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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Good Morning Heartache 3:30£0.69
Listen  2. My Man 2:39£0.69
Listen  3. Billie's Blues 3:28£0.69
Listen  4. What A Little Moonlight Can Do 3:13£0.69
Listen  5. Don't Explain 2:38£0.69
Listen  6. Lady Sings The Blues 3:47£0.69
Listen  7. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) 2:59£0.69
Listen  8. God Bless The Child 3:59£0.69
Listen  9. Fine And Mellow 3:28£0.69
Listen10. I Cried For You 2:29£0.69
Listen11. Strange Fruit 3:05£0.69
Listen12. Stormy Blues 3:26£0.69
Listen13. Trav'lin' Light 3:09£0.69
Listen14. I Cover The Waterfront 3:47£0.69

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This compilation includes some of the best-known songs fromBillie Holiday's repertoire, originals and standards recorded during the final decade of her career. This terribly painful and difficult period of Holiday's personal life yielded some of the most poignant and soulful jazz recordings ever. A number of them, rendered in the frayed and weary voice of the mature chanteuse, are included on the SONGBOOK.
Whileup-tempo songs like "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" sufferfrom Holiday's lack of energy (contrasted by Oscar Peterson's vivid piano work), "Don't Explain", arguably her best original, is darkly brooding, rich and compelling. Holiday's voice in this late period has lost its shine and the sense of hope that infused its early incarnation. But her incomparable sense of time and phrasing is intact and alive, and the all-star ensembles gracefully shadow Holiday's dreamy singing.

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