Billie Holiday – Songs For Distingue Lovers – Verve (Acoustic Sounds Series) 180g Vinyl LP

Acoustic Sounds Series reissues from Verve/Universal Music Enterprises!
Monthly releases highlighting the world’s most historic and best jazz records!
Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes
180-gram LPs pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Stoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets
Series supervised by Chad Kassem CEO of Acoustic Sounds

It is undeniable that Billie Holiday’s singing changed in her later years. Her voice darkened and shifted to a lower range. Her economy of means distilled her sound to its expressive essence — a kind of heightened speech. The classic LP Songs For Distingue Lovers has also deepened and become burnished with time. Maybe it’s that still-arresting word, “distingue”; maybe it’s that iconic, tinted image of Lady Day on the cover. But now that legendary LP, with the singer’s best studio work of the Fifties, is available through the Acoustic Sounds Series.

Musicians:
Billie Holiday, vocals
Larry Bunker, drums
Harry “Sweets” Edison, trumpet
Barney Kessel, guitar
Red Mitchell, bass
Joe Mondragon, bass
Jimmy Rowles, piano
Alvin Stoller, drums
Ben Webster, tenor saxophone

Track Listing

Side A
Day In, Day Out
A Foggy Day
Stars Fell On Alabama

Side B
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
Just One Of Those Things
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was