Billie Holiday

2-CD SET + 22 BONUS TRACKS

COMPLETE ON A SINGLE SET FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!
INCLUDES 1 PREVIOULSY UNRELEASED TRACK!!

The Storyville Club, first located downstairs in the Copley Square Hotel in Boston, was opened by jazz promoter and producer George Wein in 1950. Ahead of its time, it was a magnet for music titans like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Lennie Tristano, and Dave Brubeck, who performed there regularly. In February 1951 it relocated to the Hotel Buckminster in Kenmore Square but returned to the Copley Square Hotel in 1953 –this time at street level. In 1959, the club moved to the Bradford Hotel on Tremont St. for one year.

Billie Holiday’s Storyville broadcasts present her in three phases of her last decade, which coincide with the aforementioned three different locations of the club: 1951, 1953 and 1959. This set presents all of her surviving Storyville performances for the first time ever on a single set. On the four opening tracks –one of them never before released – she is backed by the great Stan Getz in their only recordings together. All of this material appears here with the original radio announcements (those that still exist) and with the best sound quality ever. The Storyville broadcasts have been complemented here with 22 bonus tracks consisting of additional rare radio and TV shows by the singer recorded between 1955 and 1958.

BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals
On all tracks, plus:

CD 1 [1-4]: STAN GETZ, tenor sax; BUSTER HARDING, piano; JIMMY RANEY, guitar;
TEDDY KOTICK, bass; TINY KAHN, drums. Storyville Club, Boston, October 28, 1951.

CD 1 [5-20]: BUSTER HARDING, piano; JOHN FIELDS, bass;
MARQUIS FOSTER, drums.
Storyville Club, Boston, October 29-November 1, 1951.

CD 1 [21-28]: CARL DRINKARD, piano; JIMMY WOODE, bass;
PETER LITTMAN, drums.
Storyville Club, Boston, October 12, 1953.

CD 2 [1-6]: MAL WALDRON, piano; CHAMP JONES, bass; ROY HAYNES, drums.
Storyville Club, Boston, April 15, 1959.

CD 2 [7-28] (*) BONUS TRACKS: Rare 1955-58 Billie Holiday broadcasts

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

CD 1: TOTAL TIME: 77:56 Min:

01 AIN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS IF I DO
02 LOVER COME BACK TO ME
03 DETOUR AHEAD (**)
04 YOU’RE DRIVING ME CRAZY
05 HE’S FUNNY THAT WAY
06 BILLIE’S BLUES
07 MISS BROWN TO YOU
08 BILLIE’S BLUES #2
09 LOVER MAN
10 THEM THERE EYES
11 MY MAN
12 I COVER THE WATERFRONT
13 CRAZY HE CALLS ME
14 LOVER COME BACK TO ME
15 DETOUR AHEAD #2
16 STRANGE FRUIT
17 AIN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS IF I DO #2
18 ALL OF ME
19 I LOVES YOU PORGY
20 MISS BROWN TO YOU #2
21 Announcement by John McLellan
22 I COVER THE WATERFRONT
23 TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS
24 I LOVES YOU, PORGY #2
25 THEM THERE EYES #2
26 WILLOW WEEP FOR ME
27 I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU
28 YOU GO TO MY HEAD

(**) PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED

CD 2: TOTAL TIME: 74:42 Min.

01 NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
02 WILLOW WEEP FOR ME
03 WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE
04 BILLIE’S BLUES
05 TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS
06 LOVER COME BACK TO ME
07 Interview with Steve Allen (*)
08 I DON’T STAND A GHOST OF A CHANCE (*)
09 PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I’M GONE
10 NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (*)
11 GOD BLESS THE CHILD (*)
12 PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I’M GONE #2 (*)
13 DON’T EXPLAIN (*)
14 I LOVES YOU PORGY (*)
15 WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO (*)
16 FOOLIN’ MYSELF (*)
17 EASY TO REMEMBER (*)
18 MOANIN’ LOW (*)
19 DON’T EXPLAIN #2 (*)
20 WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE (*)
21 WILLOW WEEP FOR ME (*)
22 I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU (*)
23 MY MAN (*)
24 PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I’M GONE (*)
25 MY MAN (*)
26 THEM THERE EYES (*)
27 LOVER MAN (*)
28 FINE AND MELLOW (*)