Jazz Classics Reissue

This was Billie Holiday's penultimate album, recorded when her body was telling her enough was enough. During the sessions with arranger Ray Ellis she was drinking vodka neat, as if it were tap water. Despite her ravaged voice (the sweetness had long gone), she was still an incredible singer. The feeling and tension she manages to put into almost every track set this album as one of her finest achievements. "You've Changed" and "I Get Along Without You Very Well" are high art performances from the singer who saw life from the bottom up.

I'm A Fool To Want You
For Heaven's Sake
You Don't Know What Love Is
I Get Along Without You Very Well
For All We Know
Violets For Your Furs
You've Changed
It's Easy To Remember
But Beautiful
Glad To Be Unhappy
I'll Be Around
The End Of A Love Affair