Billie Holiday - Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Billie Holiday
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Artist: Billie HolidayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- I Cried For You (with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra)
- What A Little Moonlight Can Do (with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra)
- Me, Myself and I
- Without Your Love
- Strange Fruit
- Yesterdays
- Some Other Spring
- Solitude
- God Bless The Child
- Gloomy Sunday (with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra)
- I Cover The Waterfront (with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra)
- Trav'lin' Light (with Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra)
- Lover Man
- Don't Explain
- Good Morning Heartache
- Autumn In New York
- Lady Sings The Blues
- Fine and Mellow
- You've Changed
Music reviews of Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Billie Holiday
Music Review: Perfect tone
Rating: 5 Stars
I am not a jazz or music expert, but Billie Holiday is my favorite vocalist, period. However, most of the other collections I have of hers (and admittedly, it's pretty limited) seem unable to divorce her public persona from her music. We know about her personal struggles, and it almost seems as if other producers have arranged her songs to reflect the inevitable downward spiral we know will come.
This album, however, hits the perfect Billie Holiday pitch. For the first few songs, she's young, maybe slightly hopeful, but definitely a little haunted. For the bulk of the songs in the middle, she's romantic, but edgy with cynicism about her experiences and weaknesses. The tragedy seems to have arrived by the last three tracks, but even still, it's not so hopeless that it's painful to listen to.
"Solitude", "Autumn in New York", "Traveling Light" and "Gloomy Sunday" are my favorites here. If I have any complaints about this release, it's that it whets my appetite for more.
Description of Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Billie Holiday
This greatest-hits collection accompanies Ken Burns's 10-part documentary Jazz and shows that though she never practiced the vocal gymnastics of an Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday was unquestionably among the greatest jazz singers, with a subtle inventiveness in phrasing and note choice and a tremendous capacity to swing. This collection covers virtually the entire career of a fascinating and troubled artist, beginning with her sparkling mid-1930s recordings with pianist Teddy Wilson and the cream of swing-era horn players. While those fresh-voiced early records already indicate Holiday's capacity for conveying the nuances of a lyric, her work soon took on greater drama. "Strange Fruit," a 1939 account of a lynching, marked a breakthrough in the popular song, as well as in Holiday's career, and her controlled intensity only becomes more marked on signature songs like the wistful "God Bless the Child" and the moving "Don't Explain." Holiday's voice deteriorated in the later 1950s, but performances like "Fine and Mellow" show that her emotional power and musicality remained intact. --Stuart BroomerCabaret CDs
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