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***CD New Ken Burns Jazz: Billie HolidayBillie HolidayGenre: PopDescription: HolidayBillie Ken Burns Jazz This greatest-hits collection accompanies Ken Burns's 10-part documentary Jazz and shows that though she never practiced the vocal gymnastics of an Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday was unquestionably among the greatest jazz singers with a subtle inventiveness in phrasing and note choice and a tremendous capacity to swing. This collection covers virtually the entire career of a fascinating and troubled artist beginning with her sparkling mid-1930s recordings with pianist Teddy Wilson and the cream of swing-era horn players. While those fresh-voiced early records already indicate Holiday's capacity for conveying the nuances of a lyric her work soon took on greater drama. Strange Fruit a 1939 account of a lynching marked a breakthrough in the popular song as well as in Holiday's career and her controlled intensity only becomes more marked on signature songs like the wistful God Bless th