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This CD includes material from two fine small-group sessions recorded in 1955 and '56, with arrangements provided by clarinetist Tony Scott and excellent support from trumpeter Charlie Shavers, tenorist Budd Johnson, and a young Kenny Burrell on guitar. The standards of the first session come alive with Holiday's ability to bring complex shadings to familiar material, while the later session includes some of her most personal and emotionally charged material. Her voice has a searing intensity on the late recording of "Strange Fruit," and there are powerful versions of "God Bless the Child" and "Lady Sin
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Manufacturer: Polygram Records
Release date: 21 March 1995
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731452142924 UPC: 731452142924
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Release date: 21 March 1995
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731452142924 UPC: 731452142924
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