Dee Dee Bridgewater - Eleanora Fagan: To Billie With Love

"This album is my way of paying my respect to a vocalist who made it possible for singers like me to carve out a career for ourselves," says Bridgewater, who performed the role of Holiday in the triumphant theatrical production, Lady Day--based on the singer's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues--staged in Paris and London in 1986 and 1987. "I wanted Eleanora Fagan to be something different: more modern and a celebration, not a [recording] that goes dark and sullen and maudlin. I wanted the album to be joyful."

01. Lady Sings The Blues
02. All Of Me
03. Good Morning Heartache
04. Lover Man
05. You've Changed
06. Miss Brown To You
07. Don't Explain
08. Fine And Mellow
09. Mother's Son-In-Law
10. God Bless The Child
11. A Foggy Day
12. Strange Fruit