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Title: This is essentail music, for anyone's taste...
Review: Mahalia Jackson once said "If you don't like Louis(Armstrong) you aint human," well the same goes for Lady Day, and this is her at her very peak. Here Holiday is sometimes backed by srings and choir, which surprisingly isn't vomitious, but refreshingly beautiful. Holiday never recorded a bad record therefore anything she did is worth picking up, however this double CD which contains all of her wondefully juicy Decca sides(including some rare alternate takes) is packaged so well that you just have to pick it up. This CD is a good indroduction to Holiday, and it should also be acquired by all serious jazz and or music lovers.
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