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內容簡介 Revisionists and counter-revisionists argue back and forth, but it remains unmistakable that Billie Holiday’s inimitable way with a heartache song only deepened as her own life unraveled. A compilation of her dozen years recording for Verve was put out under the title Lady in Autumn, which is a marketing cliché, but also a perfect deion, for these are autumnal performances: ripe with experience, laden with anticipations of the chill of death, hanging on precariously but ready to fall.”PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ"Every track is performed in an inimitable and extraordinary way, and the tragic mood never falls into the pathetic. Even today Billie continues to influence the style of innumerable singers and instrumentalists, both male and female. What’s the secret? Just the fact that Billie Holiday simply invented a way of singing: a language.”- JAZZ MAGAZINE.PERSONNEL:BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocalsRAY ELLIS and His OrchestraNew York, February 18-20, 1958.(*) BONUS TRACKS (A7 & B7):BILLIE HOLIDAY (vc) with Harry "Sweets” Edison, Joe Wilder (tp), Billy Byers (tb), Al Cohn (ts), Danny Bank (bs), Hank Jones (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d), Ray Ellis (arr, cond). New York, March 11, 1959.TRACKS:SIDE A01. I’M A FOOL TO WANT YOU02. FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE03. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS04. I GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU VERY WELL05. FOR ALL WE KNOW06. VIOLETS FOR YOUR FURS07. ALL OF YOU (*)SIDE B01. YOU’VE CHANGED02. IT’S EASY TO REMEMBER03. BUT BEAUTIFUL04. GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY05. I’LL BE AROUND06. THE END OF A LOVE AFFAIR07. THERE’LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE (*)"