| Billie Holiday
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You are bidding on a Limited Brand new and packaged 4 CD - bookbox with super music of Billie Holiday and with the good old shellac time.
Recorded with many well-known pieces in super quality and original. In this compilation very rare to find. I could listen to these CD's over and over again.
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Inclusive booklet with rare pictures and biography about the life and music of the FIRST LADY OF THE BLUES. (Incl. Booklet)
BILLIE HOLIDAY
Stormy Weather
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CD 1
1. Be Fair With My Baby 6,40
2. Rocky Mountain Blues 2,02
3. Detour Ahead 2,36
4. Trav'lin 'Light 3,04
5. Blue Moon 3,31
6. Easy To Love 3,02
7. Yesterdays 2,50
8. Autumn In New York 3,43
9. Lover Come Back To Me 3,37
10. Remember 2,37
11. Stormy Weather 3,44
12. Love For Sale 2,58
13. How Deep Is The Ocean 2,59
14. Solitude 3,31
15. Too Marvellous For Words 2,13
16. Easy To Love 2,59
CD 2
1. PS I Love You 3,37
2. Willow Weep For Me 3,08
3. Say It Is not So 3,04
4. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 3,58
5. I Wished On The Moon 6,50
6. Always 3,59
7. Everything Happens To Me 6,23
8. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 5,02
9. Is not Misbehavin ' 4,41
10. Nice Work If You Can Get It 3,52
11. Gone With The Wind 3,25
12. Please Do not Talk About Me When I'm Gone 4,21
13. Cheek To Cheek 3,56
14. I Had not Anyone Till You 4,05
15. I Get A Kick Out Of You 5,41
16. A Fine Romance 3,32
CD 3
1. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 5,53
2. Trav'lin 'Light 3,10
3. I Must Have That Man! 3,05
4. Some Other Spring 3,38
5. Lady Sings The Blues 3,46
6. Strange Fruit 3,04
7. God Bless The Child 3,59
8. Good Morning Heartache 3,31
9. No Good Man 3,20
10. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 4,15
11. Prelude To A Kiss 5,36
12. Cheek To Cheek 3,36
13. Ill Wind 6,16
14. Sophisticated Lady 4,51
15. Speak Low 4,27
16. All Or Nothing At All 5,38 (Preview / hear sample)
CD 4
1. Narration 2,52
2. Lady Sings The Blues 2,38
3. Is not Nobody's Business 2,30
4. With Narration (Vocal Trav'lin 'Light) 0,44
5. Narration 2,07
6. Please Do not Talk About Me When I'm Gone 1,44
7. I'll Be Seeing You 2,18
8. I Love My Man 3,18
9. Body And Soul 2,40
10. Narration 0,55
11. Do not Explain 2,25
12. Yesterdays 1,10
13. Narration 2,50
14. My Man 3,12
15. I Cried For You 3,09
16. Fine And Mellow 3,14
17. I Cover The Waterfront 3,45
18. What A Little Moonlight Can Do 2,43
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan and later nicknamed Lady Day (see "Jazz royalty" Regarding similar nicknames), what an American jazz singer, a seminal influence on jazz and pop singers, and gene rally Regarded as one of the greatest female jazz vocalists.
Early life
Billie Holiday had a difficult childhood, Which greatly affected her life and career. Much of her childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, published in 1956. This account is Known to many inaccuracies containment.
Her professional pseudonym from Billie Dove taken what, to actress she admired, and Clarence Holiday, her probable father. At the outset of her career, she spelled her last name "Halliday," presumably to distance herself from her neglectful father, but Eventually changed it back to "Holiday."
Holiday's grandfather what one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner. There are conflicting reports about Whether her thirteen-year-old mother, Sadie Fagan, and fifteen-year-old father, Clarence Holiday, ever married, but If They did, They did not live together for any significant period. Clarence Holiday Played guitar and banjo professionally and joined jazz bandleader Fletcher Henderson in the early 1930s, so hey what on the road much of the time and what apparently not a family man.
There is some controversy Regarding Holiday's paternity, stemming from a copy of her birth certificate in the Baltimore archives lists the father did as a "Frank DeViese". Some historians Consider this an anomaly, Probably inserted by a hospital or government worker. On the infrequent occasions did she did see him, Billie would extort money from her father by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend did he had a daughter.
Billie grew up in the poor section of Baltimore, Maryland. .According To her autobiography, her house was the first on Their street to have electricity. Her parents married When She Was three, But They soon divorced, leaving her to be raised by her mother and other Largely relative. At the age of 11, she did Reported She Had been raped. That claimsoft, combined with her frequent truancy, resulted in her being sent to The House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic reform school, in 1925. It was only through the assistance of a family friend did what she released two years later. Scarred by prosthesis experiences, Holiday Moved to New York City with her mother in 1928. In 1929 Holiday's mother Discovered a neighbor, Wilbert Rich, in the act of raping Billie; Rich what sentenced to three months in jail.
Early singing career
.According To Billie Holiday's accounts, which she Recruited by a brothel, worked as a prostitute, and what Eventually imprisoned for a short time. It was in Harlem in the early 1930s did she started singing for tips in various night clubs. .According To legend, penniless and facing eviction, she sang "Trav'lin All Alone" in a local club and Reduced the audience to tears. She later worked at various clubs for tips, Ultimately landing at Pod's and Jerry's, a wellknown Harlem jazz club. Her early work history is hard to verify, though accounts say she what working at a club named Monette's in 1933 When She Was Discovered by talent scout John Hammond.
Hammond Arranged for Holiday to make her recording debut on a 1933 Benny Goodman date, and Goodman what. So on hand in 1935 When She continued her recording career with a group led by pianist Teddy Wilson Their first collaboration included "What A Little Moonlight Can Do" and "Miss Brown To You", Which helped to Establish Billie Holiday as a major vocalist. She began recording under her own name a year later, producing a series of extraordinary performances with groups Comprising the Swing Era's finest musicians.
Among the musicians who frequently what tenor saxophonist Accompanied ago Lester Young, who Had been a boarder at her mother's house in 1934 and with splat she had a special rapport. "Well, I think you can hear that on some of the old records, you know. Some time I'd sit down and listen to 'em myself, and it sound like two of the same voices, if you do not be careful , you know, or the same mind, or something like that. " Young nicknamed her "Lady Day" and she, in turn, dubbed him "Prez." In the late 1930s, so She Had letter stints as a big band vocalist with Count Basie (1937) and Artie Shaw (1938). The Latter association Placed forth among the first black women to work with a white orchestra, to arrangement did went against the temper of the times. Billie's Blues, a biography by British jazz historian John Chilton, details this period of her life.
The Commodore Years and "Strange Fruit"
Holiday what recording for Columbia in the late 1930s When She Was Introduced to "Strange Fruit," a song based on a poem about lynching written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx. Meeropol Used the pseudonym "Lewis Allen" for the poem, set to music and what Which Performed at teachers' union meetings. It was heard by Barney Josephson Eventually, proprietor of Café Society, to integrated nightclub in Greenwich Village, who Introduced it to Holiday. She Performed it at the club in 1939, with some trepidation, fearing retaliation Possible. Holiday later said that the imagery in "Strange Fruit" Reminded her of her father's death, and did this played a role in her persistence to perform it. In a 1958 interview, that she bemoaned the fact so that many people did not grasp the song's message: "They'll ask me to 'sing that sexy song about the people swinging'," she said.
When her Producers at Columbia found the subject matter too sensitive, Commodore Records' Milt Gabler Agreed to record it for his label. That was done in April, 1939 and "Strange Fruit" Remained in her repertoire for twenty years. She later recorded it again for Verve. While the Commodore release did not get airplay, the controversial song sold well, but did Gabler attributes mostly to the record's other side, "Fine and Mellow," which was a juke box hit.
Decca Records and "Lover Man"
In addition to owning Commodore Records, Milt Gabler what to A & R man for Decca Records, and he signed Holiday to the label in 1944. Her first recording for Decca, "Lover Man," was a song written Especially for her by Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, and Jimmy Sherman. Awdough its lyrics describe a woman who Has Never Known love ("I long to try something I never had"), its theme - a woman longing for a missing lover - and its refrain, "Lover man, oh, where can you be? "struck a chord in America and the wait time record Became one of her biggest hits.
Holiday continued to record for Decca Until 1950, Including sessions with the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras, and two duets with Louis Armstrong. Holiday's Decca recordings featured big bands and, sometimes, strings, contrasting her intimate small group Columbia accompaniments. Some of the songs from her Decca repertoire Became signatures, Including "Do not Explain" and "Good Morning Heartache".
Later life
Her personal life was as turbulent as the songs she sang. Holiday Stated did she began using hard drugs in the early 1940s. She married trombonist Jimmy Monroe on August 25, 1941. While quietly married to Monroe, she Took up with trumpeter Joe Guy, her drug dealer, as his common law wife. She finally divorced Monroe in 1947 and therefore split with Guy. In 1947 she jailed on drug charges and what served eight months at the Alderson Federal Correctional Institution for Women in West Virginia. Her New York City Cabaret Card which subsequently revoked, Which kept her from working in clubs there for the remaining 12 years of her life, except When She Played at the Ebony Club in 1948 where she opened under the permission of John Levy.
By the 1950s, Holiday's drug abuse, drinking, and relations with abusive men led to deteriorating health. Her voice coarsened and did not project the vibrance it once did. HOWEVER, she Seemed to stand as a prime Example of the struggling artist, and projected A Certain bittersweet dignity. [Citation needed]
On March 28, 1952, Holiday married Louis McKay, failed to opportunistic pimp. McKay, like most of the men in her life, what abusive, but he did try to get her off drugs. Theywere separated at the time of her death, but McKay Had plans to start a chain of Billie Holiday vocal studios, à la Arthur Murray dance schools the. Holiday thus had a relationship with Orson Welles.
Her late recordings on Verve Constitute about a third of her commercial recorded legacy and are as well remembered as her Earlier work for the Columbia, Commodore and Decca labels. In later years her voice Became more fragile, but it never lost the edge did Had always made it so distinctive. On November 10, 1956, she Performed before a packed audience at Carnegie Hall, a major accomplishment for any artist, Especially a black artist of the segregated period of American history. Her performance of "Fine And Mellow" on CBS's The Sound of Jazz program is memorable for her interplay with her long-time friend Lester Young; Both werewolf less than two years from death.
Holiday first toured Europe in 1954 as part of a Leonard Feather package did so included Buddy DeFranco and Red Norvo. When she returned, almost five years later, she made one of her television appearances for Granada's load "Chelsea at Nine," in London. Her final studio recordings werewolf made for MGM in 1959, with lush backing from Ray Ellis and his Orchestra, who Had so Accompanied her on Columbia's Lady in Satin album the previous year - see below). The MGM sessions werewolf released posthumously on a self-titled album, later re-titled and re-released as Last Recordings. Her final public appearance, a benefit concert at the Phoenix Theater in New York's Greenwich Village, Took place on May 25, 1959. According to de evening's masters of ceremony, jazz critic Leonard Feather and TV host Steve Allen, roomy which are only able to make it through two songs, one End of month what "Is not Nobody's Business If I Do."
On May 31, 1959, she what taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York suffering from liver and heart disease. On July 12, which she placed under house arrest at the hospital for possession, despite evidence suggesting the drugs may have been planted on her. Holiday remained under police guard at the hospital until she died from cirrhosis of the liver on July 17 in 1959 at the age of 44. In the final years of her life, she had been progressively swindled out of her earnings, and she died with only $ 0.70 in the bank and $ 750 (a tabloid fee) on her person.
Billie Holiday is interred in Saint Raymond's Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
Impact
Her impact on other artists what undeniable, HOWEVER; even after her death she Continues to influence singers. In 1972, Diana Ross Portrayed ago in a movie loosely based on what did Lady Sings the Blues, the autobiography she co-authored with William Dufty. Awdough the Hollywood treatment strayed far from the true story, it was a commercial success and earned a Best Actress nomination Ms. Ross. In 1987, Billie Holiday what posthumously Awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, in 1994, the United States Service Introduced a Billie Holiday postage stamp, she ranked # 6 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock n 'Roll in 1999, and she what inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Over the years, there have been many recorded tributes to Billie Holiday, Including "Angel of Harlem," a 1988 release by the group U2.
Awdough her unique Style has never been successfully duplicated, Billie Holiday inspired many singers and Continues to be Regarded as one of the jazz idiom's mostimportant vocalists.
voice
Her distinct delivery made Billie Holiday's performances instantly Recognizable Throughout her career. Years of abuse Eventually altered the texture of her voice and gave it a prepossessing fragility, but the emotion she imbued with Which Each song Remained intact. [8]. Her load major recording, a 1958 album Lady in Satin Entitled, features the backing of a 40-piece orchestra Conducted and arranged by Ray Ellis, Who Said of the album in 1997:
I would say did the most emotional moment what her listening to the playback of "I'm a Fool to Want You." Therewere tears in her eyes ... After we finished the album I went into the control room and listened to all the takes. I must admit I was unhappy with her performance, but I was just listening musically instead of emotionally. It was not until i heard the final mix a few weeks later did I Realized how great her performance really something.
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