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Billie Holiday - Greatest Hits (Sony)
Billie Holiday List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $10.98
Audio CD - 17 November, 1998
Sony
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CD Tracks:
Miss Brown To You - Billie Holiday
What A Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday
I Cried For You - Billie Holiday
Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
A Sailboat In The Moonlight - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
I Can't Get Started - Billie Holiday
When A Woman Loves A Man - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Solitude - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
The Very Thought Of You - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
Body And Soul - Billie Holiday
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Features:- Original recording remastered
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| Audio CD Description Curiously, yet not surprisingly given the enormity of his sway, Billie Holiday's greatest vocal influence was "Pops"--Louis Armstrong, whose trumpet was his first signature (though he's often credited with being the first great jazz singer as well). One hears Armstrong in Holiday's sense of phrasing, timing, and the warmth she invests in a lyric. This package, containing such touchstone Holiday renderings as "I Cried for You," "Body and Soul," and "When a Woman Loves a Man" (poetic, given the fact that Billie was notoriously unlucky at love), also boasts her signature song, "God Bless the Child." Her accompanists are a hall-of-fame lot, including trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton; saxmen Lester Young (with whom she had a close relationship), Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, and Harry Carney; drummers Cozy Cole and Jo Jones; bassists John Kirby and Walter Page; and her frequent pianist, Teddy Wilson. |
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Fave Jazz Album! Every tune is fab! Thankfully, the remastering has not diminished the old scratchy sound typically found in recordings from this era.
Early greats from Lady Day I heard this CD while I was walking around Borders and just had to have it. These are early recordings - the music is fresh and joyous - the vocals are superb. I especially love the recordings of "Miss Brown To You," "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (a treat), "Some Other Spring" and my very favorite, "I Can't Get Started." I have other Holiday recordings. However, this is the one I play again and again. I only wish that it had "Good Morning Heartache" on it. Oh, well.
A great place to start, an album with a special treat! Almost everything Billie Holiday recorded, and maybe everything Billie recorded before 1941, like these sides, was great.Certainly, this collection doesn't have any of the very important work Billie Did during WWII for Commodore, nor does it have some of th exciting Jazzy recordings Billie did for Verve in the late 1940s and 1950s. Nor are any of the outstanding live performances by Billie for Jazz at the Philharmonic or in her Carneige Hall concerts on this CD.
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