Album
The Essential Billie Holiday (Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live)
1961 · Jazz
3 collectors on Gatefold own this
The Essential Billie Holiday (Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live) is a Jazz album by Billie Holiday, originally released in 1961. On Gatefold: 33 pressings tracked, owned by 3 collectors.
About
Many of these earliest Billie Holiday sides were released on Brunswick and Vocalion, important labels that got subsumed by Columbia, so it still makes sense to look at this body of work—some of the greatest recorded jazz in history—as the “Columbia Year.” Holiday was often featured with the Teddy Wilson Orchestra, but also under her own name, sometimes with legendary figures from what would become known as Count Basie’s “Old Testament” period. This package presents a glorious sampling of that young Lady Day, full of swing and interpretive fearlessne, an heir to Louis Armstrong’s rough, improvisatory style but with her own emotional center. And even as a side-person on a date, as critic Gary Giddins has noted, “her contributions never indicate an obligatory vocal refrain of the sort bandleaders included to sell a lyric. Holiday’s choruses are genuine solo.” .
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Tracklist
- 1What a Little Moonlight Can Do (78rpm Version)2:55
- 2These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)3:17
- 3I Cried for You3:11
- 4Summertime (78rpm Version)2:53
- 5Billie's Blues (78rpm Version)2:37
- 6If You Were Mine3:09
- 7A Fine Romance (78rpm Version)2:51
- 8Easy to Love3:10
- 9I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm2:55
- 10I Must Have That Man2:54
- 11Me, Myself and I2:35
- 12They Can't Take That Away from Me3:01
- 13Easy Living3:02
- 14A Sailboat In the Moonlight2:48
- 15Trav'lin' All Alone2:12
- 16When a Woman Loves a Man2:23
- 17You Go to My Head2:52
- 18Billie's Blues3:01
- 2.1I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me (Alternate Take)2:48
- 2.2The Very Thought of You (78rpm Version)2:44
- 2.3I Can't Get Started2:46
- 2.4Long Gone Blues3:04
- 2.5Sugar2:44
- 2.6Some Other Spring3:00
- 2.7Them There Eyes2:48
- 2.8The Man I Love3:04
- 2.9Body and Soul2:56
- 2.10Swing! Brother, Swing!2:54
- 2.11Night and Day2:57
- 2.12Let's Do It2:54
- 2.13God Bless the Child (78rpm Version)2:54
- 2.14Solitude (78rpm Version)3:13
- 2.15I Cover the Waterfront2:55
- 2.16Gloomy Sunday3:10
- 2.17Until the Real Thing Comes Along3:08
- 2.18All of Me3:50
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Vocal Jazz
- warm
- melancholic
- smoky
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Billie HolidayVOCALS
- Buck ClaytonTRUMPET
- Carl DrinkardPIANO
- Carson SmithBASS
- Chico HamiltonDRUMS
- Kenny BurrellGUITAR
- Roy EldridgeTRUMPET
- Al CohnSAXOPHONE TENOR SAXOPHONE
- Coleman HawkinsSAXOPHONE TENOR SAXOPHONE
- Tony ScottCLARINET PIANO
3 collectors on Gatefold own this · 33 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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