In addition to Cassandra Wilson’s centenary tribute to Billie Holiday (more: here), singer José James is also marking the 2015 centenary with his own heavyweight tribute, a late-March release of Yesterday I Had The Blues: The Music of Billie Holiday.

James, according to issuing label Blue Note, on the album is celebrating the woman the singer refers to as his “musical mother” and his band includes three significant figures on the current jazz scene in pianist Jason Moran, who has scored the new civil rights era film Selma, bassist John Patitucci of the Wayne Shorter Quartet, and Charles Lloyd Quartet drummer Eric Harland. SG

A video about Yesterday I Had The Blues: The Music of Billie Holiday is above. James’ previous album was 2014’s While You Were Sleeping.