Billie Holiday's five-year recording association with jazz impresario Norman Granz commenced in 1952. By the time she recorded Songs for Distingué Lovers and Body and Soul, her last studio recordings for Granz both dating from the same sessions in January 1957, the singer's voice was clearly not in the best of shape. On ‘Just One Of Those Things’ and the final phrases of ‘Embraceable You’ she sounds entirely drained of energy – “sapped by too much life and too much sorrow”, as John A. Tynan wrote in his original review for Downbeat. But then on ‘Comes Love’ and ‘I Wished On The Moon’, a song she first recorded in 1935 and one of her earliest hits – she sounds terrific, utilising her lower (and by now slightly reduced) range to maximum expressive effect. The singer is backed by a superb group that includes tenor saxist Ben Webster, trumpeter Harry “Sweets” Edison, pianist Jimmy Rowles, guitarist Barney Kessell, bassist Red Mitchell, and drummers Alvin Stoller and Larry Bunker, with plenty of space for solos from Webster, Edison, Rowles and Kessel.