Billie Holiday – Body And Soul (LP Vinyl)
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Recorded just two years before her death, this session captured Holiday at a moment when her voice had taken on the weathered, knowing quality that made her later work so devastating. Where her earlier recordings traded in youthful clarity, the Holiday of 1957 brought something harder to teach: a lifetime's worth of phrasing, timing, and emotional truth that no technical limitation could diminish.
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in tip-on jacket. Small jazz groups brought out the best in Billie Holiday - especially groups as good as the one heard on this classic 1957 recording. Ben Webster, Harry "Sweets" Edison and the other members of this stellar ensemble were not just gifted soloists but sensitive accompanists as well. Lady Day was rarely more ably supported than she was on this program of sturdy standards, including three gems by the Gershwin brothers - and she rarely sounded more luminous.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 602465124552
Label: Verve
Release Date: 6.14.24
Format: LP Vinyl