The world of jazz is suspected of Strange Fruit. It has not really become a jazz standard and has been covered by more pop stars Robert Wyatt, the Gun Club, Jeff Buckley that jazz musicians. But it remains a key moment in the history of jazz, among other things because they explicitly address the struggle for civil rights that black jazz musicians had been implicitly a part of. Musically, holiday - who learned his craft in the bands of Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson puts in a performance that fully leverages the dynamic potential of newly developed microphone, which would become increasingly important for any jazz singer.
