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Billie Holiday - Greatest Hits (Sony)
Artist: Billie Holiday
Album Description: Curiously, yet not surprisingly given the enormity of his sway, Billie Holiday's greatest vocal influence was "Pops"--Louis Armstrong, whose trumpet was his first signature (though he's often credited with being the first great jazz singer as well)....
Rating:  16 reviews
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Lady in Satin
Artist: Billie Holiday
Album Description: A harrowing classic, Billie Holiday's personal favorite among her '50s albums captures the singer 17 months before her death, her once honeyed voice, scarred and weakened from punishing life, its ravages highlighted by the 1958 session's crisp...
Rating:  79 reviews
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Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
Artist: Billie Holiday
Album Description: The received wisdom on the tragic torch singer's later work--of these 35 tracks, six were recorded in 1946 and '47, and the rest in the '50s--is that her interpretive skill made up for the collapse of her voice. In fact, the serious cracks in her pitch...
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Rating:  11 reviews
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The Essential Dinah Washington: The Great Songs
Artist: Dinah Washington
Album Description: Release Date: 1992-11-03, Audio CD, Polygram Records
Rating: 10 reviews
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Unforgettable
Artist: Dinah Washington
Album Description: A great voice might be defined by its range or pitch, but for a great torch singer like Dinah Washington, it's an astonishing sense of presence, the ability to convey complex emotional states with a startling intimacy. The songs on this 1961 release...
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Rating: 5 reviews
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What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!
Artist: Dinah Washington
Album Description: Dinah Washington had already enjoyed a career as a jazz and R&B singer when her 1959 recording of "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" catapulted her to a new kind of popularity. Henceforth she would devote herself to singing ballads with orchestral...
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Rating: 14 reviews
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At Last!
Artist: Etta James
Album Description: This is Etta James's first full-length album, recorded for Chess Records' Argo subsidiary in 1960. It taps all aspects of her then-blossoming talent. There's the crooning rock ballad "My Dearest Darling" and the elegantly symphonic "Sunday Kind of...
Rating: 69 reviews
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Tell Mama: The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions
Artist: Etta James
Album Description: Release Date: 2001-04-24, Audio CD, Mca
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Rating: 8 reviews
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Billie Holiday's Greatest Hits (Decca)
Artist: Billie Holiday
Album Description: There's no such thing as a genuine Billie Holiday greatest-hits collection--her career was split among too many labels for that--but this single-disc distillation of the Complete Decca Recordings 2 CD set (recorded between 1944 and 1950) is...
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Rating:  9 reviews
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Love Songs
Artist: Billie Holiday
Album Description: Release Date: 1996-03-12, Audio CD, Sony
Rating: 26 reviews
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Swingin' Miss 'D'
Artist: Dinah Washington
Album Description: Release Date: 1998-09-22, Audio CD, Polygram Records
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Rating: 16 reviews
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Love Songs
Artist: Etta James
Album Description: She's no stranger to the towering highs and lows of the heart, and Etta James's soaring, gospel-tinged pipes match up well with the rigors of unabashed bliss. Happily, the good people at Chess Records recognize this, and they have thoughtfully...
Rating: 27 reviews
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Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
Artist: Billie Holiday
Album Description: Lady Day: The Best Of Billie Holiday is an ideal introduction to the Voice of Jazz in all its enduring glory. This incomparable collection draws on the 10-CD boxed set Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (CXK 85470),...
Rating: 16 reviews
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Blues to the Bone
Artist: Etta James
Album Description: Californian Etta James decided against accepting filmmaker Martin Scorcese's personal invitation to sing at The Blues gala in New York in early 2003. The well-celebrated soul and blues queen makes amends here with what is one of the most blues-centered...
Rating: 26 reviews
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The Ultimate Collection
Artist: Billie Holiday
Album Description: Billie Holiday (1917-59) wore gardenias, was a teenaged prostitute, did drugs, and died with a cop posted outside her hospital bed. But with her gravel-like vocals, and behind-the-beat phrasing, she was one of the greatest singers of the twentieth...
Rating: 16 reviews
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All the Way
Artist: Etta James
Album Description: Throughout a near-50-year career that has seen few low points, at least professionally, Etta James has established herself as one of music's most talented R&B, blues, and jazz singers. On All the Way, she attempts to tackle the easy-listening...
Rating:  12 reviews
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Dearly Beloved
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Album Description: It is generally acknowledged that Ella's really great years were the mid 50s, the period covered by this box set when she was recording with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and Ellis Larkins, performing the works of Cole Porter, Rodgers &...
Rating: 1 review
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Naughty, Bawdy and Blue
Artist: Maria Muldaur
Album Description: Building on her Grammy-nominated collections of classic women's blues from the '20s through the '40s (Richland Woman Blues, 2001, and Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul, 2005), jazz/blues chanteuse Maria Muldaur returns with Naughty, Bawdy &...
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Rating: 9 reviews
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Love Letters from Ella
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Album Description: You knew a trend was brewing when Concord Records scored a hit by taking newly unearthed vocal tracks from the 1970s by the late Ray Charles and adding newly recorded accompaniment by the orchestra still bearing the late Count Basie's name. Here...
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Rating: 7 reviews
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