A Holiday I Do

Satan Takes A Holiday is a Stockholm-based band, created in 2006 by Fred Burman, Johannes Lindsjöö and Svante Nordström. Their second album Who Do You Voodoo was released March 2012 in Sweden, preceded by the single KARMA BABE (voted into the national radio station’s ”Hall of Fame” by the listeners). Two more singles off Who Do You Voodoo were picked up by swedish radio.

Four time Grammy® -nominated singer Jewel presents a gorgeous collection of holiday gems with her second seasonal collection - Let It Snow: A Holiday Collection. The artist takes a very classic approach to this collection, featuring a mix of styles including jazz, classical, vintage pop and her normal acoustic pop sound. The arrangements are straightforward and elegant - the type of sound that will definitely make this a perennial favorite. Jewel's take on What Child is This features a pensive piano arrangement that is reminiscent of the style and approach of her hit Foolish Games, while Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow has a Brenda Lee-type country/rock flavor.

This luxury bounded box (13x13x2″) contain 12 CD for a total of 236 tracks, almost all the live tracks recorded by Billie Holiday along her career. It’s an essential item for those who want to explore this side of her discography. It contains almost all the tracks mentioned below in this live discography.

The album "INTEGRAL BILLIE HOLIDAY 1956 - 1959 (Remastered Version)" is a curated collection of Billie Holiday's recordings from the final years of her career, spanning 1956 to 1959. This period captures her mature, emotive interpretations of jazz and blues standards, even as her voice showed signs of strain due to personal and health challenges.

Billie Holiday's newly released album, "Billie Holiday Essentials: The Greatest Songs of the Jazz Diva," is a comprehensive collection celebrating the iconic singer's most beloved tracks. This compilation features some of her most significant works, showcasing her unique voice and emotive delivery that have left a lasting impact on jazz and blues music.

Billie Holiday's newly released album, "Billie Holiday Essentials: The Greatest Songs of the Jazz Diva," is a comprehensive collection celebrating the iconic singer's most beloved tracks. This compilation features some of her most significant works, showcasing her unique voice and emotive delivery that have left a lasting impact on jazz and blues music.

The album "INTEGRAL BILLIE HOLIDAY 1956 - 1959 (Remastered Version)" is a curated collection of Billie Holiday's recordings from the final years of her career, spanning 1956 to 1959. This period captures her mature, emotive interpretations of jazz and blues standards, even as her voice showed signs of strain due to personal and health challenges.

The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever. More than a half-century after her death, it's difficult to believe that prior to her emergence, jazz and pop singers were tied to the Tin Pan Alley tradition and rarely personalized their songs; only blues singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey actually gave the impression they had lived through what they were singing. Billie Holiday's highly stylized reading of this blues tradition revolutionized traditional pop, ripping the decades-long tradition of song plugging in two by refusing to compromise her artistry for either the song or the band. She made clear her debts to Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong (in her autobiography she admitted, "I always wanted Bessie's big sound and Pops' feeling"), but in truth her style was virtually her own, quite a shock in an age of interchangeable crooners and band singers.

Celle qui naquit le 7 avril 1915 fut un cri avant tout… Même dans ses instants les plus doux. Billie Holiday est un genre à elle seule de l’histoire du jazz. Certes chanteuse elle fut, mais de ce chant qu’on capte dans les effluves d’un solo de saxophone. Comme un torrent qui n’a finalement que peu à voir avec… le chant ? Cette voix si atypique dérangeait. Dérange encore d’ailleurs. Éraillée ? Distordue ? Décalée ? Délavée ? Une voix comme la mise en son d’une existence qui ne fut qu’une longue souffrance qu’elle coucha sur le papier en 1956, trois ans avant sa mort, dans son autobiographie Lady Sings The Blues.