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Format: CD
Mar 1993
10 Discs
Record Label: Verve (USA)
Recording Type: Mixed
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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Body and Soul
2. Strange Fruit
3. I Cried For You
4. Fine and Mellow
5. He's Funny That Way
6. Man I Love, The
7. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
8. All of Me
9. Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)
10. Travelin' Light
11. He's Funny That Way
12. Norman Granz Announcement
13. You Better Go Now
14. You're Driving Me Crazy
15. There Is No Greater Love
16. I Cover the Waterfront
17. Norman Granz Announcement
18. East of the Sun
19. Blue Moon
20. You Go to My Head
21. You Turned the Tables on Me
22. Easy to Love
23. These Foolish Things
24. I Only Have Eyes For You
25. Solitude
DISC 2:
1. Everything I Have Is Yours
2. Love For Sale
3. Moonglow
4. Tenderly
5. If the Moon Turns Green
6. Remember
7. Autumn in New York
8. Autumn in New York
9. My Man
10. Lover, Come Back to Me
11. Stormy Weather
12. Yesterdays
13. He's Funny That Way
14. I Can't Face the Music
15. MC and Leonard Feather Announcements
16. Blue Moon
17. All of Me
18. My Man
19. Them There Eyes
20. I Cried For You
21. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
22. I Cover the Waterfront
23. Leonard Feather Announcement
24. Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)
DISC 3:
1. Lover, Come Back to Me
2. How Deep Is the Ocean?
3. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
4. I Cried For You
5. Love Me or Leave Me
6. P.S. I Love You
7. Too Marvelous For Words
8. Softly
9. I Thought About You
10. Willow Weep For Me
11. Stormy Blues
12. Say It Isn't So
13. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
14. I Wished on the Moon
15. Always
16. Everything Happens to Me
17. Do Nothing till You Hear From Me
18. Ain't Misbehavin'
DISC 4:
1. Nice Work If You Can Get It
2. Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It
3. Mandy Is Two
4. Prelude to a Kiss
5. I Must Have That Man!
6. Jeepers Creepers
7. Jeepers Creepers
8. Discussion; Jeepers Creepers
9. Discussion; Jeepers Creepers
10. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
11. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
12. Discussion; Moonlight in Vermont
13. Misery
14. Restless
15. Moonlight in Vermont
16. Everything Happens to Me
17. Discussion
18. I Don't Want to Cry Any More
19. I Don't Want to Cry Any More
20. Discussion; I Don't Want to Cry Any More
21. Everything Happens to Me
22. Discussion
23. When You Are Away, Dear
24. Discussion
25. It Had to Be You
26. Mood That I'm In, The
27. Gone With the Wind
28. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
29. Discussion
30. Sunbonnet Blue, A
31. (I Don't Stand A) Ghost of a Chance
32. Discussion
33. I'm Walkin' Through Heaven With You
34. Discussion
35. Just Friends
36. Nearness of You, The
37. Discussion
38. It's Too Hot For Words
39. They Say
40. I Won't Believe It
DISC 5:
1. I Don't Want to Cry Any More
2. I Don't Want to Cry Any More
3. Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss
4. Studio Talk; Prelude to a Kiss
5. Prelude to a Kiss
6. Ghost of a Chance (I Don't Stand A)
7. When Your Lover Has Gone
8. Studio Talk; When Your Lover Has Gone
9. Studio Talk
10. When Your Lover Has Gone
11. Gone With the Wind
12. Studio Talk
13. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
14. It Had to Be You
15. Studio Talk
16. Nice Work If You Can Get It
17. Come Rain or Come Shine
18. I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
19. What's New?
20. Fine Romance, A - (take 1, incomplete)
21. Fine Romance, A - (take 2, alternate)
22. Fine Romance, A - (take 3, false start)
23. Fine Romance, A - (take 4, incomplete)
24. Fine Romance, A - (take 5, incomplete)
25. Fine Romance, A - (take 6, false start)
26. Fine Romance, A - (take 7, incomplete)
27. Fine Romance, A - (take 8, master take)
28. Studio Talk
29. I Hadn't Anyone till You
DISC 6:
1. I Get a Kick Out of You
2. Everything I Have Is Yours
3. Isn't This a Lovely Day?
4. Discussion; Misery
5. Israel
6. Misery
7. Discussion
8. I Must Have That Man!
9. Discussion
10. Strange Fruit
11. Discussion; God Bless the Child
12. Discussion
13. God Bless the Child
14. God Bless the Child
15. Discussion
16. God Bless the Child
17. One Never Knows Does One?
18. Discussion
19. Beer Barrel Polka (A.K.A. "Roll Out the Barrel")
20. Some of These Days
21. Yiddishe Momme, A
22. Yiddishe Momme, A
23. Discussion
24. Lady's Back in Town
25. Discussion
26. Discussion
27. One Never Knows Does One?
28. Discussion
29. (Unknown Title)
DISC 7:
1. Travelin' Light
2. I Must Have That Man!
3. Some Other Spring
4. Lady Sings the Blues
5. Strange Fruit
6. God Bless the Child
7. Good Morning Heartache
8. No Good Man
9. Do Nothing till You Hear From Me
10. Check to Check
11. I'll Wind
12. Speak Low
13. We'll Be Together Again
14. All or Nothing at All
15. Sophisticated Lady
16. April in Paris
DISC 8:
1. Lady Sings the Blues (With Reading From Lady Sings the Blues)
2. Lady Sings the Blues
3. Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
4. Travelin' Light (With Reading From Lady Sings the Blues)
5. Reading From Lady Sings the Blues
6. Billie's Blues
7. Body and Soul
8. Reading From Lady Sings the Blues
9. Don't Explain
10. Yesterdays
11. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
12. I'll Be Seeing You
13. Reading From Lady Sings the Blues
14. My Man
15. I Cried For You
16. Fine and Mellow
17. I Cover the Waterfront
18. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
19. I Wished on the Moon
20. Moonlight in Vermont
21. Foggy Day, A
22. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
23. Just One of Those Things
24. Studio Talk
25. Just One of Those Things
26. Studio Talk
27. Comes Love - (take 1, alternate)
28. Comes Love - (take 2, false start)
29. Comes Love - (take 3, false start)
30. Comes Love - (take 4, master take)
DISC 9:
1. Day in, Day Out
2. Darn That Dream
3. But Not For Me
4. Body and Soul
5. Studio Talk
6. Just Friends
7. Studio Talk
8. Stars Fell on Alabama
9. Stars Fell on Alabama
10. Studio Talk; Say It Isn't So
11. Say It Isn't So
12. Studio Talk; Our Love Is Here to Stay
13. Our Love Is Here to Stay
14. Studio Talk; One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
15. One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
16. One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
17. They Can't Take That Away From Me
18. Embraceable You
19. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
20. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You?
DISC 10:
1. Wills Conover Announcement
2. Johnny Mercer Announcement
3. Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good
4. Nice Work If You Can Get It
5. Willow Weep For Me
6. My Man
7. Lover, Come Back to Me
8. Lady Sings the Blues
9. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
10. Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good With Conover Announcement
11. Leonard Feather Announcement
12. I Wished on the Moon
13. Lover Man
14. All the Way
15. It's Not For Me to Say
16. I'll Never Smile Again
17. Just One More Chance
18. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
19. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
20. Sometimes I'm Happy
21. You Took Advantage Me
22. There'll Be Some Changes Made
23. 'Deed I Do
24. All of You
25. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
Album Notes
This set includes a 200-page booklet and color reproductions of Billie Holiday's four 10" LP jackets. Of the 10 CDs contained in the set, 8 are comprised of studio and concert recordings, including the debut Carnegie Hall concert, the Jazz At The Philharmonic recordings, Lady Day's last recording session, and 2 unissued alternate takes. The other 2 CDs contain rehearsal sessions.
Includes a 220-page book with liner notes, photographs, reproductions of Billie Holiday's Verve album covers, and extensive interviews with Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Rowles, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Barney Kessel. Of 10 CDs contained in the set, 8 are of studio and concert recordings, including her Carnegie Hall debut concert, Jazz At The Philharmonic recordings, Lady Day's last recording session, and 2 unissued alternate takes. The other 2 CDs contain rehearsal sessions.
Personnel includes: Billie Holiday (vocals); Willie Smith, Benny Carter (alto saxophone); Illinois Jacquet, Wardell Gray, Charlie Ventura, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Flip Phillips (tenor saxophone); Howard McGee, Buck Clayton, Charlie Shavers, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Roy Eldridge (trumpet); Trummy Young (trombone); Red Norvo (vibraphone); Milt Raskin, Ken Kersey, Oscar Peterson, Sonny Clark, Billy Taylor, Jimmy Rowles, Wynton Kelly, Tony Scott, Mal Waldron (piano); Freddie Green (guitar); Tiny Grimes, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis (electric guitar); Charles Mingus, Curly Russell, Al McKibbon, Ray Brown, Red Mitchell, Milt Hinton, Joe Benjamin (bass); David Coleman, J.C. Heard, Alvin Stoller, Ed Shaughnessy, Cozy Cole, Jo Jones (drums).
Producers include: Norman Granz, Ray Ellis, Leonard Feather, Leroy Lovett, Tony Scott.
Compilation producer: Phil Schaap.
Includes liner notes by Buck Clayton, Phil Schaap, Bob Porter, and Joel E. Siegel.
Digitally remastered by Thomas "Curly" Ruff, Suha Gur, Andrew Nicholas, Joseph M. Palmaccio, Patrick Ryan (Polygram Studios).
THE COMPLETE BILLIE HOLIDAY ON VERVE, 1945-1959 won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Recording Package," "Album Notes" and "Historical Album."
TRACK LIST CONTINUED:
Disc 10 (continued from track 11): Leonard Feather Announcement; I Wished On The Moon; Lover Man; All The Way; It's Not For Me To Say; I'll Never Smile Again; Just One More Chance; When It's Sleepy Time Down South; Don't Worry 'Bout Me; Sometimes I'm Happy; You Took Advantage Of Me; There'll Be Some Changes Made; 'Deed I Do; All Of You; Baby Won't You Please Come Home.
Very few contemporary artists are worthy of exhaustive, multiple-CD retrospectives, but the jazz legend Billie Holiday certainly makes the cut. This 10-CD set, with a hard-bound, lavishly photographed accompanying book, is a must for serious fans of Lady Day and those with a deep interest in the history of classic jazz. While some buffs contend that it was Holiday's earlier recordings for Columbia and Decca that were her best, many aficionados find her final recordings during the Verve years to be her richest, most mature and most poignant work. At this point, the heartache in her voice was nearly palpable. The collection--with its multiple takes, rehearsal recordings, transcripts of conversations, interviews with collaborators, live recordings and more--has enough music and history to keep Holiday fans engrossed for years to come.
By the mid-1940s, Holiday's many vices had culminated into full-blown heroin addiction, and her voice--the unique instrument that made her a legend--was beginning to suffer along with her weakened body. But Verve's fine roster of legendary jazzmen--both up-and-comers like Barney Kessel and Oscar Peterson, and aging masters like Ben Webster--bolstered her singing with their sympathetic and masterly accompaniment.
Industry Reviews
...[Billie Holiday] had innate musicianship that surpassed technique and it maintained her art even as her voice and her life deteriorated. In her late career, when she seemed to be operating only on existential pain, she produced singing that reaches the deepest levels of human emotional response...
JazzTimes (03/01/1993)
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