For the seventh edition of Classic Album Sundays, we celebrate Billie Holiday's Lady In Satin, her final studio album before her death.

Classic Album Sundays is a monthly album listening event dedicated to experiencing an album in its entirety, on vinyl, and on a world-class sound system. Fans can experience the music as closely as possible to the artist’s original intent and develop a new connection with the music, whether it’s something they’ve just discovered or loved for years.

There is something about Billie Holiday’s voice that can melt your heart and feel what she is feeling. Through her songs, we can feel her joy and her most of all, her pain.

Lady in Satin was her penultimate recording and the last to be released in her lifetime. In 1957 she returned to Columbia Records after having recorded for Verve for sixteen years. Lady Day was unhappy with Verve as she had wanted to make a record of Gershwin recordings but they songs were given to Ella Fitzgerald instead. Back at Columbia, she was matched up with producer Irving Townsend and bandleader Ray Ellis and this time they recorded with grand orchestral arrangements. However, despite the heavy instrumentation, for her swansong Billie achieved something delicate and beautiful

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