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1952 by Billie Holiday (CD, Apr-2003, Classics Jazz France) 
1952 by Billie Holiday (CD, Apr-2003, Classics Jazz France)

 
1952 by Billie Holiday (CD, Apr-2003, Classics Jazz France)

Release Date: Apr 2003
Format: CD
Record Label: Classics Jazz (France)
Genre: Cool, Jazz Vocal
UPC: 3307517128522
Product ID: EPID3513516
Description: Billie Holiday's recording career can be viewed in three distinct phases. The singer's evolution begins with the Vocalion/OKeh/Columbia years, steadily maturing throughout the Commodore, Decca, and latter-day Columbia sessions, then ripe...
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Track Listing
1. East of the Sun
2. Blue Moon
3. You Go to My Head
4. Your Turned the Tables on Me
5. Easy to Love
6. These Foolish Things
7. I Only Have Eyes For You
8. Solitude
9. Everything I Have
10. Love For Sale
11. Moonglow
12. Tenderly
13. Moon Turns Green, The
14. Remember?
15. Autumn in New York
16. My Man
17. Lover, Come Back to Me
18. Stormy Weather
19. Yesterdays
20. He's Funny That Way
21. I Can't Face the Music

Details
Distributor:City Hall
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Mono
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Billie Holiday's recording career can be viewed in three distinct phases. The singer's evolution begins with the Vocalion/OKeh/Columbia years, steadily maturing throughout the Commodore, Decca, and latter-day Columbia sessions, then ripening into music of incredible poignancy as she recorded almost exclusively with Norman Granz for his Clef and Verve labels during the 1950s. The material reissued on this disc, recorded during the spring and summer of 1952, presents Lady Day in full bloom. There is within each of these songs a powerful elegance that is both meditative and intoxicating. Here are the slow love songs, more relaxed than ever before, with magical turns of phrasing that rise above the band like smoke in the air. When the tempo picks up, as in the old Busby Berkeley number "I Only Have Eyes for You," Billie's trustworthy trumpeting pal Charlie Shavers injects a bit of mustard into the mix. But most of the material here is languid and the overall effect is that of a jazz lieder recital where songs are savored rather than being spooled out in haste. While most of the recordings conform to the three or three-and-a-half-minute range that had been dictated for years by the 10" 78-rpm record, "Everything I Have Is Yours" and "Autumn in New York" approach the four-minute mark, anticipating the emergence of the LP, a development that would allow jazz musicians to stretch out like never before. And "stretching out" is exactly what these people are doing as they carefully render these 21 songs of love and heartbreak. ~ arwulf arwulf

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