Songs for Distingué Lovers
Songs for Distingué Lovers is an album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in 1958 on Verve Records.[7] Granz and Holiday chose familiar items from the Great American Songbook of classic pop for the album, Holiday singing in the context comfortable for her, that of a small jazz band.The original album consisted of six standards, five of which by songwriters who would be categorically tackled by Ella Fitzgerald on her Songbooks series.Songs for Distingué Lovers was reissued by Verve Records on October 28, 1997, as part of its Master Edition series, remastering using 20-bit technology (resulting in a horrible fake stereo mix), with six bonus tracks.The extra tracks were all recorded at the same sessions, and taken from other Holiday albums of the late 1950s on Verve.