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Billie Holiday Buying Guide
Billie Holiday
Although her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues



We lost our "Lady Day
Discography
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Verve Records reissued this 1956 classic under a new name, "Solitude |
An Evening with Billie Holiday Almost the entire album is devoted to a lost love and a broken heart with songs like "Stormy Weather |
With Harry "Sweets" Edison and Charlie Shavers sharing trumpet duty and Wynton Kelly on piano, this is one of Holiday's finest Verve recordings. Songs like "Good Morning Heartache |
Tenor saxophonist Ben Webster was one of many fine jazz musicians on this classic album, which includes songs like "Moonlight in Vermont |
Teaming up with jazz musicians like trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, this album brings you classic ballads, but with Holiday's unique spin on songs like Cole Porter |
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Holiday gives us her take on popular standards such as Irving Berlin |
Her final studio album was released in 1958, a year before her death. Although her voice is more gravely due to long years of drug abuse, Holiday's phrasing and sheer emotion stands out even moreso on songs like "I'm a Fool to Want You |
Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport Recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival |
Recorded during the first year of the Monterey Jazz Festival, it was both Holiday's first and last appearance at the festival. She's backed by a number of great musicians including baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and jazz musican Benny Carter. |
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 Released in 2001, this 10-disc box set features not only "Lady Day |
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External Links
- Wikipedia.org: General overview of the life and music of Billie Holiday.















