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C&rsquo;est comme si Frank Sinatra gardait une certaine distance avec les \u00e9motions qu&rsquo;\u00e9voque la chanson, pour mieux les observer et les d\u00e9cortiquer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ici chant\u00e9e par Billie Holliday, \u00ab\u00a0The end of a love affair\u00a0\u00bb prend une dimension beaucoup plus poignante. Lady day (le surnom de <a href=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/tag\/billie-holiday\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/tag\/billie-holiday\/\">Billie Holliday<\/a>), la classe incarn\u00e9e, est accompagn\u00e9e par les arrangements \u00e9blouissants du Ray Ellis Orchestra (les violons \u00e0 2&rsquo;35, arghhh, \u00e7a me colle la chair de poule \u00e0 chaque fois). La musique, le texte, et surtout la voix qui semble s&rsquo;effilocher comme un nerf \u00e0 vif, tout exprime superbement le m\u00e9lange d&rsquo;accablement et de d\u00e9tresse qui nous saisit alors\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0But what else can you do,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>at the end of a love affair ?\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0And the smile on my face<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>isn&rsquo;t really a smile at all\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billie Holiday - The End of a Love Affair\" width=\"1230\" height=\"923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oxSldEPISwo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<!-- templates\/buttons-placeholder.php -->\n<div class=\"da-reactions-outer TpostID4458\">\n\t    <div class=\"da-reactions-data da-reactions-container-async center\"\n         data-type=\"post\"\n         data-id=\"4458\"\n         id=\"da-reactions-slot-post-4458\">\n        <div class=\"da-reactions-exposed\">\n\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/da-reactions\/assets\/dist\/loading.svg\" alt=\"Loading spinner\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" style=\"width:64px\" \/>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C&rsquo;est l&rsquo;une des multiples p\u00e9pites de cet album absolument somptueux de bout en bout. \u00c9crite et compos\u00e9e au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 50 par Edward Redding, elle a d&rsquo;abord \u00e9t\u00e9 chant\u00e9e&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/05\/billie-holiday-the-end-of-a-love-affair-ray-ellis-orchestra\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Billie Holiday &#8211; \u00ab\u00a0The end of a love affair\u00a0\u00bb (Ray Ellis Orchestra)<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- templates\/buttons-placeholder.php -->\n<div class=\"da-reactions-outer TpostID4458\">\n\t    <div class=\"da-reactions-data da-reactions-container-async center\"\n         data-type=\"post\"\n         data-id=\"4458\"\n         id=\"da-reactions-slot-post-4458\">\n        <div class=\"da-reactions-exposed\">\n\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/da-reactions\/assets\/dist\/loading.svg\" alt=\"Loading spinner\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" style=\"width:64px\" \/>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[127,295,179],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musique","tag-amour","tag-billie-holiday","tag-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8690,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions\/8690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryderville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}