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Billie's Best

by Billie Holiday

Released
September 22, 1992
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Album review

This selection is drawn from Billie Holiday's Verve recordings of the mid-1950s. It was a time when her voice was already showing some wear and tear, but the same experiences that tattered the voice brought it an unmatched expressiveness. Her voice possessed a unique presence, a sound that seems lit up by a resilient vitality. Producer Norman Granz set Holiday among the small jazz combos that suited her talents best, groups that included some of the finest soloists of her generation, such as trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and saxophonists Benny Carter and Ben Webster. Granz also supplied ideal rhythm sections, with pianist Jimmy Rowles and guitarists Kenny Burrell and Barney Kessel making appearances here. There's more room to stretch out than was available on the early Columbia and Commodore recordings, and the results are relaxed and profound treatments of some great songs. --Stuart Broomer

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Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959; born Eleanora Fagan Gough in Baltimore, Maryland, USA), also known as Lady Day, was an American singer widely considered to be one of the greatest, and most influential jazz voices of all time. In the 1930's, she was sought out and signed to sing with jazz greats like Count Basie, Benny Goodman, a...

Track list

  1. A What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday, Woods, Harry
  2. Foggy Day - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
  3. Come Rain or Come Shine - Billie Holiday, Arlen, Harold
  4. Comes Love - Billie Holiday, Brown, Lew
  5. He's Funny That Way - Billie Holiday, Moret, Neil
  6. Stars Fell on Alabama - Billie Holiday, Parish, Mitchell
  7. Gone With the Wind - Billie Holiday, Magidson, Herbert
  8. They Can't Take That Away from Me - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
  9. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) - Billie Holiday, Bowman, Brooks
  10. Everything I Have Is Yours - Billie Holiday, Adamson, Harold
  11. Stormy Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie
  12. Speak Low - Billie Holiday, Nash, Ogden
  13. April in Paris - Billie Holiday, Duke, Vernon
  14. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Billie Holiday, Berlin, Irving
  15. Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr.
  16. All the Way - Billie Holiday, Cahn, Sammy
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