Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday – Billie’s Love Songs (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:02 minutes | 985 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever.
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Billie Holiday – Billie Holiday At Storyville (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:36 minutes | 319 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Billie Holiday is captured live at Storyville in Boston in 1951 and 1953. The discreet recordings capture Lady Day in prime emotive voice. On most selections she is accompanied by the Carl Drinkard Trio, but six others find her joined by Buster Harding’s Trio; the great tenor Stan Getz sits in on three of these numbers. Previously out of press for over 25 years, this historic recording has now been remastered and pressed on audiophile-grade vinyl at Pallas Group in Germany.
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Billie Holiday – Billie Holiday (1957/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:49 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Verve

Billie Holiday’s recordings for Commodore Records have been overshadowed to a large part by her Verve and Columbia offerings, but this collection recorded in 1944 deserves a place alongside her better known albums. Includes the first version of her first hit and signature song, the racially-charged Strange Fruit.

“… she achieved a perfect, lapidary balance, one that can still guide aspiring singers on how to interpret a song … these sessions provide us with Holiday’s last perky swing romps …”
– All About Jazz
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Billie Holiday – At Jazz At The Philharmonic (1954/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 23:37 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues

This historic compilation includes Billie Holiday’s earliest live recordings from performances in 1945 and 1946 at Carnegie Hall and the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Holiday sings some of her most popular songs, including the provocative Strange Fruit as well as Travelin’ Light and Billie’s Blues to appreciative audiences on both coasts. Never again will Billie sound this wonderful … this all happened on a night when she had everything and if you don’t find this LP to be one of the most emotional half hours you’ve ever spent, there’s something wrong … certainly one of the outstanding records in years.
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Billie Holiday – All Or Nothing At All (1958/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 51:16 minutes | 2,04 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve

Recorded in 1956 and 1957, All Or Nothing At All was one of Billie Holiday’s last releases before her death in 1959. A collection of jazz and pop standards by the Gershwins, Irving Berlin and Duke Ellington, among others, the album was produced by legendary producer Norman Granz. Holiday runs the emotional gamut from summery optimism (Love Is Here To Stay) to pathos-rich musings (Ill Wind) backed by a strong studio lineup of veterans including Red Mitchell on bass and Ben Webster on tenor saxophone.
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Billie Holiday – All of Me (Remastered) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 29:05 minutes | 214 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © 2xHD – Storyville Records

For most of her life, the First Lady of Jazz offered the world a voice, the likes of which it will never hear again. Billie Holiday, whose inspiration was more instrumental than vocal, used to say that her aim was to get Bessie Smith’s feeling and Louis Armstrong’s style. She put her whole being into her singing, and leaving behind a legacy of superb vocal jazz recordings. The compelling tracks on this historic album were transferred from the original 78 rpm transcription master.
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Billie Holiday – A Recital By Billie Holiday (1956/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:02 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues

This compilation, gathered from recordings of her New York sessions in 1954, is an excellent sampler of the skills and charms of Lady Day. While the disc may appear to be just another throw-together of Holiday hits, with nothing in particular to distinguish it from the others, the arrangements, the performances and the recordings themselves are all wonderful. Backed by tight, laid-back session musicians (Oscar Peterson plays piano on many of the tracks–check out his solo on “Lover, Come Back to Me”), Holiday here enjoys the last full flush of her talents before health and substance abuse problems claimed her voice in the late ’50s.

In tracks like “He’s Funny That Way” and “Softly,” her raspy voice plays over melodies, caressing them, trailing off the end of phrases for emotional punctuation. Her tone is at once rich and wispy, managing simultaneously to convey vulnerability, despair, strength and sexuality. From the up-tempo swing of “Too Marvelous for Words” to the piano/vocal duo “I Thought About You, Recital is full of gems and a perfect album to put on at 3:00 in the morning.
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Billie Holiday – 30 Essentials of Billie Holiday (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:34:29 minutes | 838 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BnF Collection

The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it’s difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday’s highly stylized reading of this blues tradition revolutionized traditional pop, ripping the decades-long tradition of song plugging in two by refusing to compromise her artistry for either the song or the band. She made clear her debts to Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong (in her autobiography she admitted, “I always wanted Bessie’s big sound and Pops’ feeling”), but in truth her style was virtually her own, quite a shock in an age of interchangeable crooners and band singers.
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Billie Holiday – Easy to Remember (1966/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:31 minutes | 563 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Society Records

Society Records presents this pristine digital remaster of Billie Holiday’s Easy To Remember, offering many of Holiday’s most beloved mainstay tracks from the American Songbook.
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Billie Holiday – A Billie Holiday Memorial (Mono Version) (Remastered) (1960/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:50 minutes | 403 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © BnF Collection

Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed “Lady Day” by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.
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Billie Holiday – Last Recordings (Remastered) (1959/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:21 minutes | 363 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Last Recording, originally titled Billie Holiday before her death, is the last album of Billie Holiday released in 1959, five years after the original album titled Billie Holiday was released
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Billie Holiday – Cheek To Cheek (1958/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:03 minutes | 933 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia – July 17, 1959 in New York City) was an American jazz singer from New York City, who is considered one of the most important performers of the genre.
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Billie Holiday – Gloomy Sunday (1947/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:20 minutes | 656 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

“Gloomy Sunday” (Hungarian: Szomorú vasárnap), also known as the “Hungarian Suicide Song”, is a popular song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933.

The original lyrics were titled “Vége a világnak” (The world is ending) and were about despair caused by war, ending in a quiet prayer about people’s sins. Poet László Jávor wrote his own lyrics to the song, titled Szomorú vasárnap (Sad Sunday), in which the protagonist wants to commit suicide following his lover’s death. The latter lyrics ended up becoming more popular while the former were essentially forgotten. The song was first recorded in Hungarian by Pál Kalmár in 1935.
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Billie Holiday – An Evening with Lady Day (1973/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:25 minutes | 729 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audio Fidelity

The great jazz chanteuse Billie Holiday presents her 1973 album An Evening with Lady Day, featuring Holiday’s most beloved standards. Audio Fidelity presents this legacy recording in stunning modern clarity with its remastering and digital transfer process.
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