Songs for Distingué Lovers - Billie Holiday

There are many records, they are a bit like hats. I mean, the latter, in fact, there are only a few of them. Today's kids prefer caps, hats and other imported comforters to the homeless and American Red Necks.

However the world goes or goes, this is a timeless recording, from a “timeless” singer, brilliant in her time and today. Revisiting this album over and over again is like hearing it for the first time. With each listen, we are fascinated by the honesty of the lyrics, rocked by the swing of the melodies and the discovery of new nuances in the texture of his voice.

Recorded in Los Angeles in the freezing winter of 1957 and produced by Norman Ganz, I believe that in this month of January, it brought to all the clubs in the city and to the radio, that warm and gentle breeze of the late afternoon in the immense fields of Pennsylvania and the sweet smell of apple pie cooling down on a porch rocking chair