Billie Holiday

INCLUDES 13 BONUS TRACKS

The complete original album LadyLove (United Artists Jazz UAJ-14014), which contains a complete concert from Billie Holiday’s 1954 European tour recorded in Basel, Switzerland. To that fabulous performance, we have added five earlier studio tracks (which had been included as bonus material on previous reissues of the LadyLove LP), the four 1951 Aladdin sides with the Tiny Grimes Sextet, and her Capitol recording of “Trav’lin’ Light” with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. As a further bonus, we have also added an extremely rare complete live performance taped by Billie in Brussels during the same tour on which the Basel show was taped.

PERSONNEL:

BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals on all tracks, plus:

ON TRACKS [1-8]:
CARL DRINKARD, piano
RED MITCHELL, bass
ELAINE LEIGHTON, drums

ON TRACKS [9-10]:
RED NORVO, vibes
BUDDY DeFRANCO, clarinet
JIMMY RANEY, guitar
SONNY CLARK, first piano solo
BERYL BOOKER, second piano solo
RED MITCHELL, bass
ELAINE LEIGHTON, drums

Live in Basel, Switzerland, February 4, 1954.

BONUS TRACKS:

[11-14]: BILLIE HOLIDAY (vcl), Haywood Henry (ts, bar), Bobby Tucker (p), Tiny Grimes (g),
unknown bass and drums. New York, April 29, 1951.

[15]: BILLIE HOLIDAY (vcl), with the PAUL WHITEMAN Orchestra. Los Angeles, June 12, 1942.

[16-23]: BILLIE HOLIDAY (vcl), Carl Drinkard (p), Red Mitchell (b), Elaine Leighton (d).
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, January 24, 1954.

TRACKS:

01 Announcement by Leonard Feather
02 BLUE MOON
03 ALL OF ME
04 MY MAN
05 THEM THERE EYES
06 I CRIED FOR YOU
07 WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO
08 I COVER THE WATERFRONT
09 BILLIE’S BLUES
10 LOVER, COME BACK TO ME
11 BLUE TURNING GRAY OVER YOU
12 BE FAIR WITH ME BABY [aka BE FAIR TO ME]
13 ROCKY MOUNTAIN BLUES
14 DETOUR AHEAD
15 TRAV’LIN’ LIGHT
16 HE’S FUNNY THAT WAY
17 ALL OF ME
18 MY MAN
19 THEM THERE EYES
20 I CRIED FOR YOU
21 DON’T EXPLAIN
22 FINE AND MELLOW
23 WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO

Total Time: 74:51