Description
Release Date: 2019
Label: Jazz Images
Track List
- 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
- Prelude To A Kiss
- A Ghost Of A Chance
- Gone With The Wind
- Come Rain Or Come Shine
- What’s New?
- Fine And Mellow
Notes
Lady in Satin marked Billie Holiday’s last big hit and her second to last album ever. It represents something close to her swan song. Although some live recordings made after the LP exist, and she even made a second album with Ray Ellis for MGM, none of these documents were as enduring as Lady in Satin. In fact, Billie herself loved this LP, on which she fully impregnates the music with her soul, even though the effects of a lifetime of drug abuse and alcoholism are apparent in her voice. Most jazz fans now consider Lady in Satin to be Holiday’s last great effort. By early 1959 she had cirrhosis of the liver. She stopped drinking on doctor’s orders, but soon relapsed. On May 31, 1959, she was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York for treatment of liver and heart disease. She died on July 17,1959 at the age of 44.
