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In Heavy Rotation::: ALBUM REVIEW: Does Billie burn or simmer? August 2009 Billie Holiday (reissue) Gil Melle Music for Torching Patterns In Jazz Clef/Speakers Corner MG C-669 Georgie Fame New Audiophile Vinyl Cool Cat Blues Produced by: Norma Granz LPs Billie Holiday Engineered by: N/A All genres - Jazz, Blues, Music for Torching Mixed by: N/A Rock 140-Gram Vinyl & Iggy Pop Mastered by: Maarten de Boer at UMG Berliner Heavier! Raw Power www.jazzloft.com

Dan Auerbach Keep It Hid Review by: Michael Fremer 2009-08-01 John Hart Black Pearls John Hart rare classical records & fine analogue audio Gil Melle This summer of 1955 set probably recorded at United in Los Angeles August 23rd and Patterns in Jazz 25th 1955 just a few days after a successful Hollywood Bowl appearance finds Holiday equipment www.blackpearls-online.com covering standards in fine voice backed up a great small combo. Frank Sinatra Sings For Only the Lonely Holliday (born Eleanora Fagan) covers “I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore,” “It Had to Be The Ramones You,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “A Fine Romance” and Nokia Comes with It's Alive some others taken at a slow, summer’s eve pace, with both musical feet firmly set in the Music 1940s but with hi-fidelity sonics. ZZ Top Mobiltelefon kaufen und Fandango The backing musicians, including Harry “Sweets” Edison on trumpet, Benny Carter on ein Jahr lang unbegrenzt Diana Krall alto and tenor sax, Jimmy Rowles on piano, Barney Kessel on guitar, John Simmons on viele Songs laden! The Look of Love bass and Larry Bunker on bass, provide exceptionally sympathetic support for Holiday’s www.comeswithmusic.de sensual renderings of these introspective romantic musings. In Heavy Rotation::: From the photos on the jacket it’s obvious that the then 40 year old Holiday had lost her Learn Perfect Pitch 2009 youthful sexual allure to both natural aging and substance abuse and was getting a bit Fast jowly, but she still looked involved and invigorated and certainly what poured forth from In-Depth Reviews of July her vocal cords was, with her upper registers still vibrant if just a bit scratchy. Perfect Pitch Courses: Smart or Scam? We Tell! June The fine performances here, with her voice still relatively supple and expressive, make www.ReviewsNest.net/perfectpitch May the vocal devastation that would render her second to final full album Lady in Satin (Columbia CS 8048), recorded just three years later, such a difficult listen. April Four years after this album Holiday would be gone. Between Holiday’s sophisticated Rega Hi-Fi Specialist March interpretations, the compact, sympathetic arrangements and precise performances, and the What Hi-Fi 2008 award February “birth of hi-fi” sonics, this is an album that will bring repeated pleasure. A minor gem winners | Loan stock | and highly recommended. demo rooms | 0% credit January www.rega-synergyav.co.uk/

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