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- SKU: ACQCD7049
- Format: CD
- UPC: 824046704926
- Street Date: 11/06/12
- PreBook Date: 10/02/12
- Label: Acrobat »
- Genre: Blues
- Run Time: 280:00 mins
- Number of Discs: 4
- Year of Production: 2012
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
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Billie Holiday - The Billie Holiday Collection 1935-42
This anthology brings some of the definitive songs of one of the leading vocalists of the 20th century
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Following our Ella Fitzgerald Collection last month, we have pulled together a similar anthology for one of the other definitive jazz vocalists of the 20th century, Billie Holiday. Along with Ella and other contemporaries like Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday was one of the great singers to emerge from the golden age of jazz singing as a premier exponent of an art form which often crossed over into the popular music world, although this crossover very rarely compromised the artistic integrity we associate them. This collection traces an important seven years of her early recording career which built the platform for the huge commercial success she enjoyed during the mid to late 40s, before she began to succumb to the lifestyle which eventually destroyed her. It contains recordings with Teddy Wilson, Count Basie and Artie Shaw's bands, as well as her own orchestra, and featuring musicians like her close associate Lester Young, and demonstrates her unique and unmistakable way of interpreting the songs. It is a fascinating and beguiling musical journey
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