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Track Listing
1. I Cried For You - (with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra)
2. What a Little Moonlight Can Do - (with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra)
3. Me, Myself and I
4. Without Your Love
5. Strange Fruit
6. Yesterdays
7. Some Other Spring
8. Solitude - (with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra)
9. God Bless the Child
10. Gloomy Sunday
11. I Cover the Waterfront - (with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra)
12. Trav'lin' Light - (with Whiteman & His Orchestra)
13. Lover Man - (with Toots Camarata & His Orchestra)
14. Don't Explain
15. Good Morning, Heartache
16. Autumn in New York
17. Lady Sings the Blues
18. Fine and Mellow
19. You've Changed - (with Ray Ellis & His Orchestra)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Billie Holiday (vocals); Toots Camarata (conductor); Johnny Hodges, Tab Smith (alto saxophone); Ben Webster, Lester Young, Flip Phillips, Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone); Harry Carney, Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone); Roy Eldridge, Buck Clayton, Charlie Shavers, Joe Guy, Doc Cheatham (trumpet); Urbie Green, J.J. Johnson (trombone); Benny Goodman (clarinet); Teddy Wilson, Eddie Heywood, Oscar Peterson, Mal Waldron (piano); John Trueheart, Freddie Green, Tiny Grimes, Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell (guitar); John Kirby, Walter Page, Ray Brown, Milt Hinton (bass); Cozy Cole, Jo Jones, J.C. Heard, Sid Catlett, Alvin Stoller, Chico Hamilton, Osie Johnson (drums).
Compilation producers: Richard Seidel, Ben Young.
Recorded between 1935 and 1958. Includes liner notes by Phil Bailey.
Digitally remastered by Kevin Reeves (Universal Mastering Studios-East).
This is part of the Verve Records Ken Burns JAZZ series.
Whatever gripes one may have with the short shrift given post-bebop jazz in Ken Burns's ten-part TV documentary JAZZ, he took great care in presenting the work of jazz's early pioneers, even to the extent of releasing a series of compilations by jazz figureheads that achieved a cross-licensing coup previously unimagined. For Holiday and the other jazz greats covered in these discs, the entirety of their career is sampled, regardless of the record label.
Thus, this collection affords us the opportunity of hearing everything from "Lover Man" to "Autumn in New York," and moving from Decca to Verve recordings with impunity. As is the case with many of the other compilations in this series, if you're looking for a single disc that represents all the phases of the artist's career, this is probably it.
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