In My Solitude: The Billie Holiday Songbook

In My Solitude: The Billie Holiday Songbook is a 1994 jazz album by American trumpeter Terence Blanchard and vocalist Jeanie Bryson, released on the Columbia label.[6]

In My Solitude: The Billie Holiday Songbook
Studio album by
Terence Blanchard
ReleasedMarch 29, 1994
RecordedOctober 20–29, 1993
GenreJazz
Length52:27
LabelColumbia
ProducerTerence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard chronology
The Malcolm X Jazz Suite
(1993)		 In My Solitude: The Billie Holiday Songbook
(1994)		 Romantic Defiance
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Tom HullB–[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide[5]

Overview

Terence Blanchard plays soothing, appealing ballads, uptempo tunes and wonderful melodies on muted and open horn, cleanly and fully hitting high and low notes, while executing mellow or intense statements smoothly and with flair. His guest vocalist Jeanie Bryson singing immortal compositions previously made anthems by legend Billie Holiday.

Critical reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated "Trumpeter Terence Blanchard's tribute to Billie Holiday is a rather melancholy and often downbeat affair. Sounding less original than usual (he displays a strong Wynton Marsalis influence and also hints at times at both Miles Davis and Thad Jones), there is little joy to these renditions of Lady Day material other than the second half of "I Cried for You." The trumpeter's arrangements for the unswinging string section is occasionally oppressive, sometimes border on muzak and tends to weigh down the music." Zan Stewart of The Los Angeles Times added "...Blanchard will explore an earlier era on "In My Solitude: The Billie Holiday Songbook" (Columbia), his fat, sassy trumpet tone accompanied by a string section".[7]

Track listing
TrackSong TitleVocalsTime
1.Detour AheadJeanie Bryson4:32
2.Nice Work If You Can Get ItJeanie Bryson4:36
3.In My Solitude3:39
4.What a Little Moonlight Can DoJeanie Bryson4:01
5.Good Morning Heartache4:38
6.I Cried For You3:42
7.Don't Explain4:10
8.Fine And MellowJeanie Bryson4:37
9.Cover The Waterfront4:34
10.Left Alone8:02
11.Strange FruitJeanie Bryson3:48
12.Lady Sings The Blues6:09

Personnel

Chart performance
Chart (1994) Peak
position
US Traditional Jazz Albums (Billboard)[8] 3
Billboard 200[9] 14

Footnotes
  1. Allmusic review
  2. Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 586. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  3. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Terence Blanchard". Tom Hull. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  4. Cook, Richard. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. p. 128. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  5. Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 1865. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  6. "Terence Blanchard – The Billie Holiday Songbook". Discogs. discogs.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  7. Stewart, Zan (8 January 1994). "New Year Promises Slew of First-Rate Recordings". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  8. "Terence Blanchard". Billboard. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  9. "Terence Blanchard". Billboard. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
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