The sixteenth album: #16 Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin
After listening to her several times for the songs list, I now get the full 'experience'. This is her in her later years, which shows through in the vocals, sounds deeper and darker.
It's the slow, simpler songs that get you. While from the same place of Sinatra, where he goes big and swings, she goes small, the track often relying far more on her voice. It makes her sound sadder and smaller, something that really shows on "I Get Along Without You Very Well", which I've heard on both, but express a different sentiment simply because of the difference in the performers' voices.
It becomes maudlin music to immerse yourself in, something the songs really allow you to do. The orchestration makes you feel comfortable in the sadder parts of the songs, which is a great feat on its own. It's good to feel a bit sad sometimes.