Billie Holiday Lady in Satin ( 180g vinyl LP )

Release date: 07-04-2011(originally released in 1958)

2011 EU reissue( 180g vinyl LP ) Lady In Satin is the last major recording of Billie Holiday that was released during her lifetime, and it is also the most controversial. Ray Ellis' arrangements seem like a harsh contrast to Holiday's broken and fragile voice. Ellis himself was, at first, disappointed by the quality of the recording. It was only after listening more closely that he realized the beauty of these sessions and understood why Billie ranked this album as her favorite. More than any of her other recordings, Lady In Satin calls for an emotional rather than a musical listening.

Tracks:
Side A
A1. I'm A Fool To Want You
A2. For Heaven's Sake
A3. You Don't Know What Love Is
A4. I Get Along Without You Very Well
A5. For All We Know
A6. Violets For Your Furs     
Side B
B1. You've Changed
B2. It's Easy To Remember
B3. But Beautiful
B4. Glad To Be Unhappy
B5. I'll Be Around

Billie Holiday is undeniably one of the most influential singers of the twentieth century. As the first vocalist to cite instruments – and especially the horns of Louis Armstrong and Lester Young – as her main inspiration, she was one of the most relentlessly individual singers of the jazz age, transforming silly Tin Pan Alley songs into jazz standards. But her biography also reads as one of the saddest tales of the modern age. Her talents came at a cost; the price seemed to be a predilection for bad men and an addiction to drugs.