''In My Solitude: The Billie Holiday Songbook'' is a 1994 jazz album by American trumpeter
Terence Blanchard
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed ...
and vocalist
Jeanie Bryson
Jeanie Bryson (born March 10, 1958) is an American singer who sings a combination of jazz, pop music, pop, and Latin American music, Latin music. Her repertoire is based on jazz and pop standards from the Great American Songbook and Peggy Lee and ...
, released on the
Columbia label.
Critical reception
Scott Yanow
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Biography
Yanow was born in New York City and grew up near Los Angeles.
Since 1974, he was a regular reviewer of many jazz styles an ...
of
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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
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'' 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".
Track listing
Personnel
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Terence Blanchard
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed ...
– trumpet, main performer
*
Jeanie Bryson
Jeanie Bryson (born March 10, 1958) is an American singer who sings a combination of jazz, pop music, pop, and Latin American music, Latin music. Her repertoire is based on jazz and pop standards from the Great American Songbook and Peggy Lee and ...
– vocals
*
Bruce Barth
Bruce David Barth (born September 7, 1958) is a jazz pianist, composer, and producer.
Early life
Barth was born in Pasadena, California, on September 7, 1958. He started to play the piano around the age of five. He had private jazz lessons with ...
– piano
* Chris Thomas – bass
* Troy Davis – drums
Chart performance
Footnotes
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Terence Blanchard albums
1994 albums
Columbia Records albums
Billie Holiday tribute albums