Billie Holiday

Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert (9152260)

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Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert

Billie Holiday

Pan Am Records

8436539313434

LPS 146880

9152260

JAZZ

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Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert

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LP 14,98 €

The live recordings included here are among the very best from Billie NHoliday’s final years. The mid-fifties were troubled times for Billie. In his biography of the singer, titled Billie’s Blues, John Chilton wrote the following about that period: “Most of the contemporary reviews of Billie’swork that appeared in music magazines during the 1950s dwelt heavily on her past achievements. Lady disliked any comparisons between her earlier records and her later work –she said emphatically that she was singing better than ever, and that was that. But time, a thousand fixes, and a sea of swallowed brandy took its toll on Billie’s health: the warning signswere indicating that it was time to ease up. The years of disregard were shearing away Billie’s vocal technique. She never lost the art of conveying deep emotions, but by the mid-1950s, her range had narrowed considerably, and her voice had taken on a troubled quality. Yet on the nights that Lady felt good, nothing could stop her being the greatest jazz vocalist on earth. She looked as glamorous as ever, and when people spoke of her past as her ‘golden years’, she felt irritated and hurt. She said, ‘Always comebacks,but nobody says where I’ve been’; nothing irked Lady more than wrinkled adults coming up to say, ‘I’ve loved your records since I was a child… so high’.”

PERSONNEL:

BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals
ROY ELDRIDGE, trumpet
COLEMAN HAWKINS, tenor sax
CARL DRINKARD, piano
TONY SCOTT, clarinet (piano on “Lady Sings the Blues” only)
CARSON SMITH, bass
CHICO HAMILTON, drums
GILBERT MILLSTEIN, readings from the book Lady Sings the Blues

Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, November 10, 1956.

SIDE A:

01. Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
02. LADY SINGS THE BLUES
03. IT AIN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS IF I DO
04. TRAVELIN’ LIGHT with reading
05. Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
06. BILLIE’S BLUES
07. BODY AND SOUL
08. Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
09. DON’T EXPLAIN

SIDE B:

01. YESTERDAYS
02. PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I’M GONE
03. I’LL BE SEEING YOU
04. Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
05. MY MAN
06. I CRIED FOR YOU
07. FINE AND MELLOW
08. I COVER THE WATERFRONT
09. OH, WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO