Lady Day - The Many Faces of Billie Holi... [LE] - Naxos Deutschland

The Many Faces of Billie Holiday invites viewers to see the many faces of this "dark lady of the sonnets", as one poet called her, and to appreciate her undying art more deeply. Most presentations feature Lady Day as the sad victim of hard times and drugs. The single fact of her life that matters above all others is that she was a great artist who, with Louis Armstrong, invited modern jazz singing. Mining a treasure trove of completely new information, the producers set the record straight - and beautiful. In a voice that is Billie-like in its rasping wiseness and its ring, stage and screen Ruby Dee reads from Holiday's autobiography Lady Sings The Blues.