Billie Holiday is considered the world’s greatest jazz singer, impossible to imitate but hugely influential. Born into poverty, she worked as a young girl in a brothel where she heard the recordings of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong and developed her own singing style. With a small voice and limited range, she could put more emotion into a song and swing it harder with her phrasing than more gifted vocalists. Her early recordings can make you weep, and as she aged prematurely from heroin addiction, alcohol, and abusive relationships, her voice lost much of its elasticity but none of its emotion.
Promoter John Hammond discovered and recorded her with Benny Goodman in 1933 and Teddy Wilson in 1935. After a brief stint with the Basie band in 1937,...
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AMERICA'S MUSIC LEGACY - Blues
Composers:
Adams, Carl B. -- Andrews, Ernie -- Chatman, Peter 'Memphis Slim' -- Cox, Jimmie -- Dixon, Willie -- Feather, Leonard -- Grainger, Porter -- Handy, W.C. -- Holiday, Billie -- Johnson, Pete -- King, B. B. -- McGhee, Brownie -- Otis, Johnny -- Parrish, Avery -- Robbins, Everett -- Rogers, Jimmy -- Turner, Big Joe -- Vinson, Eddie 'Cleanhead' -- Walker, T-Bone -- Williams, Joe
Artists:
Andrews, Ernie -- Clement, Addie -- Crayton, Pee Wee -- Donegan, Dorothy -- Galloway, Leata -- Guy, George Buddy -- Hopkins, Linda -- Kelly, Paula -- King, B. B. -- McGhee, Brownie -- Phillips, Esther -- Redd, Vi -- Vinson, Eddie 'Cleanhead' -- Wells, Junior -- Williams, Joe
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