Various - Lady Sings The Blues + 3 Bonus Tracks! (Alternative Original Cover) [VINYL]

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The recordings included on the classic album Lady Sings the Blues come from two\r
different studio dates: a complete session recorded in 1956, and four tunes from a 1954 date. Five additional tracks were also recorded at the latter session. Three of them later surfaced on compilation LPs, and have been added here following the 12 tracks from the original album. (The other two tunes \u2013which, according to discographies, consist of new versions of Billie\u2019s classics \u201cI Cried For You\u201d and \u201cWhat a Little Moonlight Can Do\u201d \u2013 were never issued and are now considered lost.) With the addition of these three bonus tracks, this release contains all known surviving tracks from the second session. The emphasis on both sessions is placed on Billie\u2019s singing. Although important musicians are present on both dates (Charlie Shavers, Tony Scott, Paul Quinichette and Wynton Kelly, on the 1956 session, and Harry \u201cSweets\u201d Edison, Willie Smith and Barney Kessel, on the 1954 date), little room is left for any instrumental improvisation. Billie\u2019s voice is clearly the showcased instrument here, which as Miles Davis stated, sounded \u201clike a horn, anyway\u201d.\r
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As the short unsigned original liner notes stated, Lady Sings the Blues was the title of a song, an album, and a book. The book came first, and it contained Billie\u2019s memories, co-written by William Dufty (a writer for the New York Post). They originally planned to call the book Bitter Crop, a line from the song \u201cStrange Fruit\u201d, about the lynching of an African American in the South. Billie used to end all her sets with the tune, which she re-recorded for this album. However, the title of the book was changed to Lady Sings the Blues at the suggestion of the publisher, even though Holiday only rarely recorded blues tunes and didn\u2019t consider herself a blues singer. In any case, the title stuck, and Billie recorded a song by that title shortly after (written by the underrated pianist Herbie Nichols with lyrics by Billie, this would become the pianist\u2019s best-known tune).\r
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BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals on all tracks, plus: Charlie Shavers (tp), Tony Scott (cl, arr), Paul Quinichette (ts), Wynton Kelly (p), Kenny Burrell (g), Aaron Bell (b), Lennie McBrowne (d). New York, June 6-7, 1956. Harry \u201cSweets\u201d Edison (tp), Willie Smith (as), Bobby Tucker (p), Barney Kessel (g), Red Callender (b), Chico Hamilton (d). \u201cI Thought About You\u201d is a Billie Holiday-Bobby Tucker duet. \r
Original sessions produced by Norman Granz, Los Angeles, September 3, 1954.