Billie Holiday Jazz Singer is a piece of digital artwork by Larry Butterworth which was uploaded on August 27th, 2013.
Billie Holiday Jazz Singer
Billie Holiday is often considered the foremost female singer in jazz history, a view substantiated by her influence on later singers. Her important... more
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Billie Holiday Jazz Singer
Artist
Larry Butterworth
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Digital Art
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Billie Holiday is often considered the foremost female singer in jazz history, a view substantiated by her influence on later singers. Her important work is found in the group recordings made mostly for Hammond between 1936 and 1944. Her vehicles were mainly popular love songs, some of them long forgotten, others among the best of the time. Her voice was light and untrained, but she had a fine natural ear to compensate for her lack of musical education. She always acknowledged her debt to Armstrong for her singing style, and it is certainly in emulation of him that she detached her melody line from the ground beat, stretching or condensing the figures of the melody, as on the opening of Did I Remember? (1936).
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August 27th, 2013
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