Billy Holiday on Commodore Records   Cover Photo: Skippy Adelman   Cover Art: John DeVries

A collection of 78 records from two sessions one from 1939 and the other from 1943.   Included is the two-sided hit and best-selling record of her career “Strange Fruit” and “Fine and Mellow”.

Billie Holiday to Nat Hentoff as recalled in his book “Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya” — “I don’t think I’m singing.   I feel like I’m playing a horn.”   “I try to improvise like Les   Young. like Louis Armstrong, or someone else I admire.   What comes out is what I feel.”   Amen.

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