Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues - 38002

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Lady Sings The Blues (Clear Vinyl)

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Release Date: 30 April 2015

Label: Jazz Wax

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Barcode: 8436028696802

Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz

Release Date: 30 June 2016

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Barcode: 8437012830615

Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz

Release Date: 11 February 2022

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Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

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Barcode: 8436563183324

Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz

Release Date: 30 August 2016

Label: Jazz Images

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Release Date: 12 November 2021

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Release Date: 11 February 2022

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Barcode: 8436559464444

Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz

Release Date: 30 January 2026

Label: Waxtime Clear Vinyl

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Barcode: 8435723702023

Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz

Description
Billie Holiday's 'Lady Sings The Blues' plus 1 bonus track pressed on limited edition 180g blue coloured vinyl. Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton and Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.

"Billie Holiday is an important artist in the time of Black Lives Matter. Her voice and her songs are a permanent reminder that the second act of American life doesn't just have to balance the first; it has to redress it, too. And that is more than a comeback." - Penguin Guide To Jazz

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"Lady Sings the Blues" is the name of the Billie Holiday album presented here, as well as the record’s title track. It was even used as the title of the singer’s autobiography, which she presented shortly before the making of this amazing LP. The album placed Lady Day in the company of celebrated jazz stars, such as Charlie Shavers, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Paul Quinichette, Wynton Kelly, Barney Kessel, and Kenny Burrell, and received a five-star rating in Down Beat. “Lady Sings the Blues, I understand, was a rather stormy session in its first eight tracks”, wrote Nat Hentoff, “but to a listener who wasn’t there, it comes through as a characteristic, satisfyingly troubling, indelible Billie monologue. Tempos are generally slow with some walking-medium. No other singer now in jazz gets so fully into the bloodstream as Billie still does. Billie still has the best vocal game in town when she’s playing for keeps.”

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180g vinyl LP reissue of Billie Holiday's 'Lady Sings the Blues' + bonus CD digipak included containing the complete album plus 9 bonus tracks.

"Lady Sings the Blues, I understand, was a rather stormy session in its first eight tracks; but to a listener who wasn't there, it comes through as a characteristic, satisfyingly troubling, indelible Billie monologue. Tempos are generally slow with some walking-medium. No other singer now in jazz gets so fully into the bloodstream as Billie still does...Billie still has the best vocal game in town when she's playing for keeps. Note, for example, the remarkably effective, understated "I Thought About You" on which Billie is backed only by Bobby Tucker." - Nat Hentoff

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Billie Holiday's 'Lady Sings The Blues', limited edition 180g yellow vinyl edition.

"Lady Sings The Blues comes through as a characteristic, satisfyingly troubling, indelible Billie monologue. No other singer in jazz gets so fully into the bloodstream as Billie does," - Nat Hentoff, DownBeat Magazine.

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The complete album + bonus track - limited edition pressing on 180g crystal clear vinyl.
The recordings included on the classic Billie Holiday album Lady Sings the Blues come from two different studio dates, a complete session recorded in 1956, and four tunes from an earlier 1954 date. An additional track from the latter session has been added here as a bonus. The emphasis on both sessions was placed purely on Billie Holiday's singing, leaving little room for instrumental improvisation. However, the assembled cast of topflight musicians provided a superb backdrop accompaniment to Holiday's impassioned vocals.
Includes the bonus track "P.S. I Love You", from the same 1954 session but not included on the original LP.
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