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| Category | Concert DVDs, Music Video - Jazz Movies, Jazz Vocals Videos, Music Video, Pop Music Videos, Music (General), Live Performances, Jazz, Interviews, Jazz Musicians, Jazz Legends, Jazz Vocal, Jazz Vocalists | | Music Performer | Billie Holiday |
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re Fans of Billie Holiday will be delighted to find some rare material on THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION, with rarely seen interviews, TV appearances, and live performances unearthed from the vaults. The treasure trove of delights that awaits eager viewers also includes a chance to read some letters Holiday wrote, and a timeline that charts all her amazing achievements. But it's during the live footage that Holiday really soars, with the late jazz singer working wonders on songs such as "The Blues Are Brewin'" and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone." A carefully curated package aimed at Holiday's loyal fan base, this is a great opportunity to witness her incredible voice, and discover some interesting facts about her life away from the spotlight. Billie Holiday - The Ultimate Collection Reviews: "The performances here -- all slow-burning drama -- are uniformly astounding."
-- Rob Hughes, Uncut "This is probably as good as it gets....Hypnotic."
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Recorded in New York, New York on April 20, 1939 and March 25, April 1 & April 8, 1944. Includes liner notes by Stuart Nicholson.
Recorded in New York, New York between 1939 & 1944. Includes liner notes by J.G. Calvados.
This double-disc issued by Jazz Factory almost completely mirrors the United States issue of the same material entitled THE COMPLETE COMMODORE RECORDINGS, officially issued by Universal in 1997. The material was recorded in 1939 and 1944 by producer Milt Gabler. The original 78 that was "Strange Fruit" b/w "Fine and Mellow," was released by Gabler because Columbia's John Hammond refused to record the song. Holiday was under contract to the label at the time, but Hammond loosed the reins a bit and allowed her the leeway to cut it for Commodore. There are two other sides cut in 1939, and the remainder of these tunes were taped during sessions in 1944 with Holiday backed by the Eddie Heywood Sextet. The material is exactly the same on both collections, but the running order is different, and this one is preferable because it breaks up the different takes chronologically rather than putting them in simple historical order. Either way you go you can't lose, since these are top-notch performances at the very peak of Holiday's power as an artist.
This two-disc box expands on 1988's now out-of-print Commodore disc, BILLIE HOLIDAY, and includes every alternate take extant in the vaults, including five(!) versions of "He's Funny That Way." Since this is Billie Holiday we are speaking of, this exhaustive treatment isn't as excessive as it might appear. After a half-decade's apprenticeship at Columbia Records, Holiday did her first Commodore sessions in 1939, producing the chilling segregation saga ...
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Billie Holiday is at the peak of her vocal powers on these sessions taken from 1944-1950. Though she had cut some historic, memorable tracks and toured nationally with the likes of Count Basie, Lester Young, Buck Clayton and Artie Shaw, her Decca crossover material gave her the pop backing she craved. According to "Toots" Camarata, the arranger and conductor on her first Decca date, when she walked in and saw the string ensemble she was so overwhelmed she turned right around and walked out.
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