LADY IN SATIN/180g Audiophile Colored Vinyl

Description

With: Billie Holiday (voice). Orchestra arranged and conducted by Ray Ellis.
It is said that "Lady in Satin" was Billie Holiday's favorite album. An opinion that her most fervent admirers did not necessarily share when this record haunted by love and death was released, recorded in February 1958, seventeen months before her passing at the age of forty-four. However, more than half a century later, one must face the evidence: these interpretations of songs populated by women with broken hearts – like Billie’s voice, always sublime nonetheless – and bathed in... satin strings may never have seemed so poignant and luminous at the same time. For in this exceptional, extraordinary, timeless performer, the tragic never yields to the pathetic, and from I'm A Fool To Want You to Violets For Your Furs, including You've Changed and You Don't Know What Love Is, the emotion is never feigned. Even today, she continues to influence countless vocalists and instrumentalists, both female and male. By what miracle? Because Billie Holiday simply invented a way of singing: a language.