Lady Sings The Blues - 180 Gram | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Tracklist
A1        Trav'lin Light
Written-By – Johnny Mercer, James Osborne "Trummy" Young*
Written-By [Uncredited] – Jimmy Mundy
3:10
A2        I Must Have That Man!
Written-By – Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh
3:06
A3        Some Other Spring
Written-By – Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Wilson Kitchings*
3:39
A4        Lady Sings The Blues
Written-By – Billie Holiday, Herbert Horatio "Herbie" Nichols*
3:44
A5        Strange Fruit
Written-By – Lewis Allen*
3:04
A6        God Bless The Child
Written-By – Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday
4:00
B1        Good Morning Heartache
Written-By – Dan Fisher, Ervin Drake, Irene Higginbotham
3:32
B2        No Good Man
Written-By – Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham, Sammy Gallop
3:18
B3        Love Me Or Leave Me
Written-By – Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson
2:34
B4        Too Marvelous For Words
Written-By – Johnny Mercer, Richard Whiting
2:12
B5        Willow Weep For Me
Written-By – Ann Ronell
3:06
B6        I Thought About You
Written-By – Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer
2:46
B7        P.S I Love You
Written-By – Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Jazz Wax Records
Copyright © – Jazz Wax Records
Recorded At – Fine Sound
Bass – Aaron Bell (tracks: A1 to B2)
Bass Tuba – Red Callender (tracks: B3 to B7)
Clarinet – Tony Scott (2) (tracks: A1 to B2)
Drums – Lennie McBrowne* (tracks: A1 to B2)
Executive-Producer – Norman Granz, Richard Seidel
Guitar – Barney Kessel (tracks: B3 to B7), Kenny Burrell (tracks: A1 to B2)
Liner Notes – John Chilton
Photography By – Herman Leonard
Piano – Bobby Tucker (tracks: B3 to B7)
Tenor Saxophone – Paul Quinichette (tracks: A1 to B2)
Trumpet – Charlie Shavers (tracks: A1 to B2), Harry "Sweet" Edison* (tracks: B3 to B7)
DMM record.

Personnel: Billie Holiday (vocals); Budd Johnson, Paul Quinichette (tenor saxophone); Charlie Shavers (trumpet); Tony Scott (clarinet, piano); Wynton Kelly, Billy Taylor (piano); Billy Bauer, Kenny Burrell (guitar); Aaron Bell, Leonard Gaskin (bass); Cozy Cole, Lennie McBrowne (drums). Producers: Leroy Lovett, Tony Scott. Compilation producer: Michael Lang. Recorded at Fine Sound and William And Maely Dufty's Home, New York, New York between February 1955 and June 1956. Includes liner notes by John Chilton. Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (Polygram Studios). Contains 20 tracks. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Some Holiday fans embrace the very weariness and faults of her late recordings that others find heartbreaking and disappointing. These sessions from 1955 and 1956 clearly show the results of a life marked by alcohol and drug abuse, horrific love affairs and racism. On such cuts as "Too Marvelous For Words" the contrast between the lyrics and Holiday's heavy-heartedness is disconcerting. But the juxtaposition works on "I Must Have That Man," where Holiday's interpretations seem to be saying that even good love is tragic. The lynching depicted in "Strange Fruit" is certainly made even more powerful and harrowing by Holiday's slow, wrenching delivery. In 1959, Holiday would die with 70 cents in her bank account. LADY SINGS THE BLUES is the soundtrack for those final, troubled years.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: JAZZ
• RSD Date: DDD
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 04/06/2010