Songs for Distingue Lovers (Acoustic Sounds) TT-M001 delivering wisdom with a preacher’s

delivering wisdom with a preacher’s cadence and a rebel’s fire

” – Okayplayer (2011)

the album features an outstanding lineup including John Coltrane

" which Iyer selected as an indirect homage to the late Chick Corea

In these compositions one already finds hints of Mingus’s later recordings

Songs for Distingue Lovers (Acoustic Sounds) TT-M001 delivering wisdom with a preacher’sIt is undeniable that Billie Holiday's singing changed in her later years. Her voice darkened and shifted to a lower range. Her economy of expression distilled her sound to its essence a kind of heightened speech. The classic LP Songs For Distingu Lovers her best work of the 1950s has also deepened and become burnished with time. Verves Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180 gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold