Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: CD
Price:
9.99
Lady In Satin (1958) is Billie’s penultimate album completed in her lifetime.
Produced by Irving Townsend, and engineered by Fred Plaut, its sound is sensuous, rich and swelling with emotion – though much criticized by Lady’s fans who had grown to enjoy her recordings with deft jazz combos earlier in the decade.
The song material for Lady in Satin derived from the Great American Songbook, but was unlike the bulk of Holiday’s recordings. This time she came with the backdrop of full orchestral arrangements, something she’d not tried since her Decca years in the 1940’s when recording fidelity was yet to deliver the aching strings and solemn horn sections that cradle and warm Billie’s vocal delivery on “Satin”. She wanted to record in the contemporary manner of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald on her famous Verve Songbook series. She succeeded and perhaps surpassed.
Lady In Satin was inducted into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame in 2000.
Personnel: Billie Holiday vocal, Ray Ellis arranger and conductor, George Ockner violin and concertmaster, David Soyer cello, Janet Putnam harp, Danny Bank flute, Phil Bodner flute, Romeo Penque flute, Mel Davis trumpet, J.J. Johnson trombone, Urbie Green trombone, Tom Mitchell trombone, Mal Waldron piano, Barry Galbraith guitar, Milt Hinton bass, Osie Johnson drums, Elise Bretton & Miriam Workman, backing vocals.
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: CD
Price:
9.99
Billie Holiday's Columbia years are considered her finest, as demonstrated on this collection of her best-known performances. "Body and Soul", "The Way You Look Tonight", "Easy Living" and "My Man" all showcase the singer's unique bluesy style.
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: CD
Price:
9.99
Romeo and Juliet...Eloise and Abelard...Tracy and Hepburn. These are among history's great romantic relationships, but perhaps the deepest of all romances - in all of American music, at any rate - was the one that was carried on in the recording studio between Billie Holiday (1915-1959) and Lester Young (1910-1959). "Lady Day" and "The President" (they gave one another their nicknames) made a series of "sides," as they were called in those days, that to this day absolutely define love in tune. She was - and is - the greatest of all jazz vocalists. His tenor saxophone style delivered the real Birth of the Cool.
Together, they sang and played with an unparalleled sense of intimacy, warmth, and sensuous, behind-the-beat swing, whether the melody was pure gold (like "The Man I Love," "Time On My Hands") or closer to brass ("When You're Smiling," "Back In Your Own Backyard"). Originally produced by the redoubtable John Hammond, and intended first and foremost for jukeboxes, these sixteen seminal performances have been culled from the GRAMMY®-winning 10-CD boxed set Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, 1933-1944.
They also feature vital contributions from, among others, pianist-arranger Teddy Wilson, who served as leader on many of Holiday's record dates, Swing era superstar clarinetist Benny Goodman, ace trumpeter Buck Clayton (Young's cohort from Count Basie's definitive swing band), the sublime Ellington-ian alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges, and Roy Eldridge, little giant of the trumpet. But Lady Day and Pres, forever dancing in the dark, make this a musical romance that will never die.
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: Merchandise
Price:
15.00
• A Billie Holiday enamel pin (1.5”), designed by Loyal Pin Co. in Nashville, Tennessee
• Presented on a keepsake woodblock printed backing card, featuring the official Billie Holiday/Lady Day signature logo
• Pin features Billie Holiday in her iconic singing pose with her legendary gardenia and the official Billie Holiday signature logo
• Ideal for lapels, scarves, hats or cork board displays
• Great gift for any jazz fan
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: Apparel
Price:
25.00
• A black unisex t-shirt with full color print
• Features Billie Holiday in her iconic singing pose with her legendary gardenia and the official Billie Holiday signature logo
• Next Level shirt: fabric laundered, 4.3 oz., 100% combed ringspun cotton
• Unisex sizes: XS-3XL
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: Apparel
Price:
28.00
• A desert pink women's "hi-lo" t-shirt with full color print
• Features Billie Holiday's name set against a gardenia, a flower synonymous with her music and legacy.
• Next Level shirt: lightweight fabric laundered, 4.3 oz., 100% combed ringspun cotton
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: Apparel
Price:
25.00
• A white unisex t-shirt with full color print
• Features Billie Holiday in her iconic singing pose with her legendary gardenia and the official Lady Day signature logo
• Next Level shirt: fabric laundered, 4.3 oz., 100% combed ringspun cotton
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: Apparel
Price:
24.00
• A white women's t-shirt with full color print.
• Features Billie Holiday's signature portrait
• Next Level shirt: fabric laundered, 4.3 oz., 100% combed ringspun cotton
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: Apparel
Price:
25.00
• Printed on Bella + Canvas 100% Cotton (Back)
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: CD
Price:
9.99
Billie Holiday's distinctive and groundbreaking vocal approach changed the face of jazz, soul and pop music in the 20th century. Now, on the eve of her 100th birthday (April 7, 1915), Billie Holiday: The Centennial Collection will offer the definitive single-disc chronicle of her career.
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: Vinyl
Price:
19.99
Lady In Satin (1958) is Billie’s penultimate album completed in her lifetime.
Produced by Irving Townsend, and engineered by Fred Plaut, its sound is sensuous, rich and swelling with emotion – though much criticized by Lady’s fans who had grown to enjoy her recordings with deft jazz combos earlier in the decade.
The song material for Lady in Satin derived from the Great American Songbook, but was unlike the bulk of Holiday’s recordings. This time she came with the backdrop of full orchestral arrangements, something she’d not tried since her Decca years in the 1940’s when recording fidelity was yet to deliver the aching strings and solemn horn sections that cradle and warm Billie’s vocal delivery on “Satin”. She wanted to record in the contemporary manner of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald on her famous Verve Songbook series. She succeeded and perhaps surpassed.
Lady In Satin was inducted into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame in 2000.
Personnel: Billie Holiday vocal, Ray Ellis arranger and conductor, George Ockner violin and concertmaster, David Soyer cello, Janet Putnam harp, Danny Bank flute, Phil Bodner flute, Romeo Penque flute, Mel Davis trumpet, J.J. Johnson trombone, Urbie Green trombone, Tom Mitchell trombone, Mal Waldron piano, Barry Galbraith guitar, Milt Hinton bass, Osie Johnson drums, Elise Bretton & Miriam Workman, backing vocals.
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: Merchandise
Price:
20.00
• 15 oz. Stoneware Magna coffee mug.
• Size: 4-1/2" H (3-5/16" Diameter, 3-5/16" Diameter at base)
• High-gloss stoneware. Microwave and dishwasher safe.
Vendor: Billie Holiday
Type: CD
Price:
9.99
A greatest hits compilation consisting of some of most beloved classics released on Sony/Columbia.