The Best of Billie Holiday: The Master Takes and Singles (4CD)
Columbia, 2008

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This box comes from "The Original Masters series" and its entire title would be "The Best of Billie Holiday: The Master Takes And Singles", the tracklist and mastering is exactly the same of the box "Lady Day - The Master Takes And Singles".
the difference stands in the package and booklet/informations that on this one are poor compared with the more famous "Lady Day - The Master Takes And Singles", it's a question of price that on this one is really a bargain one, but the music that is the most important thing is the same.
Columbia made a different selling commercial choose releasing this one as Sony/BMG at a cheap price and the other one under Columbia/Legacy with a bit different title and deluxe package, IMHO "the best" of is a title quite misleading coming these songs only from her early years, but Billie is great as always, nobody like her can give me the same feelings and emotions, her voice and way to sing are incomparable IMHO.


2008 four CD set. The Original Masters series presents some of the finest recordings by many of the true Jazz legends originally signed to the RCA and Sony labels. With hits, favorites, album tracks, rarities and more, these collections are solid samplers for the aficionados and astounding introductions to those interested in investigating the roots of Jazz. This collection from the famed vocalist features 80 tracks including 'I Wished on The Moon', 'Summertime', 'St. Louis Blues', 'Night & Day' and more.
CD universe

Billie Holiday's story is so huge, her artistry so vast, and her impact so incalculable, that even attempting to corral a representative sampling of it within a single collection of recordings is an overwhelming, perhaps foolhardy task. Many have tried, of course, and literally hundreds of options of varying quality and legitimacy, scattered across dozens of labels, are available to the consumer. Neophytes, or those not willing to commit to a gargantuan listening session, can settle for any number of single- or double-CD best-ofs that adequately present Holiday's most important, better-known music. Columbia/Legacy's single-disc God Bless the Child: The Very Best of Billie Holiday and the same label's two-disc 2001 Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday are ideal for that purpose, the crøme de la Billie, devoid of anything not directly tied to her legend. Meanwhile, the devotee, the collector, and the completist can take ownership of massive pieces of the catalog in box sets that might be lavish and smartly curated or shoddy and unworthy. Among the more essential boxed collections of an American artist's work is Legacy's 2001 ten-CD Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944), whose title speaks for itself: everything the singer recorded for the label during those formative years -- her greatest -- is offered in one place, with no value judgment being made as to what's worthy of inclusion and what isn't. Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles pares that same body of material down to four CDs that go beyond the two-disc set yet don't attempt to make a definitive statement. That earlier mega-box was broken down into six discs of master takes and four of alternate takes and other ephemera. Here the masters are again whittled down, to a total of 80, making for a more manageable and, honestly, more listenable set. These are the songs that made Billie Holiday Billie Holiday, arranged chronologically and sensibly, with an eye not toward the scholar but toward the fan. Like the larger box, one can follow the trajectory of Holiday's ascent here, but it's not as easy to get lost or even bored. Needless to say, the Columbia/Legacy sets only cover Holiday's output for that label and its subsidiaries, and those in pursuit of the larger picture will have to locate the later recordings she made for Commodore, Decca, and Verve elsewhere, although that should not be difficult.
~Jeff Tamarkin (AMG)

Tracklist
CD1
01 - I Wished on the Moon
02 - What a Little Moonlight Can Do
03 - Miss Brown to You
04 - If You Were Mine
05 - These 'n That 'n Those
06 - You Let Me Down
07 - Spreadin' Rhythm Around
08 - Life Begins When You're in Love
09 - It's Like Reaching for the Moon
10 - These Foolish Things
11 - I Cried for You
12 - Did I Remember-
13 - No Regrets
14 - Summertime
15 - Billie's Blues
16 - A Fine Romance
17 - One, Two, Button Your Shoe
18 - Easy To Love
19 - The Way You Look Tonight
20 - Pennies From Heaven

CD2
01 - That's Life I Guess
02 - I Can't Give You Anything But Love
03 - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
04 - He Ain't Got Rhythm
05 - This Year's Kisses
06 - Why Was I Born-
07 - I Must Have That Man
08 - The Mood That I'm In
09 - You Showed Me the Way
10 - My Last Affair
11 - Moanin' Low
12 - Where Is the Sun-
13 - Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
14 - They Can't Take That Away from Me
15 - Don't Know If I'm Comin' Or Goin'
16 - I'll Get By
17 - Mean to Me
18 - Foolin' Myself
19 - Easy Living
20 - I'll Never Be the Same

CD3
01 - Me, Myself and I
02 - A Sailboat in the Moonlight
03 - Without Your Love
04 - Trav'lin' All Alone
05 - He's Funny That Way
06 - Nice Work If You Can Get It
07 - Things Are Looking Up
08 - My Man
09 - Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
10 - When You're Smiling
11 - On the Sentimental Side
12 - When a Woman Loves a Man
13 - You Go to My Head
14 - I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)
15 - The Very Thought of You
16 - I Can't Get Started
17 - More Than You Know
18 - Sugar
19 - Long Gone Blues
20 - Some Other Spring

CD4
01 - Them There Eyes
02 - Swing, Brother, Swing
03 - Night and Day
04 - The Man I Love
05 - Body and Soul
06 - Falling In Love Again
07 - Laughing at Life
08 - Time on My Hands
09 - St. Louis Blues
10 - Loveless Love
11 - Let's Do It
12 - Georgia on My Mind
13 - All Of Me
14 - God Bless the Child
15 - Am I Blue-
16 - I Cover the Waterfront
17 - Love Me or Leave Me
18 - Gloomy Sunday
19 - It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
20 - Until the Real Thing Comes Along

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