Lady in Satin (Columbia CS 8048) marked Billie Holiday's last big hit and her second to last album ever. It represents something close to her swan song. Although some live recordings made after the Columbia LP exist, and she even made a second album with Ray Ellis for MGM, none of these documents were as enduring as Lady in Satin. In fact, Billie herself loved this LP, on which she fully impregnates the music with her soul, even though the effects of a lifetime of drug abuse and alcoholism are apparent in her voice. Most jazz fans now consider Lady in Satin to be Holiday's last great effort. By early 1959 she had cirrhosis of the liver. She stopped drinking on doctor's orders, but soon relapsed. On May 31, 1959, she was taken to Metropolitan Hospital in New York for treatment of liver and heart disease. She died on July 17, 1959 at the age of 44.

BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals

Ray Ellis and His Orchestra

New York, February 18-20, 1958.

Original sessions produced by Irving Townsend.

IMAGES BY JEAN-PIERRE LELOIR

Media	Musikk CD (Compact Disc)
Antall plater	1
Specielt cover	Digipak
Utgitt	1. mai 2019
EAN/UPC	8436569194300
Label	JAZZ IMAGES COLLECTOR´S SERIES 24745
Sjanger	Jazz
Mål	125 × 140 × 10 mm · 108 g

Trackliste

1. I'm a Fool to Want You
2. For Heaven's Sake
3. You Don't Know What Love is
4. I Get Along Without You Very Well
5. For All We Know
6. Violets for Your Furs
7. You've Changed
8. It's Easy to Remember
9. But Beautiful
10. Glad to Be Unhappy
11. I'll Be Around
12. The End of a Love Affair
13. Prelude to a Kiss (Bonus Track)
14. A Ghost of a Chance (Bonus Track)
15. Gone with the Wind (Bonus Track)
16. Come Rain or Come Shine (Bonus Track)
17. What's New? (Bonus Track)
18. Fine and Mellow (Bonus Track)