Billie Holiday - Original Keys for Singers: Transcribed from Historic Recordings

by Billie Holiday (Artist)

(Vocal Collection). This groundbreaking publication features authentic transcriptions in the original keys of 19 classics from the key signature recordings of the great Lady Day. Includes a biography and discography, and these standards in voice with piano accompaniment format: All of Me * Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) * Body and Soul * Crazy He Calls Me * Easy Living * Fine and Mellow * A Fine Romance * God Bless' the Child * Good Morning Heartache * I Cried for You * I Wished on the Moon * Lover, Come Back to Me * Miss Brown to You * Solitude * Some Other Spring * Strange Fruit * This Year's Kisses * The Very Thought of You * You've Changed. A must for every jazz singer's library!

80 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2002

About the author

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.

Nicknamed Lady Day by her sometime collaborator Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz, and pop singers' critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." Her vocal style — strongly inspired by instrumentalists — pioneered a new way of manipulating wording and tempo, and also popularized a more personal and intimate approach to singing.

She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child," "Don't Explain," and "Lady Sings the Blues."

Reviews

[Bridget Eileen Notebook Witch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this songbook! I just restarted voice lessons for the first time in 25 years and I'm excited to learn these songs for my jazz repertoire.