Billie Holiday

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The Hits

Billie Holiday

New Continent

8436569194584

NCT 157907

648062

JAZZ

3

CD 9,99 €

• 3-CD SET EDITION

• 60 TRACKS

• SPECIAL 10-PANEL DIGIPACK

• INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

Contained here are some of the most important recordings by the great Billie Holiday (1915-1959), considered by many to be the best jazz singer of all time. This set’s first CD compiles a selection of Billie’s incredible ballad performances, while the second is devoted to her medium and up-tempo numbers. CD3 features the singer’s studio versions of her own compositions. Four songs from a series of sessions presenting Billie backed by Ben Webster and Harry “Sweets” Edison (also represented on the first two discs) have been added as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

  • BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals on all tracks, plus:
  • COLLECTIVE PERSONNEL:
  • Harry “Sweets” Edison, Charlie Shavers, Roy Eldridge (tp), Ben Webster, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins (ts), Willie Smith, Benny Carter (as), Tony Scott (cl), Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly (p), Kenny Burrell, Barney Kessel (g),Red Mitchell, Ray Brown (b), Chico Hamilton, Alvin Stoller (d).

Recorded in Los Angeles & New York between 1939 & 1959.

TRACKS:

  • CD1: THE BALLADS (77:56)
  • 01 Strange Fruit [Verve version]
  • 02 P.S. I Love You
  • 03 We’ll Be Together Again
  • 04 I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
  • 05 Trav’lin’ Light
  • 06 Good Morning, Heartache
  • 07 Body and Soul
  • 08 These Foolish Things
  • 09 Willow Weep for Me
  • 10 Ill Wind
  • 11 Come Rain or Come Shine
  • 12 I’m a Fool to Want You
  • 13 Gloomy Sunday
  • 14 Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
  • 15 I Thought About You
  • 16 All the Way
  • 17 I Loves You Porgy
  • 18 I’ll Be Seeing You
  • 19 Lover Man
  • 20 Strange Fruit [Commodore version]
  • CD2: THE SWINGER (77:48)
  • 01 What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • 02 A Foggy Day
  • 03 Ain’t Misbehavin’
  • 04 Just One of Those Things
  • 05 All of Me
  • 06 Too Marvelous for Words
  • 07 Lover Come Back to Me
  • 08 They Can’t Take That Away from Me
  • 09 Love Me or Leave Me
  • 10 Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
  • 11 Them There Eyes
  • 12 On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • 13 Stars Fell on Alabama
  • 14 One for My Baby
  • 15 I Wished on the Moon
  • 16 Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You
  • 17 How Deep Is the Ocean?
  • 18 I Hear Music
  • 19 Day In, Day Out
  • 20 Swing, Brother, Swing
  • CD3: THE COMPOSER (75:50)
  • 01 Billie’s Blues [1936 Columbia version]
  • 02 Everything Happens for the Best
  • 03 Long Gone Blues
  • 04 Our Love Is Different
  • 05 Tell Me More
  • 06 God Bless the Child [1941 Columbia version]
  • 07 Fine and Mellow [1939 Commodore version]
  • 08 Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man) [1944 Commodore version]
  • 09 Don’t Explain [1945 Decca version]
  • 10 Now or Never [1949 Decca version]
  • 11 Somebody’s on My Mind
  • 12 God Bless the Child [1950 Decca version]
  • 13 Stormy Blues
  • 14 Lady Sings the Blues
  • 15 God Bless the Child [1956 Verve version]
  • 16 Fine and Mellow [1957 Columbia version]
  • 17 Love Is Here to Stay (*)
  • 18 Embraceable You (*)
  • 19 Darn That Dream (*)
  • 20 But Not For Me (*)
  • (*) BONUS TRACKS