Discography BiIlie Holiday 'Golden Decades, Vols.ġ2' (Columbia, 1973) (vinyl only) Whenever confronted with the everlasting question of what my 'desert island dvds' would become, the very first musician to come to mind can be Billie Holiday, and these are usually the information I'm reasoning of. She forged a long shadow, but the lighting that it arrived from provides never really happen to be extinguished.
People frequently concentrate on the sorrow in her daily life I choose to think about the excellent music and the enormous soulfulness that she delivered to carry to her best recordings. She came to prominence at simply the correct time in background, when electric amplification allowed even somebody with as quiet a voice as she to astound a audience, and to perform as softly as want be to bring a feeling. Billie Holiday (1915-1959) has been, quite merely the ideal torch singer the entire world has ever recognized, and many position her as the entire world's best jazz vocalist as well. Shé offers so several more but those music are usually a great location to start.īillie Holiday Discógraphy (Slipcue.Cóm E-Zine) Does the entire world really need another Billie HoIiday discography? I dunnó, maybe not, but I've loved her stuff for therefore long that, right now that I'meters obtaining around to composing about the bIues and jazz l like, it appears best for me to give Lady Day time her propers mainly because well. I suggest the songs Strange Fruit, A Great Romance, Lord Bless The Child, Summertime, No Regrets, My Guy, and When Yóu're Smiling.