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In the U.S. as well as Europe, so many Billie Holiday collections have been available on CD that if you're exploring her music for the first time, it's hard to know where to begin. Assembled by Stardust in 2000, this two-CD set isn't recommended to beginners or novices. Anthology: 1944-1959 does contain some of Lady Day's important Decca recordings of the 1940s, including "Lover Man" from 1944, "Don't Explain" from 1945, and her heartbreaking 1948 version of "My Man." But most of the other material falls short of essential; in fact, the 1958 and 1959 recordings that Stardust provides underscore her decline as a vocalist and will only be of interest to completists. Spanning 15 years, this collection shows us how much her voice declined over the years. The Decca recordings of the 1940s find Holiday in peak form, and she is in generally decent form on 11 live performances that were recorded at Boston's famous Storyville in 1951. But Holiday's voice deteriorated rapidly in the 1950s, and she doesn't have much of a voice left on various performances from 1958 and 1959 (including four songs that were recorded at Storyville on April 20, 1959, less than three months before her death on July 17 of that year). Holiday was in her early forties in 1958-1959, but her voice was in such rough shape that she sounded like could have been 35 years older. Though the late-'50s material isn't without historic value, it won't appeal to casual listeners, who would be much better off with collections of the essential recordings that Holiday provided for Columbia in the 1930s and early '40s, Commodore in 1939 and 1944, and Decca in the 1940s. Anthology: 1944-1959 is only recommended to collectors and serious jazz historians. ~ Alex Henderson

Recorded between October 1944 and April 1959. Includes liner notes by Athan Maroulis.

Personnel includes: Billie Holiday (vocals); Toots Camarata (conductor); Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Georgie Auld, Stan Getz (tenor saxophone); Joe Guy, Doc Cheatham (trumpet); Vic Dickenson (trombone); Bobby Tucker, Corky Hale, Mal Waldron (piano); Mundell Lowe, Tiny Grimes (guitar); Bob Haggart, John Levy, Champ Jones (bass); Specs Powell, Nick Fatool, Denzil Best, Jo Jones, Osie Johnson, Roy Haynes (drums); The Skitch Henderson Orchestra.

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List Price $17.98 (You save $3.69)
Category Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Jazz Vocals, Vocal, Enhanced CD
Label Stardust
Orig Year 2000
All Time Sales Rank   261150  
CD Universe Part number 6842996
Catalog number 1494
Discs 2
Release Date May 10, 2005
Studio/Live Mixed
Mono/Stereo Mixed
Personnel Billie Holiday - vocals
Jo Jones
Osie Johnson
Nick Fatool
Georgie Auld
Vic Dickenson - trombone
Bob Haggart
Tiny Grimes - guitar
Denzil Best
Joe Guy

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Additional Info Deluxe Edition; Digipak
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Anthology CD DISC 1:
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample1.I Love My Man$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample2.Don't Explain  
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample3.God Blessthe Child
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample4.My Man  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample5.I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You  
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample6.Fine and Mellow$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample7.Foolin' Myself  
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample8.Easy to Remember  
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample9.What a Little Moonlight Can Do  $0.69
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample10.God Bless the Child - (Millennium remix)
Anthology Songs DISC 2: OCTOBER 29, 30 & 31 1951:
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample1.He's Funny That Way  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample2.Them There Eyes
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample3.I Cover the Waterfront  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample4.Crazy He Calls Me$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample5.Detour Ahead$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample6.Strange Fruit  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample7.Ain't Nobody's Business  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample8.All of Me  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample9.I Loves You Porgy$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample10.Miss Brown to You  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample11.You're Driving Me Crazy  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample12.Nice Work If You Can Get It$0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample13.When Your Lover Has Gone  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample14.I Love My Man (Billie's Blues)
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample15.Lover Come Back to Me  $0.99

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