Lady Sings the Blues

by Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues cover art

Released concurrently with her autobiography of the same name, 'Lady Sings the Blues' serves as a musical memoir, capturing Billie Holiday's performance in two distinct 1954 and 1956 sessions. Backed by notable jazz luminaries like Kenny Burrell, Wynton Kelly, and Charlie Shavers, Holiday's voice, though weathered by hardship, imparts a profound and raw emotional depth to the material. The album balances poignant re-recordings of signature songs like 'Strange Fruit' and 'God Bless the Child' with newly penned tracks, cementing its status as a definitive, autobiographical statement of her later career.

Genres

  • Vocal Jazz
  • Standards

Tracklist

  1. Lady Sings The Blues
  2. Trav'lin Light
  3. I Must Have That Man!
  4. Some Other Spring
  5. Strange Fruit
  6. No Good Man
  7. God Bless The Child
  8. Good Morning Heartache
  9. Love Me Or Leave Me
  10. Too Marvelous For Words
  11. Willow Weep For Me
  12. I Thought About You