CAS Washington presents Billie Holiday ‘Lady in Satin’

There is something about Billie Holiday’s voice that can melt your heart and feel what she is feeling. Through her songs we can feel her joy and her most of all, her pain. Lady in Satin was her penultimate recording and the last to be released in her lifetime. In 1957 she returned to Columbia Records after having recorded for Verve for sixteen years. Lady Day was unhappy with Verve as she had wanted to make a record of Gershwin recordings but they songs were given to Ella Fitzgerald instead. Back at Columbia, she was matched up with producer Irving Townsend and bandleader Ray Ellis and this time they recorded with grand orchestral arrangements. However, despite the heavy instrumentation, for her swansong Billie achieved something delicate and beautiful. Read more here: http://classicalbumsundays.com/cas-presents-billie-holiday-lady-in-satin/