Billie Holiday

3-CD SET WITH ESSENTIAL ORIGINAL ALBUMS

DELUXE 5-PANEL DIGIPACK

INCLUDES 20-PAGE BOOKLET

This release contains some of the best recordings made by Billie Holiday in the later period of her career. All of the tracks included here are studio recordings with excellent sound quality, and showcase Billie shining among such star jazzmen as Harry “Sweets” Edison, Ben Webster, Benny Carter, Charlie Shavers, Oscar Peterson, and Barney Kessel, among others.

The six complete albums compiled on this set are: Music for Torching with Billie Holiday (Clef MGC- 669), Velvet Mood (Clef MGC-713), Lady Sings the Blues (Clef Records MG C-721), Solitude (Clef LP MG C-690), Songs for Distingué Lovers (Verve V6-8257), and Body and Soul (Verve V6-8197).

PERSONNEL:

BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocasl on all tracks, plus:

CD 1 [1-8]: MUSIC FOR TORCHING
HARRY “SWEETS” EDISON (tp), BENNY CARTER (as), JIMMY ROWLES (p),
BARNEY KESSEL (g), JOHN SIMMONS (b), LARRY BUNKER (d).
Hollywood, August 23 & 25, 1955.

CD 1 [9-16]: VELVET MOOD
Same personnel & dates as above.

CD 2 [1-12]: LADY SINGS THE BLUES
ON 1-8: CHARLIE SHAVERS (tp), TONY SCOTT (cl), PAUL QUINICHETTE (cl, arr),
WYNTON KELLY (p), KENNY BURRELL (g), AARON BELL (b),
LENNIE McBROWNE (d). New York, June 6-7, 1956.

ON 9-12: HARRY “SWEETS” EDISON (tp), WILLIE SMITH (as), BOBBY TUCKER (p),
BARNEY KESSEL (g), RED CALLENDER (b), CHICO HAMILTON (d).
Los Angeles, September 3, 1954.

CD 2 [13-24]: SOLITUDE
CHARLIE SHAVERS (tp), FLIP PHILLIPS (ts), OSCAR PETERSON (p),
BARNEY KESSEL (g), RAY BROWN (b), ALVIN STOLLER OR J.C. HEARD (d).
Los Angeles, May 1952.

CD 3 [1-6]: SONGS FOR DISTINGUÉ LOVERS
BEN WEBSTER (ts), HARRY “SWEETS” EDISON (tp), JIMMY ROWLES (p),
BARNEY KESSEL (g), RED MITCHELL (b), ALVIN STOLLER (d).
Hollywood, California January 3-8, 1957.

CD 3 [7-15]: BODY AND SOUL
Same personnel as above except LARRY BUNKER (d) replaces STOLLER on 8, 10 &
12-13. Same place & date as above.

CD 1: TOTAL TIME: 71:36

01 It Had To Be You
02 Come Rain Or Come Shine
03 I Don’t Want To Cry Anymore
04 I Don’t Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
05 A Fine Romance
06 Gone With The Wind
07 I Get A Kick Out Of You
08 Isn’t This A Lovely Day?
09 Prelude To A Kiss
10 When Your Lover Has Gone
11 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
12 Nice Work If You Can Get It
13 I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
14 What’s New?
15 I Hadn’t Anyone Till You
16 Everything I Have Is Yours

CD 2: TOTAL TIME: 78:02

01 Trav’lin’ Light
02 I Must Have That Man!
03 Some Other Spring
04 Lady Sings The Blues
05 Strange Fruit
06 God Bless The Child
07 Good Morning, Heartache
08 No Good Man
09 Love Me Or Leave Me
10 Too Marvelous For Words
11 Willow Weep For Me
12 I Thought About You
13 East Of The Sun
14 Blue Moon
15 You Go To My Head
16 You Turned The Tables On Me
17 Easy To Love
18 These Foolish Things
19 I Only Have Eyes For You
20 Solitude
21 Everything I Have Is Yours
22 Love For Sale
23 Moonglow
24 Tenderly

CD 3: TOTAL TIME: 78:11

01 Day In, Day Out
02 A Foggy Day
03 Stars Fell On Alabama
04 One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
05 Just One Of Those Things
06 I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
07 Body And Soul
08 They Can’t Take That Away From Me
09 Darn That Dream
10 Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
11 Comes Love
12 Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good To You
13 Embraceable You
14 Moonlight In Vermont
15 I Wished On The Moon