Sunday, November 20, 2022

Billie Holiday [R.I.P.] - Discography

 Billie Holiday  -  Discography


Born: April 7, 1915 - Died: July 17, 1959
R.I.P.

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.




































12 comments:

lival said...

can you post george jones?

Ozzieguy said...

Yes I can and will soon.
Regards
Allan [Ozzieguy]

lemonflag said...

Thanks

Vera Lane said...

Ozzieguy
I Just want to say a big thanks for all the great shares your posting again lately.
Vera x

Pete Cost said...

Thanks so much for this!
The last few uploads request that I sign up with a site that needs my phone number.
No way I do that, sorry. Been burned before.
Any chance of uploading the last ones to Mega or Mediafire? Thanks a lot!

Ozzieguy said...

Hello Pete
All albums are loaded at Mega.
I do not know what you mean about your query.
Sorry.

Pete Cost said...

Thanks for writing back, Ozzie!
Till now, the latest links linked me to an imgur or something site. Seems everything is fixed now. Maybe a temporary hijack?
Thanks again!

Ozzieguy said...

Good that you are able to do what you required.
Thanks again for writing a message to me, I appreciate it when visitors send a message.
Best Wishes
Ozzieguy [Allan]

PrINce CHarMing said...

Hi Ozzieguy,

Thanks So much for the Billie Holiday. Its a treasure to have. By the way, for your Barbra Streisand Discography, do you think you can add her latest live from Bon Soir?

Cheerio. Thanks.

Ozzieguy said...

Hello PrINce CHarMing
I will have to purchase that album to share.

Anonymous said...

T Y S M !!!

alabama jazz fan said...

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks and Thanks