Billie Holiday, originally named Eleanora Fagan, keeps on rearing modern generations with her classic jazz standards. The amalgam of her fragile voice, her distinct delivery and a unique manner of moving the story along makes a genius out of her. It’s just impossible to forget her unique harmonies, as well as her magic performances. So it was determined to create a compilation of three CDs, which will congregate the best of her performances. The CDs were released on February 1.
On the whole, these CDs contain 53 famous jazz songs and belong to vocal jazz style. The CD series are called “Forever Lady Day” as Billie is also known as Lady Day, who will remain in the history of jazz music forever.
The 53 famous jazz songs are covered by such jazz artists, as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, Ian Moss, Nina Simone, Willie Nelson, John Mayer, Michael Bolton, Michael Bublé and so on.
These three CDs contain famous jazz songs like “Strange Fruit,” “Georgia On My Mind,” “I Love You Porgy,” “Lover Man,” “Ain’t Nobody’s Business,” “Prelude To A Kiss,” “You’re Driving Me Crazy,” “When your lover has gone,” “All Of Me,” as well as her own renowned hits: “What A Little Moonlight Can Do,” “Walking Through Heaven With You,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It” and so on.
Billie could not merely pass along “Georgia On My Mind,” a wonderful song about the state of Georgia and the most emotional among the famous jazz songs. If Michael Bublé and Alicia Keys give this song a fresh breath and a new generation spirit, Billie Holiday gives the spirit of her time, and we experience the original feel of this song.
By the way, in 1942, Holiday’s version of “Lover man” peaked at number five on the R&B chart. Her version was also included in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989.
Holiday belongs to the class of those jazz artists, who never pass away.
Forever Lady Day! Good music is living forever.
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