THIS ISSUE: It may not be pure analog, but it’s damn good anyway.
Decades after their deaths, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday loom large over the American music landscape, inspiring every jazz vocalist, especially the women. Fitzgerald and Holiday’s contributions are vast, their work timeless, their joys and sorrows expressed in songs both thrilling and crushing.
Jazz as a form of popular song has largely faded from America’s music culture, but Fitzgerald and Holiday’s brilliance lives on, a beacon to their artistic excellence. Much evidence for that excellence can be heard in
