Billie Holiday - Commodore Jazz Classics - Fontana - Blues
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Price | £9.00 |
Track ListingA1 Strange FruitA2 She\'s Funny That Way A3 Fine And Mellow A4 Embraceable You A5 I\'ll Get By B1 Lover Come Back To Me B2 I Cover The Waterfront B3 Yesterdays B4 I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues B5 I\'ll Be Seeing You Media Condition » Very Good Plus (VG+) Sleeve Condition » Very Good Plus (VG+) |
Artist | Billie Holiday | ||
Title | Commodore Jazz Classics | ||
Label | Fontana | ||
Catalogue | TL 5287 | ||
Format | Vinyl Album | ||
Released | 1964 | ||
Genre | Blues |
Other Titles by Billie Holiday
• 16 Classic Tracks • Billie Holiday • Billie Holiday Volume II • Billie's Blues • Easy To Remember • Golden Greats • Good Morning Heartache • Lady In Autumn: The Best Of The Verve Years • One For My Baby • The Billie Holiday Collection - 20 Golden Greats • The Lady And The Legend 1949-1951, Record 1 • The Real Lady Sings The Blues • The Voice Of Jazz • 16 Classic Tracks • Billie's Blues •
Information on the Blues Genre
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common. The blue notes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of the sound.The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues-rock evolved.
The term "the blues" refers to the "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman's one-act farce Blue Devils (1798). Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition. In lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood.
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