Blue

I Love You Diana Ross may have hand-selected the 14 songs on this disc, but as its executive producer she didn't do her domineering reputation justice. Arrangements sag when they should snap-to. At times they're dozy. Occasionally, as in Berlin's "Take My Breath Away," they drown themselves...	The Definitive Collection	Timeless Love Add Smokey Robinson to the list of sophisticated crooners sidestepping the race to rack up songwriter credits in favor of revisiting standards. Don't add him to the list of well-loved pop statesmen willing to let a team of backing musicians do the heavy lifting, though. With Time...	Before Me By now, the list of late-career standards-coverers stretches a mile long--in addition to Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow, Smokey Robinson, and a host of less-successful others, add Gladys Knight to the tally. Don't just lump her in, though, because Before Me differs from its forebears...	Reflections: The Definitive Performances 1964-1969 Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 12/05/2006
Lady Sings the Blues Diana Ross stars as legendary blues singer Billie Holiday in this biopic that chronicles her rise and fall. It begins with her late childhood, a stint as a prostitute, those early days as a blues singer, her marriages, and her drug addiction. Overly glossy and lacking depth, this...	Mahogany One simple question, people: Do you know where you're goin' to? And furthermore, Do you like the things that life is showin' you? These questions are posed in the unavoidable theme song (a huge Seventies hit) from Mahogany, a splashy, diva-sized vehicle for Diana Ross. Miss Ross...	The Boss While hardly as superfine a Ross vehicle as the Chic-produced Diana of a year later, 1979's The Boss does offer a few tracks of prime Ashford and Simpson-helmed disco-pop. Foremost among them are the title track (also heard on this augmented CD reissue in an even better 12-inc...	Lady Sings The Blues (1972 Film) Face it, when searching for female singers to portray the hard-knock life of troubled jazz legend Billie Holiday, Diana Ross's name shouldn't even have come to mind. But portray her she did, earning herself an Oscar nod in the process. The mother of all divas did Lady Day's l...	Trav'lin' Light With Trav'lin' Light, singer/actress/rapper/Cover Girl Queen Latifah (née Dana Owens) continues her chameleonic pan-stardom. The latest musical chapter in Latifah's success-studded career began with 2004's The Dana Owens Album, on which she emerged as a nuanced crooner of jazz a...

Vintage Ross
It's been in the vaults since 1972: a year after the release of her Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues, Ross went back into the studio to record additional songs for what in hindsight is essentially a crossover album. The results are admirable, and in one case--Little Girl Blue--more than that. In peak voice, the singer retains her inimitable fluidity and shows she's more than up to the challenge. Too bad Motown lost its nerve, opting to send Ms. Ross to Boss-land. Now the question is, are we ready to accept the queen of girl pop as a legitimate heir to Lena, Dinah and Billie?

Diana does justice
BLUE is an excellent collection of Billie Holiday songs. It was recorded in 1972 and its history is very sad. These songs were recorded during the making of LADY SINGS THE BLUES and Berry Gordy thought these particular tracks were performed too jazzy and wanted the music in the film and on the soundtrack to have more a pop feel so it would be appealing to a broader audience. Sadly, Mr. Gordy didn't have as much faith in Diana as the rest of us. Her performance in LADY SINGS THE BLUES was amazing and garnered her an Oscar nomination. At the same time critics dissed Diana saying that she did not do Billie justice musically. Wouldn't they have been shocked to know these tracks existed and a different side of Diana existed. Berry Gordy's influence is a strong illustration of how a single person can lead the course of a talents career. Supposedly this set was ready for release if she won the Oscar. She did not and Berry released a pop album next. It is still surprising that it took 34 years to surface. Diana was always defined as a pop diva and sometimes her stage presence took precadence over her actual music. Here we see that Diana can sing! This is a set of Billie Holiday standards and Diana's performance far surpasses many other standard albums thart are out there today. She appears as no novice and the music seems to smoothly emerge from her soul with intensity and purity. She owns these songs and we are presented with Diana Ross the jazz artist. There is no filler here. Standouts are WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES, LET'S DO IT, LITTLE GIRL BLUE, MY MAN, EASY LIVING AND T'AINT NOBODY'S BIZNESS IF I DO. The sound quality here is amazing and this cd is not only recommended for Diana Ross fans but also for any fans of quality jazz music.

diane iz boss!
i'm a long-term dina ross fan & just the discovery of un-released material "tweeks" my ear-drums. however i must say that if you don't care for her enormous talent@ all then you wouldn't like blue which is a nice testament to her adaptations of jazz standards from the sizzling seventies!!!!!

BLUE is Beautiful!
This collection of previously unreleased songs (although recorded over 30 years ago) are refreshingly new and hauntingly beautiful. One can hear the tireless efforts of a young Diana Ross interpreting songs of Lady Day. Songs newly restored and heard for the first time since the "Lady Sings The Blues" project of 1972. These songs are warm, exciting, and deliciously haunting. DIANA ROSS is a powerhouse of talent and "BLUE" Is Beautiful!

Blue is Beautiful, Calming, and Relaxing
The Blue CD is beautiful, calming, and relaxing music. As always Diana Ross gives us her best. I have most of her other music. This adds to my collection.