Billie Holiday – Songs For Distingué Lovers (E/E) – LP, JP 1986, With OBI

Songs For Distingué Lovers is an LP by Billie Holiday from 1986 released on the Verve Records label.

About this album

Songs For Distingué Lovers is a late Billie Holiday highlight, pairing emotional wear with remarkable control and phrasing. Recorded in 1957 and released in 1958, the album captures Holiday working with a small jazz group in an intimate setting, where every pause and inflection matters as much as the melody itself. Her reading of standards such as Day In, Day Out, A Foggy Day and One For My Baby turns familiar material into something deeply personal, with the ache of experience always close to the surface. It stands as one of her most affecting late-period statements, balancing swing, intimacy and hard-won authority.

Genre: Jazz