Billy Holliday - Dame du Jazz

Nicknamed “Lady Day“, Billie Holiday was extremely influential in jazz music and pop singing. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Her song ‘Strange Fruit’ is sadly still relevant after eight decades, providing fuel for the Black Lives Matter movement. Based on a poem about lynching by Abel Meeropol, the song reminded Holiday of the death of her father: “I have to keep singing it, not only because people ask for it, but because twenty years after Pop died, the things that killed him are still happening in the South“.

Tracklist
SIDE A:
1.Lady Sings The Blues
2.All Of You
3.Cheek To Cheek
4.Love Is Here To stay
5.Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
6.Crazy He Calls Me
7.Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)

SIDE B:
1.Strange Fruit
2.Blue Moon
3.Love Me Or leave Me
4.Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
5.Lover Come Back To Me
6.My Man
7.April In Paris