God Bless The Child By Billie Holiday

Track Listing: DISC 1: Stardust; Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room); Memphis Blues; Livery Stable Blues; Charleston (South Carolina); Chimes Blues; Backwater Blues; Pearls, The; Dead Man Blues; Wild Cat Blues; Cake Walking Babies from Home; Sugar ...

One of the more blues-influenced singers from the golden age of jazz singers, Billie Holiday, by altering her phrasing, dropping it in behind the beat, and then slipping into a harmony melody (she always said she tried to sing like ...

THE COMPLETE VERVE STUDIO MASTER TAKES makes a definitive and compelling case for Holiday's Verve tenure. Packaged in a deep-dish metallic box (which resembles the world's most beautiful lunch pail), THE COMPLETE comprises six CDs, a 60-page booklet filled with ...

Recorded between 1944 and 1950. Includes liner notes by Steven Lasker and an interview with Milt Gabler by Andy McKaie. Early Billie Holliday recordings are pretty bulletproof stuff, and this collection is no exception. Holliday's work from the Thirties and early ...

Recorded between 1946 and 1959. Includes liner notes by Joel E. Siegel. Digitally remastered by Dennis Drake, Andrew Nicholas, Thomas Ruff and Mark Wilder (PolyGram Studios) and Gert Van Hoeyen (PolyGram, The Netherlands). Without question the greatest jazz singer there has ever ...

Recorded between 1939 & 1956. Includes liner notes by Joseph F. Laredo. While it can't hope to compete with the impressive box sets of her work or even more specialized single-disc collections, 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best ...

Jazz completists and Billie Holiday aficionados will want to seek out 2001's 10-CD compendium LADY DAY: THE COMPLETE BILLIE HOLIDAY ON COLUMBIA, which covers the legendary singer's entire output on Columbia between 1933 and 1944. Yet that set's price, length, ...

This unique and thoughtful compilation brings together four of the best tunes by four of the greatest female jazz singers in history. As a result, listeners can compare and contrast the exuberant joy of Ella Fitzgerald's "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" and her ...

Recorded between 1935 and 1958. Includes liner notes by Phil Bailey. Digitally remastered by Kevin Reeves (Universal Mastering Studios-East). 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 ...

Meticulously selected, lovingly assembled, and beautifully packaged, this two-CD/one-DVD collection is a true retrospective, featuring representative cuts from the length of Billie Holiday's career across a range of labels. While most compilations focus on one period of the legendary singer's ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: Strange Fruit; Yesterdays; Fine and Mellow; I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues; How Am I to Know; My Old Flame; I'll Get By; I Cover the Waterfront; I'll Be Seeing You; I'm Yours; Embraceable You; ...

Since the range of recording dates for Verve Records' Billie Holiday compilation The Definitive Collection stretches from her first session in 1935 to her last in 1958, it might be supposed that the album attempts to live up to its ...

Recording information: 01/06/1938; 01/12/1937; 01/12/1938; 01/25/1937; 01/30/1939; 02/10/1942; 02/29/1940; 03/21/1939; 03/21/1941; 04/01/1937; 05/09/1941; 05/11/1938; 06/01/1937; 06/15/1937; 06/30/1936; 07/02/1935; 07/05/1939; 07/10/1936; 08/07/1941; 09/13/1937; 09/15/1938; 09/29/1936; 10/21/1936; 10/25/1935; 11/01/1937; 12/13/1939. Photographer: Timme Rosenkrantz. Personnel: Billie Holiday (vocals). Liner Note Author: Gary Giddins.

Recorded at the first Monterey Jazz Festival on October 5, 1958 less than a year before Billie died. Backed by her trio consisting of Mal Waldron-Piano, Eddie Khan-Bass and Dick Berk-Drums they are augmented halfway through the set by Gerry ...

Digitally remastered by Tom "Curly" Ruff and Phil Schaap (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York). NYC radio personality/jazz whiz Phil Schaap should be elected the pope of jazz (or at least, of Greenwich Village) for this superbly selected and annotated ...

Some Holiday fans embrace the very weariness and faults of her late recordings that others find heartbreaking and disappointing. These sessions from 1955 and 1956 clearly show the results of a life marked by alcohol and drug abuse, horrific love ...

Pulled from old 78s, this isn't the place to start your Billie Holiday collection by a long shot. But this two-disc set is a pretty great overview of Lady Day's rise to greatness, featuring her own early sessions as well ...

Recorded between 1939 & 1957. Includes liner notes by Will Friedwald. Part of Verve's Diva Series of compilations, this Billie Holiday collection is by no means the definitive account of her career -- Columbia's Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday ...

10 disc set features all of Billie's hits including 'I Wished On The Moon', 'I Can't Get Started', 'April In My Heart', 'Our Love Is Different', 'Good Morning Heartache', 'When A Woman Loves A Man', 'You're Just A No Account' ...

This Verve sampler has actor/comedian Billy Crystal selecting his favorite tracks by the great Billie Holiday, an unlikely association if ever there was one. However, the connection is not merely arbitrary. Milt Gabler, a producer who helped craft some of ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: Georgia On My Mind; Blue Moon; Autumn In New York; I Can't Face The Music; I Hear Music; Love For Sale; Moon Flow; My Man; Night & Day; Solitude; Stormy Weather; East Of The Sun; Easy ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: I'll Get By; My Man; As Time Goes By; I Love You Porgy; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys; Why Was I Born; Keep on Rainin; Night ...

Recorded between 1952 and 1956. Includes liner notes by Jessica Raimi. Throughout her illustrious and tragic career, Billie Holiday always surrounded herself in the recording studio with the best players in the business, and this CD is no exception. In spite ...

While the instrumentation is clearly an attempt at broadening Holiday's appeal to reach the modern pop market, such tracks as "Them There Eyes" actually sound right at home with these new arrangements. The focal point, of course, is Holiday's voice. ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: RARE LIVE RECORDINGS 1935; Lost My Man Blues; Theme: Moten Swing; Announcer Introduction; Swing Brother Swing; Announcer Introduction; They Can't Take That Away From Me; I Cried For You; Fine and Mellow; Announcer Introduction; I'll Get ...