Billie's Blues
Blue Note, 1988
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No covers, sorry
Most of this excellent CD features one of Billie Holiday's finest concert recordings of the 1950s. Recorded in Europe before an admiring audience, this enjoyable set finds Lady Day performing seven of her standards with her trio and joining in for jam session versions of "Billie's Blues" and "Lover Come Back to Me" with an all-star group starring clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, vibraphonist Red Norvo and guitarist Jimmy Raney. These performances (which find Holiday in stronger voice than on her studio recordings of the period) have also been included in Verve's massive CD box set. This program concludes with Holiday's four rare sides for Aladdin in 1951 (between her Decca and Verve periods) which are highlighted by two blues and "Detour Ahead," and her 1942 studio recording of "Trav'lin' Light" with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra.
~Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Tracklist
1. Announcement By Leonard Feather
2. Blue Moon (live)
3. All Of Me (live)
4. My Man (live)
5. Them Their Eyes (live)
6. I Cried For You (live)
7. What A Little Moonlight Can Do (live)
8. I Cover The Waterfront (live)
9. Anouncement By Billie Holiday (hidden track)
10. Billie's Blues (live)
11. Lover Come Back To Me (live)
12. Blue Turning Grey Over You
13. Be Fair With Me Baby
14. Rocky Mountain Blues
15. Detour Ahead
16. Trav'lin' Light
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