Release Date: 07 April 2014
Label: Green Corner
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8436563182495
Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz
Description
Lady in Satin, presented here in both its Stereo and Mono versions, marked Billie Holiday's last big hit and her second to last album ever. It represents something close to her swan song. Although some live recordings made after that Columbia album exist, and she even made a second album with Ray Ellis for MGM, none of these documents were as enduring as Lady in Satin. Most jazz fans now consider Lady in Satin to be Holiday's last great effort. The Mono version appears here on CD in its entirety for the first time ever. Some of Billie's last live performances, among them her complete 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival concert and a 1959 set at the Storyville Club in Boston, have been added here as a bonus. In the late 1950s, it was common for big labels to record performances simultaneously in Mono and Stereo, and then releases both versions at the same time, with different reference numbers. This was explained at the time by the fact that Stereo was still a very recent innovation, and not everyone had sound systems capable of reproducing the new technology. The Stereo albums (CD 1), thus, were slightly more expensive than their Mono counterparts. Over time, the Mono versions (CD 2) were condemned to oblivion, and only recently some music fans have begun to value these long forgotten masters, which capture classic performances from a different aural point of view. On the present release, both versions of this masterpiece can be compared.
Tracklisting
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Cannonball Adderley & Miles Davis
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk Quartet
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Charles Mingus
Billie Holiday
Bill Evans & Jim Hall
Thelonious Monk Quartet
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
