Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
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Artist: Billie HolidayEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-09-23
Music Label: Sony
Accessories: Soundtracks:
- I'm a Fool to Want You [Edited Master]
- 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
- End of a Love Affair [Mono Version]
- I'm a Fool to Want You [Take 3][#][*]
- I'm a Fool to Want You [Take 2 - Alternate Take][#][*]
- End of a Love Affair: The Audio Story [#][*]
- End of a Love Affair [Stereo][#][*]
- [Pause Track]
Music reviews of Lady in Satin
Music Review: An UNQUESTIONED MASTERPIECE of Sorrow.......
Rating: 5 Stars
Does it help to be a MASOCHIST in order to fully ABSORB this AWESOME product?.....well, yes, perhaps, but so does HAMLET......
A PREPOSTEROUS analogy? Not really----- What SHAKESPEARE does with the written word, Ms. Holiday ACHIEVES through the DEEPEST, DARKEST of voyages up there with the very best in art....
Entire books could (and have?) be written about this EXCEPTIONAL, controversial work of HUMANITY, but we shall be relatively brief...... That the artist was perhaps DRUGGED, half- drunk when performing these gems is an ETERNAL dilemma of popular music that this writer will not go into, except to state the fact that whatever it took to bring this RAW INTENSITY out was more than acceptable, given the circumstances-----was POLLOCK DRUNK mad? Was MILES flying high on who knows what? were Lennon/Mccartney "enlightened" by Hallucinogens------and on and on it goes......A controversial subject....
More to the point is that If you come to this artist as this writer did----through "Lady in Satin" before the more "innocent", fresher voice that had abandoned her already, you may NEVER be able to let go------ the DEPTH, the CHARACTER, the MATURITY, the POETRY, the AUTHORITY (indeed!!) that this woman brings to these songs is that of the very old SAGE who has seen it all, stripped down to the very essence----- even when that "essence"-----elusive that it must remain----- seems almost connected exclusively to TRAGEDY.......
Well, again, we read SHAKESPEARE, yes, for the comedies, but the TRAGEDIES are the ESSENCE of Shakespeare.....
One recent analogy has been the poetry of EMILY DICKINSON------ if you can, do so, because what she does with words is sort of bring them to the FORE for you, and all those dormant images that we grow so "blase" about are re-awakened---- in a sort of "buddhist" fashion, so that you can "re-learn" to live again...... The greatest of poets.......THAT IS what Holiday will do to you......
At first PAINFUL to the ear and the heart (and PLEASE don't GO NEAR this when in a deep depression, or God save you, suicidal)----- like CALLAS at her best, it is the TRANSCENDENCE of technique to the point that the ravages of the instrument are the least thing to consider----- it is the EXPRESSIVENESS of that instrument all that matters......
All twelve of these songs are MASTERPIECES of INTERPRETATION-----and consider that they had already been done TO DEATH by a thousand others.....
No matter.....
Ms. Holiday approaches every one of these with her INTELLECT, her complete CONFIDENCE in that "RAVAGED" voice (an act of INMENSE COURAGE as well), with a CERTAINTY that shakes you to the CORE---- to the very ESSENCE......When she sings "I get along without you very well......", well, co-dependency is an insulting word that would cheapen the SOUL she conveys.....When she tells you that "You don't know what love is...." it is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone (Sinatra? Simone?....) to MATCH her COMPLETE AUTHORITY......
After twenty years of hundreds of listenings, this is one album that remains at the very top of POP Vocalists for the EXCELLENCE with which she has performed..... The "SATIN" of Ellis only serves to HEIGHTEN the MORBID, DEFEATED, EXTRAORDINARILY powerful performance.......
Again, only CALLAS can be said to surpass this exceptional moment in the history of 20th. Century music........
Description of Lady in Satin
Limited 'Millennium Edition' reissue of classic 1958 album in a deluxe heavyweight miniaturized LP sleeve complete with inner sleeve and a Japanese-style obi strip on the spine. 12 tracks. Individually numbered. 1999 release.A harrowing classic, Billie Holiday's personal favorite among her '50s albums captures the singer 17?months before her death, her once honeyed voice, scarred and weakened from punishing life, its ravages highlighted by the 1958 session's crisp sonics and the contrasting "satin" of Ray Ellis' sleek string arrangements. Yet it is that very contrast that explains the power of these performances: In revisiting its torchy standards, Holiday reduces them to their core of pain and longing, transforming "I'm a Fool to Want You," "You Don't Know What Love Is," and "You've Changed" into naked declarations as mesmerizing and unsettling as a horrific accident. Any postrocker that presumes pop standards and string sections automatically translate to "easy listening" hasn't listened to this. This 1997 version adds unreleased takes and a beautiful 20-bit digital transfer to extract every shivering pang of Holiday's music. --Sam Sutherland
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