The Hits - Billie Holiday - Music - NEW CONTINENT - 8436569194584 - August 30, 2019
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Billie Holiday
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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.

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).

Orchestras conducted by Ray Ellis, Toots Camarata & Sy Oliver, among others.

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

60 TRACKS!!

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 3
Specielt cover Digipak
Released August 30, 2019
EAN/UPC 8436569194584
Label NEW CONTINENT 648062
Genre Jazz
Dimensions 15 × 125 × 145 mm   ·   324 g
number of tracks 60

Track list

  1. 1.   CD  

    1. Strange Fruit [verve Version]
    2. P.s. I Love You
    3. We'll Be Together Again
    4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
    5. Trav'lin' Light
    6. Good Morning, Heartache
    7. Body and Soul
    8. These Foolish Things
    9. 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]

  2. 2.   CD  

    1. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
    2. A Foggy Day
    3. Ain't Misbehavin'
    4. Just One of Those Things
    5. All of Me
    6. Too Marvelous for Words
    7. Lover Come Back to Me
    8. They Can't Take That Away from Me
    9. 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

  3. 3.   CD  

    1. Billie's Blues [1936 Columbia Version]
    2. Everything Happens for the Best
    3. Long Gone Blues
    4. Our Love is Different
    5. Tell Me More
    6. God Bless the Child [1941 Columbia Version]
    7. Fine and Mellow [1939 Commodore Version]
    8. Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)[1944 Commodore Version]
    9. 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

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