Billie Holiday

DIGIPACK EDITION

INCLUDES 8 BONUS TRACKS

This release contains the classic original album "Lady in Satin" (Columbia CS8048) in its entirety. It marks Holiday's last big hit and her second to last album ever. As a bonus, five ballads from a 1955 session with Harry Edison and Benny Carter, the rare 1957 studio version of "Fine and Mellow" with Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, and Holiday's only two performances from the 1958 Jazz at the Plaza concert.

PERSONNEL:

BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocal with the RAY ELLIS ORCHESTRA
New York, February 18-20. 1958

BONUS TRACKS:

[13-17] Billie Holiday (voc); Harry "Sweets" Edison (to); Benny Carter (as)
Jimmy Rowles (p); John Simmons (b); Larry Bunker (d)
Los Angeles, August 23 & 25, 1955

[18] THE SOUND OF JAZZ (Studio recordin):
Billie Holiday (voc); Doc Cheatham (tp); Vic Dickenson (tb)
Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins (ts), Mal Waldron (p)
Danny Barker (g); Jim Atlas (b); Jo Jones (d)
New York, December 5, 1957

[19-20] JAZZ AT THE PLAZA (live)
Billie Holiday (voc); Buck Clayton (tp); Mal Waldron (p), unknown bass and drums.
Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, September 9, 1958

TRACKS:

01. I'M A Fool To Want You
02. For Heaven'S Sake
03. You Don'T Know What Love Is
04. I Get Along Without You Very Well
05. For All We Know
06. Violets For Your Furs
07. You'Ve Changed
08. It'S Easy To Remember
09. But Beautiful
10. Glad To Be Unhappy
11. I'Ll Be Around
12. The End Of A Love Affair
13. Prelude To A Kiss
14. A Ghost Of A Chance
15. Gone With The Wind
16. Come Rain Or Come Shine
17. What'S New?
18. Fine And Mellow
19. When Your Lover Has Gone
20. Don'T Explain

Total Time: 78:17 min.