- Format: CD
- Label: Birdland
- Genre: Blues, Soul, Funk
The first popular jazz singer to moveaudiences with the intense, personalfeeling of classic blues and her own life, Billie Holidaychanged the art of American pop vocals forever. Thiscompilation, spanning Billie’s career from 1936 to1952, is the first concise, yet comprehensive,introduction to her perhaps greatest recordings ofgreat American standards.