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Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
:Album Description:Lady Day: The Best Of Billie Holiday is an ideal introduction to the Voice of Jazz in all its enduring glory. This incomparable collection draws on the 10-CD boxed set Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (CXK 85470), representing not only her finest work, but American jazz and pop singing at its zenith. Accompanied sublimely by a Who's Who of the Swing Era (including her soulmate Lester Young, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Buck Clayton, Roy ...
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The Notebook
:Album Description:Based on the best selling novel by Nicholas Sparks ('A Walk To Remember', 'Message In A Bottle'), 'The Notebook' is the story of Noah and Allie, teenage lovers torn apart by WWII and Allie's parents' demands to marry a respectable lawyer. After 14 years apart, they meet again and rekindle their true love. Starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, and Gena Rowlands. The soundtrack is a propelling force. In addition to classic WWII era pieces, Aaron Zigman's ...
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Remixed & Reimagined
: : Hot on the heels of Nina Simone's like-minded project, this 14-track disk takes Billie Holiday's masterful and mourning vocals of 1935 to 1958 to the 21st-century digital dance floor, courtesy of some resourceful remixers and DJs from Swingsett & Takuya and Nickodemus & Zeb to Organica and Poppyseed. You have to give these aural alchemists credit for their daring, but some tracks work better than others. The best include 'Spreadin’ Rhythm Around,' featuring Digable Planet's Ladybug Mecca, the ...
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Love Songs
: essential recording:Culled from the Columbia Records reissue packages, variously released under the multivolume Quintessential Billie Holiday umbrella, this package goes straight for the love songs, the heart of Holiday. Ranging from such playful lyrics as 'Let's Do It' and 'Them There Eyes' to such essential Holiday as 'You Go to My Head,' 'The Very Thought of You,' and 'Easy Living,' this set is guaranteed to keep the home fires burning brightly. Lay this one on your lover next ...
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billie Holiday
:Album Description:The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being 'green.'To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the ...
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I Get A Kick Out Of You: Cole Porter Songbook Vol. 2
:Album Description:The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being 'green.'To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the ...
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Lady in Satin
:Album Description:Limited 'Millennium Edition' reissue of classic 1958 album in a deluxe heavyweight miniaturized LP sleeve complete with inner sleeve and a Japanese-style obi strip on the spine. 12 tracks. Individually numbered. 1999 release. essential recording:A harrowing classic, Billie Holiday's personal favorite among her '50s albums captures the singer 17Â months before her death, her once honeyed voice, scarred and weakened from punishing life, its ravages highlighted by the 1958 session's crisp sonics and the contrasting 'satin' of Ray ...
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Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles
:Album Description:Billie Holiday's story is so huge, her artistry so vast, and her impact so incalculable, that even attempting to corral a representative sampling of it within a single collection of recordings is an overwhelming, perhaps foolhardy task. Many have tried, of course, and literally hundreds of options of varying quality and legitimacy, scattered across dozens of labels, are available to the consumer. Neophytes, or those not willing to commit to a gargantuan listening session, can settle for any ...
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Billie Holiday: The Complete Decca Recordings
: essential recording:Holiday recorded for Decca between 1944 and 1950, a period in which she was at the heights of both her popularity and her vocal powers. The music is less jazz-oriented in its backing than were the earlier Columbia and Commodore or later Verve recordings, but these are superb vocal performances, including matchless renderings of 'Lover Man,' 'Don't Explain,' and 'Solitude.' Holiday achieved the highest level that torch singing has ever known, creating consummately expressive, almost etched renditions ...
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A Musical Romance
:Album Description: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 ...
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