A myth of jazz

The biographical data are reminiscent of Satan Directed by birth in Philadelphia under poor conditions. Moving to Baltimore, as a child already raped, then as a messenger girl in a brothel in the anschaffte mother. Then just there even prostitutes. Hardly school, never teaching. The uplifting was the music from the radio. Louis Armstrong. Ella Fitzgerald. The girl began what it heard nachzusingen. Somehow different, it sang as the instruments that played the music. This child, who came out of the dark corners of life, was to have an hour of jazz.

Billie Holiday, who would become on April 7, one hundred years old passed away, world famous, poor, destroyed by heroin, already in its 44th year, 1959. As she had already shocked the world with its unique way, the jazz singing. During her life Billie Holiday was a myth. She has created himself. So it is no wonder that today, once again a collection of titles is brought to market its 100th birthday.

Billie Holiday. The Centennial Collection, is the CD, can be heard on the total of 20 tracks, which are designated by the producers as the key. Of course one can admirably argue about the choice, but in the end should the perversity of a catechist-dispute stab at Billie Holiday in the eye. Consistently included on What A Little Moonlight Can Do, These Foolish Things, Summertime, Billie's Blues on I Must Have That Man, Mean To Me and I Can not Get Started to God Bless The Child, Strange Fruit and Lover Man are pieces that emphasize the greatness of this singer.

The ability Billie Holiday, from the horrors of daily life something will leave and accuse the Ordinary as something monstrous quite normal, her until now also not procured a expressiveness that not only today, when listening to their works, acts, but was reached. Of course there were great voices to Billie Holiday. But until today there is no one succeeded in the existential Fragile, the bestial Humane vocally as civilized express as Billie Holiday. The way how they sing Strange Fruit, brings to today breath bogged down, precisely because it makes it sound so normal in the southern US, the Assassination of blacks. The corpses hanging from the poplar trees of the avenues are, as documented in a forestry report. Only Holidays intonation reveals what's behind it and it occurs because today so many can not hear the end of the piece.

The Centennial is a CD that provides an overview of a great work. He who hears, for a while in another world. In a world where the only really Billie Holiday can only lead.