Billie Holiday made each note of every song she sang personal

Billie Holiday made each note of every song she sang desperately personal. She didn't need a stage filled with fanfare or smoke and mirrors to do it. All she had to do was stand still, open her heart and sing to produce music that was elegant and intimate, delicate and warm, dramatic, cathartic and ultimately, tragic.

Excerpt from the film, "Do You Know What It Is To Miss New Orleans?" with Louis Armstrong

God Bless the Child With Count Basie - 1950

Strange Fruit 1958

Travelin' Light - 1958

I Only Have Eyes For You (1958)

My Man with Jimmy Rowles (piano) 1957

FINE AND MELLOW - 1957

STRANGE FRUIT (1958)

First recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939