How am I to know (CD)
How am I to know
Billie Holiday (performer)
Vocale jazz
Trav'lin' light
Billie Holiday (zang)
Do nothin' till you hear from me
He's funny that way
Lover come back to me
Billie's blues
That old devil called love
Billie Holiday 1915-1959 (zang)
Past Perfect, 2002
JFX6670
73 - Jazz (NBLC) J1 - Jazz (Flemish music schema)
0 time in Flemish libraries
About Billie Holiday
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), known professionally as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music singer with a career spanning 26 years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.
After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who commended her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset…Read more on Wikipedia
Work of Billie Holiday in the library
The last albums
Billie's best
The complete Decca recordings
The quintessence : New York - Los Angeles - Boston 1947-1959
Classic lady day
The complete Billie Holiday song book
The unforgettable Lady Day
What a little moonlight can do
On the sentimental side
There is no greater love
April in my heart
The mood that I'm in