"Which famous jazz singer was known as ""Lady Day""?"
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 how different it was from what Holiday sang. Until that moment, I had not fully gauged how freely imaginative her embellishments could be. By ironing out a phrase here, retarding another there, raising this note, slurring that, she transformed a hopelessly banal and predictable melody into something personal, real, meaningful." "* live recordings" Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 is a ten-CD box set of master recordings and alternate takes by jazz singer Billie Holiday that was released by Legacy Recordings in 2000. The box resembles a 78
The Jazz Singer singing sequences and some synchronized speech: Two popular tunes are performed by the young Jakie Rabinowitz, the future Jazz Singer; his father, a cantor, performs the devotional Kol Nidre; the famous cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, appearing as himself, sings another religious melody, Kaddish. As the adult Jack Robin, Jolson performs six songs, five popular "jazz" tunes and the Kol Nidre. The sound for the film was recorded by British-born George Groves, who had also worked on "Don Juan". To direct, the studio chose Alan Crosland, who already had two Vitaphone films to his credit: "Don Juan" and "Old San Francisco", which