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Diana Ross
Stolen Moments: The Lady Sings...Jazz & Blues
Release Date: 1993
Running Time: 73:13
Label: Motown
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On December 4, 1992, Diana Ross took the stage of the Ritz Theatre in New York for a concert commemorating her appearance as Billie Holiday in the film biography Lady Sings the Blues 20 years before. She was backed by an A-list of jazz musicians, and her set list consisted of jazz and pop standards from the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, most of them associated with Holiday. This "special, intimate evening of jazz and blues," as Ross put it, was devoted to "what jazz and blues is really about, which is loose and free and mellow." Despite earning an Academy Award nomination for her acting and topping the pop charts as part of the soundtrack album of Lady Sings the Blues, Ross had not earned much recognition for her jazz singing, and although by 1992 she was four years past the age at which Holiday herself died, she was still essentially a pop singer. Gil Askey's arrangements left plenty of room for the musicians to shine, and the songs were filled with solos by him, Roy Hargrove, Ralph Moore, Urbie Greene, Justin Robinson, musical director Jon Faddis, Jerome Richardson, and Ron Carter. Ross exhibited a bubbly stage presence that played more to the cameras capturing the show than the audio feed, and she sang the songs with warmth and enthusiasm, if without any real resemblance to Holiday or jazz sensibility. Originally released as an audio album and on VHS videotape, the recording was reissued March 19, 2002, on a DVD that added extra material from the concert, while the audio version, already running over 73 minutes, was given a 24-bit remastering but contained the same tracks as the original 1993 release. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Fine and MellowHoliday2:58
2Them There EyesPinkard, Tracey, Tauber3:41
3Don't ExplainHerzog, Holiday4:47
4What a Little Moonlight Can DoWoods3:46
5Mean to MeTurk, Ahlert2:41
6Lover ManDavis, Sherman, Ramirez5:00
7Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)Wilson3:31
8Little Girl BlueHart, Rodgers3:21
9There's a Small HotelRodgers, Hart2:47
10I Cried for YouArnheim, Freed, Lyman6:38
11Man I LoveGershwin, Gershwin5:13
12God Bless the ChildHerzog, Holiday6:13
13Love Is Here to StayGershwin, Gershwin2:18
14You've ChangedFischer, Carey2:58
15Strange FruitAllan3:31
16Good Morning HeartacheFisher, Higginbotham, Drake5:45
17Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I DoGrainger, Robbins17:45
18My ManYvain, Willemetz, Charles, Pollack18:45
19Fine and Mellow (Reprise)Holiday19:45

Other Releases:
Stolen Moments: The Lady Sings...Jazz & Blues [Bonus Track]
Release Date: 1993
Label: EMI Music Distribution








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