Grover Washington Jr
You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Grover Washington, Jr., Wonder, Stevie
Don t Explain - Grover Washington, Jr., Herzog, Arthur Jr.
Easy Living/Ain t Nobody s Busienss If I Do/Taurian Matador - Grover Washington, Jr., Cobham, Billy
C. Freeman
| 08/24/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) First of all I have to explain that while the LP is relatively easy to find (check out www.gemm.com), the CD is EXTREMELY hard to find, so my review hear is of the LP, not the CD. I ordered the LP (from Gemm), and though I enjoyed the music, was ultimately disappointed in the sound quality after I copied it onto tape. The hissing and slight scratching definitely detracted from what otherwise would have been a wonderful experience.
Soma Ghosh
, February 26th, 2021 11:26
Lee Daniels gorgeous star-spangled biopic of Billie Holiday honours the incomparable artist, but risks reducing her to a shiny, heroic emblem more than the harsh-throated contradiction she was, finds Soma Ghosh
Norman Granz writes on the liner of
Songs For Distingué Lovers (1957) that Billie Holiday “happened to some songs”. From the moment she happened, mainstream culture has tried to explain away the transgressions that make Billie the seminal godmother of RnB queens and punks alike.
This 1959 obituary by Time magazine sums up the Establishment’s begrudging awe:
Died. Billie Holiday, 44, Negro blues singer, whose husky, melancholy voice reflected the tragedy of her own life. Born of indigent teenagers, schooled in a Baltimore brothel, she stubbornly nursed her resentment ….