LADY SINGS THE BLUES is the soundtrack for those final, troubled years. In 1959, Holiday would die with 70 cents in her bank account. The lynching depicted in 'Strange Fruit' is certainly made even more powerful and harrowing by Holiday's slow, wrenching delivery. greatest jazz singers from the 1930s through the 1950s, Billie Holiday released her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues (with William Dufty) in 1956. But the juxtaposition works on 'I Must Have That Man,' where Holiday's interpretations seem to be saying that even good love is tragic. On such cuts as 'Too Marvelous For Words' the contrast between the lyrics and Holiday's heavy-heartedness is disconcerting. These sessions from 19 clearly show the results of a life marked by alcohol and drug abuse, horrific love affairs and racism. Some Holiday fans embrace the very weariness and faults of her late recordings that others find heartbreaking and disappointing. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Furie about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from Holidays song. Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (Polygram Studios). Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical drama film directed by Sidney J. 'Lady Sings the Blues' is a song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, and jazz pianist Herbie Nichols.

Sixteen years later, Berry Gordy’s big screen adaptation of the same name would further highlight the. Recorded at Fine Sound and William And Maely Dufty's Home, New York, New York between February 1955 and June 1956. In 1956 she would publish her infamously transparent autobiography Lady Sings The Blues.

Personnel: Billie Holiday (vocals) Budd Johnson, Paul Quinichette (tenor saxophone) Charlie Shavers (trumpet) Tony Scott (clarinet, piano) Wynton Kelly, Billy Taylor (piano) Billy Bauer, Kenny Burrell (guitar) Aaron Bell, Leonard Gaskin (bass) Cozy Cole, Lennie McBrowne (drums). Shop Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues - Vinyl LP - 1956 - JP - Reissue at the HHV Online Shop large selection fast delivery worldwide shipping. Originally released by Doubleday in 1956, Harlem Moon Classics celebrates the publication with the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Billie Holiday’s unforgettable and timeless memoir.

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