pretty solid. Holiday's in fine vocal form (though her accompaniment is undistinguished easy-listening stuff; the choir on "God Bless the Child" is a bit frustrating), and the songs are arranged to work as an album rather than chronologically. She transcends the ideas of torch songs, of blues, of ballad singing--her version of "Lover Man" exemplifies erotic... [Read More]
The gloriously emotive voice of blues singer Billie Holiday remains a source of enjoyment and inspiration today, five decades after her tragic demise. Perhaps Frank Sinatra got it right when he said simply that she was 'one of the most important influences on American popular singing' - and remains so today. Featured here are 8 of her original albums, digitally remastered for optimum sound quality.
Beautifully packaged 3CD box set featuring six complete studio albums from the incomparable Billie Holiday. This release showcases Billie shining among such star jazzmen as Harry ''Sweets'' Edison, Ben Webster, Benny Carter, Charlie Shavers, Oscar Peterson, and Barney Kessel, among others. The albums included in this set are: Music for Torching with Billie Holiday (Clef MGC-669), Velvet Mood (Clef MGC-713), Lady Sings the Blues (Clef Records MG C-721), Solitude (Clef LP MG C-690), Songs for Distingué Lovers (Verve V6-8257), and Body and Soul (Verve V6-8197). Includes a comprehensive full colo... [Read More]
Get your dance cards ready for sweeping your partner across the dance floor to 26 delightful vintage tunes. Perfect music for your afternoon or evening tea dances and tea parties. Track listing: Reinhardt & Grappelli - Tea For Two The Ink Spots - Java Jive Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sugar Foot Stomp Fats Waller & His Rhythm - My Very Good Friend The Milkman Jan Savitt & His Top Hatters - Jersey Bounce Paul Whiteman - Happy Feet Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine The Boswell Sisters and Dorsey Brothers - When I Take My Sugar To Tea Jimmie Lunceford - For Dancers Only Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson... [Read More]
Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound, from the original analog tape 200-gram LP plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings! Featuring "Wild Man Blues" "Dickie's Dream" and more! This 200-gram Analogue Productions LP reissue is a magnificent-sounding recording of a historic TV event. For a rare and glorious one-hour nationwide broadcast, CBS brought together 32 towering heavyweight jazz musicians of the swing era for the jam session to end all jam sessions. The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957, live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater at 851 Ninth Avenue in New Yor... [Read More]
Because bandleader Tommy Dorsey had so many hits during the 1930s and '40s, his later work has been comparatively ignored or dismissed. But the 70 choice selections here, recorded with fine musicianship and in great sound from 1950 to 1953, show that Dorsey was still a formidable trombonist. Includes two new versions of Tommy's theme, I'm Getting' Sentimental Over You, one with chorus and the other with only the trombone section, piano, and bass (never before on CD).
For those who want Artie's top hits and the artistic triumphs that brought him undying esteem, this 2-CD set is it ! Smashes like Begin the Beguine; Back Bay Shuffle; Frenesi; Blues in the Night; Nightmare; Indian Love Call; Traffic Jam; Deep in a Dream , and Star Dust join an unissued Streamline (1936), and 28 more.
UK collection. To commemorate the 50th anniversary this month of the ground-breaking Hit The Road Stax tour of the UK and Europe, Kent is delighted to bring you a second volume of previously un-reissued Stax recordings from the company's "blue" era (1960-68). Our first volume from The Other Side Of The Trax was originally intended to be a standalone project with no follow-up. Strong demand for more of the same - plus the fact that there were still many Stax masters to choose from - made the compilation of a second volume something of a formality. These may have been b-sides originally, but the... [Read More]
The songs on this 3 cd collection could be described as the soundtrack to life in the Forties. The decade began with the continuing horror of War and all it entails. Music became a kind of escape and a connection between those separated by time and circumstance. Precious moments were spent family and loved ones listening to these songs. When peace came and there was some time for celebration, reunions and reflection, these were the songs that people wanted to hear and enjoy.This collection (so evocative of its time) has something for almost all tastes from I'll be seeing you and Stormy Weather... [Read More]
2009 two CD collection. Though he might have been ranked second at any given moment to Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller or Harry James, Tommy Dorsey was overall the most popular bandleader of the swing era who's high standards and attention to detail made him a maestro of the swing band. From the lively introduction of 'The Music Goes 'Round and Around', we're off and swinging, and with great musicians throughout this fantastic double disc set including Sterling Bose, Bud Freeman and, of course, Dorsey himself. Amongst all the fine solo's to be heard in this collection, it is impossible... [Read More]
2015 collection from the jazz icon. Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan, and nicknamed quot;Lady Dayquot; by legendary saxophonist Lester Young, influenced singers, jazz and otherwise, for generations and continues to do so today. God Bless
Billie Holiday - Best Of Billie Holiday (CD NEW)Label: Collectables RecordsFormat: CDRelease Date: 28 Aug 2007No. of Discs: 1UPC: 090431865828Album Tracks1. Trav'lin Light2. Detour Ahead3. I Cover the Waterfront4. My Man5. Them There Eyes6. Blue
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