Billie Holiday - Fine And Mellow (1979) {1985, Remastered}

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Title: Fine And Mellow
Year Of Release: 1979 / 1985
Label: Commodore / TELDEC #8.24055 / 8.24055 ZP
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing, Traditional Pop, Standarts
Quality: EAC Rip -> WavPack (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 00:46:06
Total Size: 177 / 157 Mb (Full Scans)
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Quintessential jazz singer whose reedy voice and laconic style made her a legend for the ages. The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylized reading of this blues tradition revolutionized traditional pop, ripping the decades-long tradition of song plugging in two by refusing to compromise her artistry for either the song or the band. She made clear her debts to Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong (in her autobiography she admitted, "I always wanted Bessie's big sound and Pops' feeling"), but in truth her style was virtually her own, quite a shock in an age of interchangeable crooners and band singers.

~ All Music

Track List:

01. Strange Fruit [0:03:10.38]
02. Strange Fruit [0:03:16.35]
03. Yesterdays [0:03:24.02]
04. Yesterdays [0:02:57.65]
05. Fine And Mellow [0:03:13.40]
06. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues [0:02:50.05]
07. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues [0:02:50.00]
08. How Am I To Know [0:02:41.70]
09. How Am I To Know [0:02:35.53]
10. My Old Flame [0:02:59.57]
11. My Old Flame [0:03:06.25]
12. I'll Get By [0:02:55.35]
13. I'll Get By [0:02:54.25]
14. I Cover The Waterfront [0:03:26.00]
15. I Cover The Waterfront [0:03:43.40]

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