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Format: CD
Jun 1994
2 Discs
Record Label: Verve (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 731452300324 |
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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Blue Moon
2. Nice Work If You Can Get It
3. Yesterdays
4. Easy to Love
5. Prelude to a Kiss
6. Day in, Day Out
7. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
8. Embraceable You
9. Love Is Here to Stay
10. Too Marvelous For Words
11. Cheek to Cheek
12. Come Rain or Come Shine
13. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
14. I Thought About You
15. Fine Romance, A
16. P.S. I Love You
17. Always
DISC 2:
1. Do Nothing till You Hear From Me
2. I Get a Kick Out of You
3. Say It Isn't So
4. How Deep Is the Ocean?
5. Trav'lin' Light - (with Tony Scott's Orchestra)
6. Remember
7. Stormy Weather
8. One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
9. But Not For Me
10. Solitude
11. I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
12. Just One of Those Things
13. Love For Sale
14. Foggy Day, A
15. All of You - (with Ray Ellis Orchestra)
16. Sophisticated Lady
17. They Can't Take That Away From Me
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Billie Holiday (vocals); Benny Carter, Willie Smith (alto saxophone); Flip Phillips, Paul Quinchette, Ben Webster, Budd Johnson, Al Cohn (tenor saxophone); Danny Bank (baritone saxophone); Charlie Shavers, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Joe Newman, Joe Wilder (trumpet); Billy Byers (trombone); Tony Scott (clarinet); Jimmy Rowles, Billy Taylor, Bobby Tucker, Wynton Kelly, Hank Jones (piano); Oscar Peterson (piano, organ); Freddie Green, Barney Kessel, Billy Bauer, Kenny Burrell, Barry Galbraith (guitar); Ray Brown, John Simmons, Red Mitchell, Leonard Gaskin, Red Callender, Joe Mondragon, Aaron Bell, Milt Hinton (bass); Cozy Cole, Larry Bunker, Alvin Stoller, Gus Johnson, Chico Hamilton, Ed Shaughnessy, Osie Johnson (drums).
Producers: Norman Granz, Ray Ellis.
Compilation producer: Michael Lang.
Includes liner notes by Chris Albertson.
Digitally remastered by Andrew Nicholas (Polygram Studios).
This is part of the Verve Postage Stamp series.
Part of Verve's "Postage Stamp" collection, FIRST ISSUE culls two discs worth of some of Billie's finer recordings made between 1952 and 1959 on the Verve and later-to-be Verve Clef labels. As on Ella's songbook series, all of the selected material is written by eight of America's finest popular composers ever--Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and other obvious choices. While Billie's voice does at times betray the wear-and-tear of a stormy life, she makes these classics come alive and swing buoyantly nonetheless.
"Blue Moon" is airily sweet, while "Nice Workà" has tasteful sass and complimentary blowing by Harry "Sweets" Edison. "Stormy Weather" and "Trav'lin' Light" prove that Billie could still sing a lovely ballad, the latter including some perfectly moody background guitar lines by a young Kenny Burrell (though unfortunately recorded as if he was standing out in the hall). These sessions should be an ear-opener to early-years purists.
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