5 comments about At Last!.

1. So glad I got this album! It's all here! Won't point out my fav cuts; if you're a blues/Etta lover you'll figure yours out - they're all there. If you're not(yet), this will be your epiphany - this stylist and the selections are astounding. [Note "Sunday Kind Of Love" and "Stormy Weather".]



2. The music quality had been fixed up,(do'nt know the word) to sound really great! I listened to the music when I was a teen, forty-five years ago. It sounded better now, even though I truly thought it was the best & loved the songs then!



3. This is one of the most pleasurable CDs on the market. This collection of Etta's songs showcases her considerable talent as a blues singer. Though the instrumentation is dated on some of the songs (the strings soar a little too high), her voice saves the day, alternately powerful and vulnerable.
   
   Her version of "I Just Want to Make Love to You" rocks harder than the Rolling Stones version, and that is no small feat. 'At Last' is a great song, and her vocal interpretation is the best out of many artists who attempted it. 'Sunday Kind of Love' is another masterpiece, as is her rendition of 'Stormy Weather'. Not a bad song on the record.
   Etta James is a national treasure. Thanks for the beautiful, heart-felt music.
   
   As an aside, does anyone else see a resemblance between Etta's singing and Janis Joplin?



4. I have 2 other Etta James cds and I love them. This cd left me cold...very 'pop' very little blues. I didn't like it at all...very
   disappointed!



5. To hear the purity of Etta James is to be as close to perfection as is possible on this planet. "At Last" alone is worth the price of this phenomenal collection of soulful exuberant song collection. I cannot praise too highly when I tell you that this music has uplifted my very being, just from the deep feeling this woman has given to each note - each syllable. Whether she is rocking with Harvey Fuqua (of the Moonglows) on the song "It's A Crying Shame" or doing her own very special take on the classic "Stormy Weather" in a reach-right-into-your-gut variation, the ride you take is a thrilling one in so many ways.
   
   I fell in love with this song all over again when I heard a singer at a favorite resort do this number and strangely enough when a ventriloquist through a puppet sang this title song that I just had to own this CD and I'm so glad I did. Etta James has joined Aretha Franklin for me as the royalty of soulful music. And that's saying something since I fell hard for Aretha while still in my teens so many years ago.
   
   "Sunday Kind Of Love" is another cut that deserves high praise. The phrasing alone is superb, and if these songs don't touch you, I would seriously consider a soul transplant.
   
   If you love music that moves you and makes you glad you're alive, this CD is a MUST.

5 comments about Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday.

1. This is not a good demonstration of Billie Holliday. First, too many songs squeezed into each side. Sound not good. For me, it was a waste of money. One of her best is the Billie Holiday-Lester Young CD " a musical romance"



2. Excellent CD. A good purchase if you do not want to buy the box set. Has the essentials.



3. If you love the blues, and its history, this is a must have. Billie Holiday had a voice, and a tempo, and delivery, followed by back-men who are jazz/blues icons today, that was new, and fresh, and inspiring in their time, and remains so today. I lost all my belongings in a wildfire, including an extensive collection of Billie's recordings. This was my first step back to remembering her, purchasing this wonderfully produced CD. I now consider it a treasured musical archive. If you love Lady Day, relax, and listen to this CD, and you will be entranced again, and again. Her gift to us, forever.



4. Anybody who likes Billie Holiday even part time needs this CD. Even great for those people who only know a few songs just by chance. Love the CD. Even got another as a gift for a friend.



5. Bought this for my granddaughter. She's a Billie Holiday fan. She loved the CD.

5 comments about Love Songs.

1. Our daughater asked us to purchase this to play "At Last" as the wedding party enters the reception.



2. In an age when music is trite and shallow, it is refreshing to re-discover music that is timeless and beautiful. I am glad I purchased this.



3. When Etta James starts to sing the world stands still and your heart skips a beat. What a voice this lady had. I am very thankful to have this music as it can transform an ordinary day into a fantastic mood of love and happiness. When she sings At Last or Sunday King of Love my heart smiles and her smooth blues make me sings too. She makes music way more than just sound. Thanks



4. For years I have said that even though Etta James did not have many "Top Ten" hits on the charts, she is the best interpreter of other singers' songs, the best who ever lived and sang on a New Orleans or a Chicago stage or bar stool. She takes every song she sings and makes it all new and all Etta. She is the single most important reason I became a fan of the blues _ _ _ years ago. You get the picture? I am an old lady and am an old fan.
   
   She's been through many years of problems and heartache, but then, here she still is, with a voice that is even better (if that's possible!) than when she was a sweet young thing performing with Louie Armstrong, Ray Charles, BB King and all the great band leaders and blues singers. She even has a new thin physique!
   
   A couple of the tunes are ones she had in her regular repertoire forty-five years ago and others are contemporary hits from other artists. Each one is "pure Etta." I seem to play this one over and over and over. I can't get enough. I even have it on my computer so I can listen to it when I am doing other work!
   
   This CD is a great example of what the blue are and the influence it can have on all kinds of music. Some of the tunes one will hardly recognize at first. And--the best part of this recording is that you don't have to be in love to enjoy it! (though it wouldn't be bad that way, too)



5. Great songs and some very sensual! Perfect for a romantic dinner at home with candles.....

5 comments about Blues to the Bone.

1. I am a huge BLUES fan, but it is hard to find in my area, so I buy a lot of "BLUES" CDs. Although Keb" Mo is probably one of my favorites, I have played the Etta James CD all the way to work and back (60miles/day) every day since I received it from Amazon, and still not tired of her rich voice.



2. Despite the title, this is not Etta's best blues performance. When she's hot she's hot. This stuff is pretty perfunctory.



3. I have just listened to her CD, Blues To The Bone, and she is as phenominal as ever!!
   I`m in no way an expert of the Blues, but I know what I like.
   There is no way you can listen to this CD, and not move to the music!
   She proves, once again, that she is the Queen of Blues!!
   God Bless you Miss Etta!!!



4. A remarkable lack of mojo renders this suitable only as background music in fast food suburban restaurants - I guess the hokey cover photo should have warned me. If you want full-on Jamesian mojo then play her Matriarch of the Blues album LOUD! - see p2 of my reviews.



5. This is one of Etta's finest pieces of work! She is someone to be admired, and highly recommend this album to anyone who loves the blues!

5 comments about Songs That Got Us Through WW2, Vol. 2.

1. Yes, here is one more thing to blame on Woody Allen, as if he hasn't had enough problems in his life. Earlier this year I watched and reviewed in this space the film Radio Days that Woody directed. Every since then in the deep recesses of my brain the tunes Paper Dolls and Sentimental Journey have been pounding away. Hey this is music made before I was born, although maybe I picked it up in the womb. Why is it in my head? I am still a child of my generation and fought the anti-Vietnam War fight to the tunes of Bob Dylan's Desolation Row and The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter but I think I can make a little room for this, if only to keep my brain from stopping that pounding. Directly below are a few comments from my Radio day review that fit here and below that some specific comments on the CD being reviewed.
   
   ...I am a first generation child of the television age, although in recent years I have spent more time kicking and screaming about that fact than watching the damn thing. Nevertheless I can appreciate Director (and narrator) Woody Allen's valentine to the radio days of his youth. I am just old enough, although about a half generation behind Allen, to remember the strains of songs like Paper Dolls and Autumn Leaves that he grew up with and that are nicely interspersed throughout his story as backdrop floating in the background of my own house.
   
   I am also a child of Rock and Roll but those above-mentioned tunes were the melodies that my mother and father came of age to and the stuff of their dreams during World War II and its aftermath. The rough and tumble of my parents raising a bunch of kids might have taken the edge off it but the dreams remained. In the end it is this musical backdrop that makes Radio Days most memorable to me......
   
   ....Allen's youth, during the heart of World War II, was time when one needed to be able to dream a little. The realities of the world at that time seemingly only allowed for nightmares. My feeling is that this film touched a lot of sentimental nerves for the World War II generation (that so-called `greatest generation') whether it was his Jewish families (as portrayed here) on the shores of New York's Far Rockaway or my Irish families on the shores of Quincy, Massachusetts. Nice work, Woody.
   
   The highlights here are Vaughan Monroe's There I've Said It Again. This is the time of the male crooner and the big band orchestra and Monroe combines both here. Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters hit with Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby. Male crooner and three female harmonies was another trade mark of the times. Billie Holiday's Lover Man. Let me keep this one simple- I could get through war, pestilence and the apocalypse as long as I had a Billie album with me.



2. This excellent album contains eighteen songs that were popular during the WW2 years. The album starts with that well-known hit Juke Box Saturday Night (performed by Glenn Miller & His Orchestra!), and then moves between jazzy hits (such as On The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe, and Caldonia) and bluesy tunes (such as There! I've Said It Again, and When My Man Comes Home). I must say, my favorites were two tunes I don't think I have heard before - Ration Blues by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, and Marlene Dietrich's German version of Lili Marlene. (I looked around, and found an English version of Lili Marlene, but it didn't have the heart of this German version.)
   
   I must say that I found this to be a very good album. I miss my GI father, who passed away a year ago, and I felt like I captured a little piece of him when I listened to the music he loved all those years ago. So, if you like that great Big Band sound, or want to get a glimpse into the world of WW2, then get this album. I highly recommend it!



3. This CD is a great collection of songs from the WWII era.
   I recomend it to 40's song lovers and WWII buffs!



4. The songs that were a part of the CD were well chosen, and they
   fairly represented that era. My husband and I fully enjoyed this CD



5. This isn't really a review of the songs (I like them.) I just wanted to say that when I put my CD in my PC and opened the player the track titles did not match the songs. They were all mixed-up. For example, when I double-clicked on "Lil Marlene" I got "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe'. Very strange. I have no idea how this happened. The songs all sound great, though. It's just odd that the titles didn't match the actual songs.

5 comments about Love Songs.

1. Along with 'Lady in Autumn' this is probably the best compilation of Billie Holiday's work. Superbly remastered, it is arguably the finest representation of jazz singing in this period EXCEPT for Lady's other recordings during this time. The reason for this is not only Billie Holiday's extraordinary sound (which defined jazz singing with each note), but the quality of the musicians who accompanied her. Many of these sessions were led by Teddy Wilson (the leader with whom she is most closely associated during this period), who led on nearly half of the selections on this CD, and features legends like Ben Webster, Lester Young, and Buck Clayton.
   
   The songs are of a higher quality than many of the pieces Holiday was given to record during her earliest recording years (probably due to the strength of her fame by the mid-1930s), and her renditions of 'All of Me', 'You Go to My Head', 'The Very Thought of You', and 'The Way You Look Tonight', are comparable with any versions of these standards. (It should be noted that Holiday's gift was so unique that she didn't have to 'learn' her craft: her earliest recordings are classics (a distinction even the great Ella Fitzgerald doesn't enjoy, as Ella's best recordings didn't begin until the 1950s)).
   
   These performances represent Holiday's voice in its physical prime, and her sound is so profound that even the exceptional soloists and session musicians cannot upstage her, though she really gets a run for her money on 'The Way You Look Tonight'. My personal favorite on this CD, it features marvelous reed solos (especially trumpet and the opening clarinet solo) and an impeccable rhythm session with Milt Hinton on bass, Gene Krupa on drums, and Teddy Wilson on piano. Indeed, it is worth purchasing the CD just to hear Holiday's fellow musicians!
   
   This CD belongs in any credible jazz collection, and is a wonderful entry for anyone wanting exposure to the best music of this period.



2. Anybody who loves jazz and the blues cannot be without this Billie Holiday CD. I love it. I can listen to it all day. It's a pleasure to hear great jazz and such an incredible voice.



3. This cd was the first Billie Holiday I ever purchased. WOW! She is the greatest, bar none! EVERY serious lover of music needs this work to add to their collection. I had no idea how special she was and how timeless her work. I am a fan for life.



4. There are so many fabulous reviews for this CD and I have to agree with them. I've been a Billie Holiday fan for years and own many discs of her music, but I find myself reaching for this one a lot. It's a great collection of songs and her voice is so sweet and true here. She's in top form and the arrangements on the songs are all excellent. Whoever put this CD together knew what they were doing. This is definitely Billie during the earlier part of her career and there's a real lightness to this music. (Her later music is great too, but very different.) Most of the songs on this CD are classics and even if you're unfamiliar with her, you'll probably still recognize many of them. There is some crackling background noise on some of the songs, since they were recorded back in the late thirties/early forties, though it's not that bad and most of the time you barely notice it. Some of the stand outs are "You Go To My Head", "The Very Thought of You", "Let's Do It", "The Way You Look Tonight", just to name a few. I think this would be a great introductory CD for someone who is curious about her and would like to hear some of her music.



5. This CD is an excellent collection of great songs performed by the incomparable and legendary Billie Holiday. Billie could conquer any song--from the most vulgar to the most sublime with an electric performance that rivals the best singers of the 20th century.
   
   The CD begins so beautifully with Billie singing "All Of Me" and continues on into "You Go To My Head" by Gillespie and Coots. As with the rest of the songs on this CD, there is some background surface noise as these recordings by Billie were made in the 1930s and the very early 1940s. Nevertheless, there is a certain romantic style to each recording that leaves the listener wanting more after every track.
   
   There songs on this CD are truly timeless; Billie sings such standards as "You Go To My Head," "The Man I Love," "Let's Do It," "The Way You Look Tonight" and "The Very Thought Of You." Don't play this CD for the first time without having time to relax and enjoy it with a glass of your favorite wine--you'll want to listen to it again after you've played it through because it's that beautiful and special.
   
   The liner notes include an essay by Delfeayo Marsalis, the song credits and the dates Billie recorded them, a beautiful black and white photograph of Billie singing at the microphone on stage and the lyrics to "You Go To My Head" and "Easy Living."
   
   I highly recommend this CD for fans of Billie Holiday, classic vocals and the standards of the entire 20th century. Although it is only one CD, it still is a very good representation of Billie's talent. It makes a great starter CD for people who want to find out more about Billie before they purchase box sets, too. A terrific experience to be enjoyed! SMILE

5 comments about Swingin' Miss 'D'.

1. Dinah's style and execution are amazing and Quincy Jones' orchestra is about the tightest thing I've ever heard. You should have this album!



2. Sound and lyrics were terrific...Miss Washington would have the other contestants at American Idol feel completely incompetent.........



3. The quality of Dinah Washington's voice come over very well on the Doubletree television ad, but not at all on the CD track, as is the case with all popular singers, including Linda Ronstadt. The original timbre of the voice is not there. What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!



4. Bought this for the song "Relax Max" which is well worth it as I only heard it on the TV advertisement for DoubleTree hotels. The other songs are real bonuses!



5. 5 WEEK'S IN A ROW I LED OFF MY RADIO SHOW WITH,DINAH WASHINGTON. I ASKED THE STATION MANAGER,
   MR KELSEY' IF THAT WAS OK. "IT'S DINAH WASHINGTON,SURE YOU CAN". HARD TO BELIEVE I NEVER HEARD
   OF"RELAX,MAX" UNTIL THAT COMMERCIAL AIRED ON TV . THIS 1956 RECORDING BRINGS IN QUINCY JONES'
   ORCHESTRA WITH ADDED ARRANGEMENT'S BY;ERNIE WILKINS/BENNY GOLSON + OTHER TOP JAZZ
   SOLOIST'S.
   SONG'S ARE;"CARAVAN","PERDIDO","NEVER LET ME GO",DROWN IN MY TEARS,"CLOSE YOUR EYES"(THIS
   TUNE IS MY NEW FAVORITE.) AND 12 MORE.
   DINAH IS THE QUEEN OF THE BLUES,GOSPEL,LATIN,JAZZ AND POP!!! IT'S ALL HERE!!!

5 comments about Etta James Rocks the House.

1. I really hadn't listened to Etta James before, but recently heard a couple of her songs on [...] - well, I liked them and decided to get a cd. This woman really does Rock the House! What a voice! She reminds me a little of Tina Turner when she was with Ike. I think Janis Joplin may have been influenced somewhat by Etta James. I'm very happy with my purchase.



2. An absolute masterpiece. I listen to it over and over and I am still amazed at the energy and creativeness she puts in each song. There is one slow song on the cd that kind of breaks the rockin' mood, but it is still an awesome cd, one of my all time favorites.



3. One of the greatest live club recordings in Blues, and the only one from Etta's early career. You can feel the party; folks are screaming, Etta's steaming, the whole country was still reeling from her '61 At Last! recording that will also knock your shoes off and have you rocking the house yourself. Oh, Etta sings some beautiful blues, you know, but she can rip out some heart-wrenching gutteral gospel, too; it's all here in this one-night show. Just 25 years old and in full power, Live.
   
   The audience is up screaming and dancing from the first number and Etta immediately slides into the sexiest version of Jimmy Reed's Baby, Any Way You Want Me To Do, giving the song all new meaning. Just four years earlier Ray Charles topped the charts with What I Say, and Etta belts it out true to form with all the flavor Ray gave it, and the audience is absolutely enthralled. You are right there with them on this recording.
   
   She puts The Beatles to shame on Money (That's What I Want), and beat them to it here, rocking out to the tune originally recorded by Motown writer Barrett Strong in 1959. The Beatles made a hit out of it in '63 only after this show. They've Etta James to thank for warming Americans up to the beat.
   
   The house stays on their feet keeping the floor wet though a rocking bluesy Seven Day Fool and they don't get a rest till the guitarist gets to put on a show of his own with Sweet Little Angel; a B.B. King classic, sung by Etta "with a feeling" as Little Walter wrote and Paul Butterfield so famously quoted and promoted. Oh, what a feeling. The first set ends here and we break for drinks!
   
   Encore time! Ooh Poo Pah Doo gets the fans all riled up and dancing again. You can imagine a mixed crowd of revelers, drinks and smokes set down now, see 'em Twisting in front of the band and throughout the aisles. Back to B.B. King for Woke Up This Morning in rockin' double time, and Etta finishes off her party sending everyone home sweaty and in the mood with another Jimmy Reed classic, Ain't That Lovin' You Baby.
   
   Oh, Baby, what a night!



4. Years ago a friend had this on cassette. I finally found it on Amazon.com. What a woman! What a voice! I recommend this CD to anyone who likes Etta James. This CD always gets me moving and smiling.



5. This album is the best album I own, and I own a lot of music. If you don't love the emotion, intensity, and power of this than nothing can move you.

5 comments about Remixed & Reimagined.

1. Every song is perfectly remixed with an ambiance of House, Down Tempo, Trip Hop, Funk, and Acid Jazz. If you want to hear Billie Holiday in her natural style then buy the original Billie CD's but if you love remixes that take the past and make it a blast for todays generation, this is it!!! The flow of the CD never misses a beat. Each song is perfect in its remix style. This is much better then the Nina remix because it's smoother and the producers really meshed Billie Holidays vocals and original music to the new remix style they intended. Once again, if your looking for original Billie this is not the CD for you but if you want original Billie with a bit of Cayenne Pepper this is it!!!!



2. I loooooved the cd. It helps people my generation understand the beautiful and softness of Ms. Holiday's voice. I like that they put nice upbeat dance music and beats and joined them togther with her softness and charsmatic voice.
   
   Of course, i wish there was more, but then again, it wouldn't be a "remixed" cd now would it? Bravo!



3. I can't stop listening to this CD. It is absolutely awesome!!! My favorite this week is track four. If you don't have it you gotta get it!!! The remixes are AWESOME!!!! Talk about innovative and change, these remixes are AWESOME. I can't say it enough!!!!



4. This CD gets better and better upon repeated listenings. Its off the bloody hook really. Every track spot on. If you are a jazz purest, or struggle with other genres there is a 99% chance you will not like something like this. As you can see by other reviewers this one is not everyones bag of bananas. I'm really blown by it. I really am. I can't get over it. She would have loved this. Makes me love her even more. Well done.



5. I heard this on the radio and just about lost my lunch. It was so horrible to discover that the loathsome ghouls who produced this had stolen Billie's beautiful, beautiful voice from its native setting and imprisoned it in their own soulless wasteland - - just to make a buck off her corpse. Heck, why not? She didn't get mistreated or ripped off enough while she was alive, right?
   
   Hey, guys, can I dig up your dead mamma? I want to paint her skull pink and put it on my lawn along with the gnomes.
   
   Oh. By the way. The backing band? They stink. But that's what you'd expect here. If they had any talent they'd make their own music. Instead all they can try to do is eat the bodies of real humans.

5 comments about Lady in Satin.

1. When I was very young, I heard my mother play this record, and I envisioned the singer as follows: she bathed in milk, ate chocolate for breakfast, wore violets and fur all year round, and took frequent vacations on other planets; equal parts Venus de Milo, Mother Earth, and the Tooth Fairy. Years later, I read Lady's book and found out that I was both 100% wrong and 100% right. I also started buying Lady's early works, and I understood how she arrived here.
   
   Lady in Satin is a work of sublime majesty and grandeur. If you've ever wondered whether there was life after Bird and before Trane, buy the record. If you've ever wondered whether jazz can be sung with strings and a chorus, buy the record. If you've ever wondered whether Marvin Gaye or Robert Palmer got it from, buy the record. (Both claimed it as formative.) Whatever time of day or night you listen, dawn caresses the heavens for the duration of this album.



2. Even after more then 50 years, Billie Holiday (a singer before my time) songs can still capture the heart of many who listen to her singing and her emotion behind her song. Ella has always been my facourite.
   
   However, it was by chance that I listened to Bilie Holiday's voice and was quickly captured my attention. I have many of her recordings CD from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. In the early years, her voice was sweet. However, it was her recording in her 50s that I can truley feel what she is singing.
   
   The songs from the Lady in Satin CD truley revealed Billie's inner emotions especially in the songs: I am a Fool to want you; and The End of a Love affair...songs that can really bring tears into your eyes.
   
   Enjoy your Billie Holiday Lady in Satin CD...even though her voice has become rough, her strong emtion behind the songs truley made them a real timeless Classic!
   
   I cannot seem to think of any other songs that can be so sad and so emotional!
   
   Thanks for giving us the songs!



3. The name really does say it all. This is Holiday at her smoothe, silky best. When it comes to female jazz singers, a lot of fans like to break off into various camps: Camp Holiday, Camp Fitzgerald, Camp Simone, Camp Vaughn, etc. I'm not one of those people. I listen to jazz singers to work on and improve my jazz music phrasing. So to start, I get different experiences and learn different things from different singers, making me a Holiday fan, but certainly no basher of any other singer. Listening to any of the above singers is beneficial and enjoyable, but make no mistake: They are different. For me, I have always liked Billie Holiday because, if you know the notes, when you listen to her sing, you aren't always sure she's going to get where she needs to go in the number of beats/measures she has left to get there. But somehow, she always does. Some of the tracks on this CD are shining examples of her ability to take a phrase, soak it down, wring it out, and put it back into an unexpected but pleasing shape. Probably the best example of that is track 3, "You don't know what love is". The selection of songs on this CD leaves a little to be desired, but at the same time, the alternate takes really are "alternative", so the listener gets to experience different aspects of the same song, which makes the listening all the more challenging, but rewarding. In short, I always enjoy this CD and I come back to it quite often. Casual jazz fans looking for a compilation to add to their collection could probably do better with Billie Holiday: The Complete Decca Recordings, but it is more expensive than this CD. Serious jazz fans familiar with Ms. Holiday and wanting a broader introspective, on the other hand, will not be disappointed with this work.



4. Old and great fans of Billie Holiday, but this sound track is scratchy.....voice sounds bad, as if the singer is attempting to relive the golden years, but the voice is just not up to it. Did not enjoy listening, and could not even listen to the entire CD it was of such poor quality.



5. I can only quote the eloquent review from Amazon:
   A harrowing classic, Billie Holiday's personal favorite among her '50s albums captures the singer 17 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 Ellis' sleek string arrangements. Yet it is that very contrast that explains the power of these performances: In revisiting its torchy standards, Holiday reduces them to their core of pain and longing, transforming "I'm a Fool to Want You," "You Don't Know What Love Is," and "You've Changed" into naked declarations as mesmerizing and unsettling as a horrific accident. Any postrocker that presumes pop standards and string sections automatically translate to "easy listening" hasn't listened to this. This 1997 version adds unreleased takes and a beautiful 20-bit digital transfer to extract every shivering pang of Holiday's music. --Sam Sutherland
   
   Nothing to add more. Only that I own all her albums, as well as around 25000 mp3s of all kinds of artists like Sinatra, Hendrix, all that one could call good music. This album was her favorite, and it is possibly the most beautiful album I have come across in music.
   As they say, only a sad life makes it possible to sing from the heart, as one can find out listening to Piaf and Callas among others. This beautifully melancholical album is a treasure of Billie Holiday's voice and embodies her work, which is, unfortunately, receded to recorded history.'
   When NASA decides to shoot a CD into space again as they did in 1977, this should be the one!