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By Marcus J. Moore

Billie Holiday is one of the main jazz singers, whose emotional intensity and exclusive phraseology have encouraged generations of singers to experiment with the shape and fluctuation of height. Nicknamed “Lady Day” through the saxophonist Lester Young, his star enlightened in the 1930s a series of successful songs and notable persistent live in Harlem. In the warmer jazz scene in the country, the holidays stood out and, in 1937, he registered in the remarkable orchestra of Count Basie; A year later, the clarinetist Artie Shaw asked her to register in her orchestra, turning a party into the first black woman into paintings with a great white band.

The highest holiday legend in the last decade of 1930 in the Coffee Society in Manhattan. It was presented to “Strange Fruit”, a song through Abel Meeropol in the lynching in the South American on the basis of a poem he had written. Barney Josephson, the owner of the Coffee Society, listened to the song and brought it on vacation, who played it for the first time in 1939. It was a moment of the basin for the singer: it is not only the maximum song noted of its repertoire, it is considered as one of the vital maximums in history, the living image of the song is a strong act of access to the country. Holiday was officially a star after the recording of “Strange Fruit” and followed him with an impressive series of clues in the early 1940s that consolidated his fame.

Although there is a perception to associate vacations with pain and fight, those stories attenuated their gentle as a brand of brands whose artistic courage encouraged others to take similar risks. We ask 10 musicians and writers who pending their favorite vacation songs: take the merit of listening to their choices, see reading lists and make sure they leave their own options in the comments.

In the first two seconds of this song, it is very unlikely that it does not train in the charm of Billie Holiday’s voice. Browsing with confidence in the lush agreements of the pianist Oscar Peterson, Holiday eliminates the curtain from the beating center of all who enjoyed, lost, enjoyed and (ultimately) were lost in this great city. Excellent stories narrator, Holiday explores all the tones of anthem sun through Vernon Duke to fall introspection in the city that never sleeps. Thanks to their delivery, every detail becomes animated, cinematographic: couples holding their hand in Central Park, the clouds that are reflected in the endless metal buildings, the sunset in Greenwich Village, the ironic smile of the butler in Ritz, a glass of coccyl stained with lipstick left the bar left. Billie was the queen of all this, one of the most productive black artists of her time, who did not leave stone did not return to her adventure to the self. It is beyond the jazz song; It is the domain in its highest form. With this song, Billie takes her position among the biggest improvisers in Balladeer in The Canon of Jazz, creating the best edition of an American classic.

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