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1. #BILLIE HOLIDAY REVERB LP LADY IN SATIN 3RD ISSUE CRACKED#
2. #BILLIE HOLIDAY REVERB LP LADY IN SATIN 3RD ISSUE PROFESSIONAL#

So, only the people involved know which is “right”, but to me, the new version totally lost the magic, even if the new speed can be shown to be “correct”…so what! I put on my old LP and the chills were back! I noticed the LP was much slower than the new re-mastering. I put on the disc and my heart was broken, I got none of the chills I used to get. I just bought the SACD of one of my most favorite recordings that I have heard since my childhood, Billy Holiday’s “Lady In Satin”. They sound cleaner but are they representative of the actual masters?īob Ludwig: It’s often hard to tell. The problem is that, as consumers, we are unable to differentiate what was the “original” sound as recorded in the studio vs. MusicTAP: We’re in an era where re-masters arrive by the boatload from whatever label’s ship that has just arrived in the harbour brings to us. NYC, 5 December 1957.FYI, this is an excerpt from an interview of Robert Ludwig (who was one the best vinyl mastering engineers): (3) Combo including Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins (ts) Doc Cheatham (t) Vic Dickinson (tb). (2) Combo featuring Harry (Sweets) Edison (t) Benny Carter (as) Jimmy Rowles (p). (1) I’m A Fool To Want You For Heaven’s Sake You Don’t Know What Love Is I Get Along Without You Very Well For All We Know Violets For Your Furs You’ve changed It’s Easy To Remember But Beautiful Glad To Be Unhappy I’ll Be Around The End Of A Love Affair (2) Prelude To A Kiss A Ghost Of A chance Gone With The Wind Come Rain Or Come Shine What’s New (3) Fine And Mellow (73.26) It is nowhere near Billie’s best but it is, I believe, a great (if flawed) jazz record and deserves to be in every serious collection. The heavenly choir is a distraction but you can’t have everything. Barnes & Noble has the best selection of Blues & Folk Blues Vinyl LPs. Stream songs including 'Im a Fool to Want You', 'For Heavens Sake' and more. Maybe it was never that but it was a moving, powerful performance by a woman who suffered greatly but never gave up or sold an audience short. Listen to Lady in Satin (The Centennial Edition) by Billie Holiday on Apple Music. She loved this record and thought it one of her best.

#BILLIE HOLIDAY REVERB LP LADY IN SATIN 3RD ISSUE PROFESSIONAL#

Billie stretched what was left of her voice over these 12 standards with professional determination and plenty of jazz style and the orchestra helped her every step of the way.

Johnson or Urbie Green on trombone, Janet Putnam’s harp, Phil Bodner’s bass clarinet and Mel Davis’s trumpet. Listen out also for those sympathetically melancholy interjections from the likes of J.J. It is instructive to listen carefully to the way Billie pours everything (and she didn’t have an awful lot left) into interpreting these songs as the orchestra wraps around her with great skill and big orchestra expertise. Billie lives the words of every song, painfully but emotionally and she is superbly backed by the sympathetic Ellis orchestra. As Sally says she didn’t lose an ounce of her emotional impact and range.

#BILLIE HOLIDAY REVERB LP LADY IN SATIN 3RD ISSUE CRACKED#

Although Billie’s voice was cracked and strained throughout and you can hear it on every selection, the ravaged voice puts across the pain, sorrow, lost-love feeling, hurt and jazz feel of every note of every song. As a teenager in the early ’30s, Holiday honed her singing talents in Harlem nightclubs.

For these delightful six minutes alone I would most likely prefer this disc, but punters will make their own minds up.Īs to the main event here, the Satin disc, I find myself out of step with many commentators. Born Eleanora Fagan, Billie Holiday took her stage name from actress Billie Dove and her father, musician Clarence Holiday. The bonus tracks here end with a really strong six-minute reading of Fine And Mellow in early stereo and Billie on good form with the luxury of solos by Lester, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and Doc Cheatham. varer Kmpe K-pop udvalg Alt i vinyl, CD, film Fragt fra kun 29 kr. 7 'Strange Fruit' originated as a poem written by the Jewish-American writer, teacher and songwriter Abel Meeropol, under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, as a protest against lynchings. Whatever its merits and flaws, there is no doubt that the 180 gram vinyl Lady in Satin is one of Billie Holiday's most poignant recordings ever, and a true jazz classic. On the other hand this release includes some sterling performances by Billie, with voice more or less intact and in her ideal habitat accompanied by the likes of Benny Carter, Lester Young, Harry Edison, Doc Cheatham and Vic Dickinson. Poem and song edit Meeropol cited this photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930, as inspiring his poem. That set included the LP made the following year by Billie with the Ellis orchestra and for that reason many will prefer it over this one as it provides the complete 1958/59 Lady In Satin sessions. A CD of the same title on American Jazz Classics was recently released and reviewed for JJ by Sally Evans-Darby.