![]() ![]() (3) Combo including Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins (ts) Doc Cheatham (t) Vic Dickinson (tb). (2) Combo featuring Harry (Sweets) Edison (t) Benny Carter (as) Jimmy Rowles (p). (1) I’m A Fool To Want You For Heaven’s Sake You Don’t Know What Love Is I Get Along Without You Very Well For All We Know Violets For Your Furs You’ve changed It’s Easy To Remember But Beautiful Glad To Be Unhappy I’ll Be Around The End Of A Love Affair (2) Prelude To A Kiss A Ghost Of A chance Gone With The Wind Come Rain Or Come Shine What’s New (3) Fine And Mellow (73.26) It is nowhere near Billie’s best but it is, I believe, a great (if flawed) jazz record and deserves to be in every serious collection. The heavenly choir is a distraction but you can’t have everything. Maybe it was never that but it was a moving, powerful performance by a woman who suffered greatly but never gave up or sold an audience short. She loved this record and thought it one of her best. Billie stretched what was left of her voice over these 12 standards with professional determination and plenty of jazz style and the orchestra helped her every step of the way. Johnson or Urbie Green on trombone, Janet Putnam’s harp, Phil Bodner’s bass clarinet and Mel Davis’s trumpet. Listen out also for those sympathetically melancholy interjections from the likes of J.J. It is instructive to listen carefully to the way Billie pours everything (and she didn’t have an awful lot left) into interpreting these songs as the orchestra wraps around her with great skill and big orchestra expertise. Barnes & Noble has the best selection of Blues & Folk Blues Vinyl LPs. Billie lives the words of every song, painfully but emotionally and she is superbly backed by the sympathetic Ellis orchestra. As Sally says she didn’t lose an ounce of her emotional impact and range. Although Billie’s voice was cracked and strained throughout and you can hear it on every selection, the ravaged voice puts across the pain, sorrow, lost-love feeling, hurt and jazz feel of every note of every song. For these delightful six minutes alone I would most likely prefer this disc, but punters will make their own minds up.Īs to the main event here, the Satin disc, I find myself out of step with many commentators. The bonus tracks here end with a really strong six-minute reading of Fine And Mellow in early stereo and Billie on good form with the luxury of solos by Lester, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and Doc Cheatham. On the other hand this release includes some sterling performances by Billie, with voice more or less intact and in her ideal habitat accompanied by the likes of Benny Carter, Lester Young, Harry Edison, Doc Cheatham and Vic Dickinson. That set included the LP made the following year by Billie with the Ellis orchestra and for that reason many will prefer it over this one as it provides the complete 1958/59 Lady In Satin sessions. TOTAL TIME: 68:23 Min.A CD of the same title on American Jazz Classics was recently released and reviewed for JJ by Sally Evans-Darby. Storyville Club, Boston, late April 1959.ĬD 1: TTHE STEREO VERSION (Columbia CS-8048)ġ3 ‘T AIN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS IF I DO (*)Ģ1 OH, WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO (*)ĬD 2: THE MONO VERSION (Columbia CL-1157)ġ4 PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I’M GONE (*) London, England, February 25, 1959.ĬD 2 : Mal Waldron (p), Champ Jones (b), Roy Haynes (d). Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, California, October 5, 1958.ĬD 2 : Mal Waldron (p) and orchestra conducted by Peter Knight. ![]() (*) BONUS TRACKS: BILLIE HOLIDAY (vcl) with:ĬD 1 : Gerry Mulligan (bar), Benny Carter (as), Buddy DeFranco (cl), Mal Waldron (p),Įddie Khan (b), Dick Berk (d). Some of Billie’s last live performances, among them her complete 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival concert and a 1959 set at the Storyville Club in Boston, have been added here as a bonus. Free Jazz / Avant-Garde / Impro up to 50% Discount.Vinyl Sale 20% Discount on selected Titles.Waxtime Colored Classic LPs & Special Vinyl Editions.Supper Club: Female Vocal Jazz on Vinyl.Jazz, Funk & Soul 7 Inch Collector's Editions.Easy Listening, Exotica, Soundtracks & Library Music.Billie Holiday - The End Of A Love Affair. Jazz-Rock, Prog-Rock, Canterbury Sound, RIO & other deviances Lady In Satin (LP, Album, Mono)Fontana: 682 024 TL: Netherlands: 1958: New Submission.Afro-Jazz, Disco-Funk, Soul-Jazz & Global Sounds.J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan + Related Japanese Music.Avant-Garde, Free Jazz, Contemporary Music, Ambient & Minimalism.Spiritual Jazz, Fusion, Jazz Funk & Modal.Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz. Nicknamed ' Lady Day ' by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. R&B - Soul - Funk - R n' R - Folk & Country Eleanora Fagan (Ap July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.
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