This official soundtrack to the James Erskine-directed documentary about one of the music's most iconic figures presents a decent enough conspectus of Holiday's wide-ranging oeuvre.

There's Lady Day's first recording of her classic self-penned blues ‘Fine and Mellow’, recorded on 20 April 1939 for the Commodore label (the singer had turned 24 earlier that month), while at the other end of her career there's the infinitely touching ‘Just One More Chance’, recorded in 1959 just four months before her tragically early death at the age of 44.

There are one or two mystifying choices of song version. Penned by Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. in 1939, ‘God Bless the Child’ is rightly considered one of the finest songs of the last century, honoured with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1976 and included in the list of Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. Why the version with the horribly cloying warbling of The Gordon Jenkins Singer Chorus was chosen is utterly baffling. Holiday's original 1941 recording with Eddie Heywood's band – featuring a great Roy Eldridge trumpet solo – would have been more than just fine.

There's no ‘(In My) Solitude’, ‘Lover Man’ or ‘You're My Thrill’, but we do get a joyous ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’, with Oscar Peterson leading the sparkling rhythm section; the swooning romanticism of ‘I'll Never Smile Again’ (bathed in a cavernous reverb); the completely sui generis phrasing of ‘Blues are Brewin’; a touchingly intimate piano trio version of ‘I Loves You, Porgy’; plus Holiday's signature song, ‘Strange Fruit’, which never fails to detonate a huge emotional charge.