Billie Holiday

This release contains the classic original album Lady in Satin in its entirety. It marks Holiday's last big hit and her second to last album ever. As a bonus, we have included 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, vocals / RAY ELLIS AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Featuring J.J. Johnson, Urbie Green (tb}, Mel Davis (tp),
Phil Bodner, Romeo Penque (reeds), Mal Waldron (p),
Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Don Lamond (d), among others.
New York, February 18-20, 1858.

[13-17] BONUS TRACKS:
Blllie Holiday (vcl), Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp), Benny Carter (as),
Jimmy Rowles (p), John Simmons (b), Larry Bunker (d).
Los Angeles. August 23 & 25, 1955.

[18]: THE SOUND OF JAZZ( STUDIO RECORDINGS):
Billie Holiday (vcl), 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 (VCL), Buck Clayton (tp), Mal Waldron (p),
unknown bass and drums.
Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, September 9, 1958.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01 I'm a Fool to Want You 3:25
02 For Heaven's Sake 3:29
03 You Don't Know What Love Is 3:51
04 I Get Along Without You Very Well l3:01
05 For All We Know 2:55
06 Violets For Your Furs 3:26
07 You've Changed 3:20
08 It's Easy To Remember 4:03
09 But Beautiful 4:32
10 Glad to Be Unhappy 4:09
11 I' Be Around 3:26
12 The End of a Love Affair 4:48
13 Prelude to a Kiss 5:35 *
14 A Ghost Of A Chance 4:26 *
15 Gone with the Wind 3:23 *
16 Come Rain or Come Shine 4:22 *
17 What's New? 4:16 *
18 Fine and Mellow 6:21 *
19 When Your Lover Has Gone 2:30*
20 Don' t Explain 2:51*“It is Billie Holiday, whom I first heard on 52nd Street Club in the Thirties, who was and still remains the greatest single musical influence on me.” Frank Sinatra

“It hit me finally. It didn' t matter whether the sang the right note or the wrong one, because she sang 25,000 wrong notes on that one. She poured her heart out…” Ray Ellis