Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers / 45RPM 2LP Analogue Productions

Jazz singer Billie Holiday sang as intensely as she lived. At just 44, 'Lady Day', as Lester Young called her, died after a life of violence and drugs, leaving behind a significant musical legacy.

With her bluesy, Bessie Smith-influenced voice, she changed the sound of American pop forever. She infused her songs with her personality, making them her own and breaking away from the

commercial, light fare of Tin Pan Alley. The result was a singing style that was unmistakable - an almost shocking fact in an age of interchangeable singers and bands. This recording is a prime

example of that development.There is no doubt that Holiday's voice changed in the 50s. It became darker, deeper, more expressive and at the same time so full of feeling that the songs went

straight to the heart of the listener. A six-day recording session in 1957 produced Songs for Distingue Lovers, a legendary album of six of the singer's finest songs. She is accompanied by an all-star

cast of Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Ben Webster, Jimmie Rowles, Joe Mondragon, Barney Kessel, Red Mitchell, Alvin Stoller and Larry Bunker.

Title

1. Day In Day Out

2. A Foggy Day

3. Stars Fell On Alabama

4. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

5. Just One Of Those Things

6. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was