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| | Anthology 1947-1956 CDs (2008) Import
 $28.15 
Japanese pressing of 2008 album from the singer/songwriter, his second release on Jack Johnson's Brushfire Records label. When Matt Costa sat down to write what would become Unfamiliar Faces, the follow-up to his 2005 debut full-length Songs We Sing, the ...
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| Songs For Distingue Lovers CD (1957) Reissue
$12.35   
Comprised of the last five studio dates Holiday did for Verve, SONGS FOR DISTINGUE LOVERS finds Lady Day operating within her ideal environment; that of a small jazz combo. Accompanied by a legendary line-up including Sweets Edison, Ben Webster and ...
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| Complete Verve Studio Master Takes CDs (2005) Remastered; Box Set
$51.95
THE COMPLETE VERVE STUDIO MASTER TAKES makes a definitive and compelling case for Holiday's Verve tenure. Packaged in a deep-dish metallic box (which resembles the world's most beautiful lunch pail), THE COMPLETE comprises six CDs, a 60-page booklet filled with ...
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| First Issue: The Great American Songbook CDs (1994)
$17.39 
Part of Verve's "Postage Stamp" collection, FIRST ISSUE culls two discs worth of some of Billie's finer recordings made between 1952 and 1959 on the Verve and later-to-be Verve Clef labels. As on Ella's songbook series, all of the selected ...
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| Lady Sings The Blues CD (1956) Reissue; Remastered; Digipak
$8.19
Some Holiday fans embrace the very weariness and faults of her late recordings that others find heartbreaking and disappointing. These sessions from 1955 and 1956 clearly show the results of a life marked by alcohol and drug abuse, horrific love ...
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| Ultimate Collection CDs (2005) With DVD; Digipak
$25.69 
DVD includes rare film and television appearances as well as an audio rehearsal plus audio interviews with Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine, Jimmy Rowles, Sylvia Syms, Roy Eldridge, Jo Jones, John Hammond and others.
Meticulously selected, lovingly assembled, and beautifully packaged, this ...
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| Lady In Autumn: Best Of The Verve Years CDs (1991)
$17.29
Recorded between 1946 and 1959. Includes liner notes by Joel E. Siegel.
Digitally remastered by Dennis Drake, Andrew Nicholas, Thomas Ruff and Mark Wilder (PolyGram Studios) and Gert Van Hoeyen (PolyGram, The Netherlands).
Without question the greatest jazz singer there has ever ...
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| Billie's Best CD (1992)
$8.79
BILLIE'S BEST contains selections from the box set: THE COMPLETE BILLIE HOLIDAY ON VERVE, 1945-1959.
Recorded between 1952 and 1959. Includes liner notes by James Isaacs.
Billie Holiday approached a tune the way jazz instrumentalists do, particularly horn players, and this tendency ...
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| Ken Burns Jazz Collection CD (2000)
$8.09
Recorded between 1935 and 1958. Includes liner notes by Phil Bailey.
Digitally remastered by Kevin Reeves (Universal Mastering Studios-East).
Whatever gripes one may have with the short shrift given post-bebop jazz in Ken Burns's ten-part TV documentary JAZZ, he took great care ...
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| Ultimate Billie Holiday CD (1997)
$8.39
ULTIMATE BILLIE HOLIDAY is also available with Nina Simone's ULTIMATE NINA SIMONE and Ella Fitzgerald's ULTIMATE ELLA FITZGERALD in the 3-CD box set ULTIMATE DIVAS (Verve 557 595).
Recorded between 1945 and 1956. Includes liner notes by Shirley Horn and Will ...
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 Billie Holiday Lyrics and Songs
Popular or famous Billie Holiday songs: My Man Lyrics, Strange Fruit Lyrics, I Cover the Waterfront Lyrics, What a Little Moonlight Can Do Lyrics, Lover Man Lyrics, Don't Explain Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs All of Me Lyrics, Lover Come Back to Me Lyrics, He's Funny That Way Lyrics, Body and Soul Lyrics, Good Morning Heartache Lyrics, Solitude Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Miss Brown to You Lyrics, Easy Living Lyrics, I'll Get By Lyrics, You Go to My Head Lyrics, Summertime Lyrics, I Cried For You Lyrics, Yesterdays Lyrics, Fine Romance Lyrics.
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Billie Holiday Biography
The quintessential jazz singer, Billie Holiday seemed to stamp her heart onto everything she sang. With a thin, reedy voice and almost laconic style, she could give even a throwaway pop song a gut-wrenching twist. Her most memorable music is loaded with an intensity of emotion--both playfulness and despair--that few can match. From the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s, Lady Day was at her peak, recording numerous sessions with other jazz heavyweights such as Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Lester Young, and many more. In the late '40s, however, Holiday's romantic and substance-related problems led to trouble with the law and declining health, both of which would continue until her death in 1959. Her personal misfortunes ensured she would make headlines in her day; her one-of-a-kind talent made her a legend for the ages.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Billie Holiday | Artie Shaw, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Hot Lips Page, Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, Ray Ellis & His Orchestra, Dave Brubeck | | Ben Webster | Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Witherspoon, Count Basie, Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Carmen McRae |
Contemporaries
Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee (Vocals), Ben Webster, Artie Shaw, Anita O'Day, Lester Young, Carmen McRae, Roy Eldridge, Billy Eckstine, Teddy Wilson, Jack Teagarden, Chris Connor (Vocals), Betty Carter, Esther Phillips, Lee Wiley, Mildred Bailey, Mabel Mercer, Helen Humes, Connee Boswell, Ivie Anderson, Carrie Smith, Una Mae Carlisle
Followers
Nina Simone, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughan, Cassandra Wilson, Etta James, Erykah Badu, Macy Gray, Shirley Horn, Abbey Lincoln, Lena Horne, June Christy, Betty Carter, Anita O'Day, Karen Dalton, Chris Connor (Vocals)
Influences
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Ma Rainey, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Ethel Waters, Monette Moore
More Music Artists
Borodin String Quartet, Astroburger
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