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Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
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Billie Holiday
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Product Details

  • Artist: Billie Holiday
  • Binding: Audio CD
  • EAN: 0696998597921
  • Label: Sony
  • Manufacturer: Sony
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Product Group: Music
  • Publisher: Sony
  • Release Date: 2001-10-02
  • Studio: Sony
  • Title: Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
  • UPC: 696998597921
Avg Customer Rating: 4 stars

Product Description: Lady Day: The Best Of Billie Holiday is an ideal introduction to the Voice of Jazz in all its enduring glory. This incomparable collection draws on the 10-CD boxed set Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (CXK 85470), representing not only her finest work, but American jazz and pop singing at its zenith. Accompanied sublimely by a Who's Who of the Swing Era (including her soulmate Lester Young, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Buck Clayton, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Jo Jones, and pianist-arranger Teddy Wilson, who was often at the helm when Holiday entered the studio), Billie Holiday masterfully renders a host of mostly-classic pop tunes. Fans are drawn to her musical triumphs and personal tragedies. She is a mysterious icon in the same vein as Miles Davis. Columbia possesses the first and finest recordings of her entire career! This material has never sounded clearer and more intimate!


Customer Reviews


1 stars the best of billie holiday
This is not a good demonstration of Billie Holliday. First, too many songs squeezed into each side. Sound not good. For me, it was a waste of money. One of her best is the Billie Holiday-Lester Young CD " a musical romance"


5 stars Lady Day
Excellent CD. A good purchase if you do not want to buy the box set. Has the essentials.


5 stars born talent, from the heart
If you love the blues, and its history, this is a must have. Billie Holiday had a voice, and a tempo, and delivery, followed by back-men who are jazz/blues icons today, that was new, and fresh, and inspiring in their time, and remains so today. I lost all my belongings in a wildfire, including an extensive collection of Billie's recordings. This was my first step back to remembering her, purchasing this wonderfully produced CD. I now consider it a treasured musical archive. If you love Lady Day, relax, and listen to this CD, and you will be entranced again, and again. Her gift to us, forever.


5 stars Absolutely the best of Billie Holiday
Anybody who likes Billie Holiday even part time needs this CD. Even great for those people who only know a few songs just by chance. Love the CD. Even got another as a gift for a friend.


5 stars Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
Bought this for my granddaughter. She's a Billie Holiday fan. She loved the CD.


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