Billie Holiday - The Greatest Interpretations Of Billie Holiday - Complete Edition (1959) [Japanese Reissue 1986]

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Artist: Billie Holiday
Title: The Greatest Interpretations Of Billie Holiday - Complete Edition
Year Of Release: 1959/1986
Label: Commodore / King Record Co. Ltd [K32Y 6138]
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing, Blues, Traditional Pop
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans) / WAV (tracks, scans)
Total Time: 51:44
Total Size: 318 mb / 362 mb / 721 mb
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If you’re a completist who insists on having everything that Billie Holiday recorded, The Complete Commodore Recordings is required listening. But for the more casual listener, it’s best to pass on that two-LP set and stick with The Commodore Master Takes. While The Complete Commodore Recordings contains all of the alternate takes that Holiday recorded for Commodore in 1939 and 1944, this collection only concerns itself with the master takes (which total 16). Holiday never singed an exclusive contract with Commodore — she only freelanced for the label, and the ultra-influential jazz singer spent a lot more time recording for Columbia in the 1930s and early 1940s, and for Decca from 1944-1950. But her Commodore output was first-rate, and Lady Day excels whether she’s joined by trumpeter Frankie Newton’s octet at a 1939 session or by pianist Eddie Heywood’s orchestra at three sessions in 1944. The album gets off to an impressive start with the controversial “Strange Fruit,” a bone-chilling account of lynching in the Deep South that ended up being released on Commodore because Columbia was afraid to touch it. Holiday is also quite expressive on performances that range from “Fine and Mellow,” “I Got a Right to Sing the Blues” and “Yesterdays” in 1939 to “My Old Flame,” “Billie’s Blues,” “I’ll Be Seeing You,” and “He’s Funny That Way” in 1944. For those with even a casual interest in Holiday’s legacy, this superb album is essential listening.

:: TRACKLIST ::

1 Strange Fruit 3:12
2 Yesterdays 3:25
3 Fine And Mellow 3:16
4 I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 2:52
5 How Am I To Know? 2:45
6 My Old Flame 3:01
7 I Will Get By 2:57
8 I Cover The Waterfront 3:27
9 I'll Be Seeing You 3:30
10 I'm Yours 3:15
11 Embraceable You 3:16
12 As Time Go By 3:10
13 (I Got A Woman, Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way 3:16
14 Lover Come Back To Me 3:18
15 (Billie's Blues) I Love My Man 3:05
16 On The Sunny Side Of The Street 3:03

Accompanied By – Eddie Heywood And His Orchestra (tracks: 5 to 12), Eddie Heywood Trio (tracks: 13 to 16)
Alto Saxophone – Lem Davis (tracks: 5 to 12), Tab Smith (tracks: 1 to 4)
Bass – John Simmons (tracks: 5 to 16), John Williams (tracks: 1 to 4)
Drums – Eddie Dougherty (tracks: 1 to 4), "Big Sid" Catlett (tracks: 5 to 16)
Guitar – Jimmy McLin (tracks: 1 to 4), Teddy Walters (tracks: 5 to 8)
Liner Notes – 大和明
Photography By – Skippy Adelman
Piano – Eddie Heywood (tracks: 5 to 16), Sonny White (tracks: 1 to 4)
Producer [Original Session] – Milt Gabler
Supervised By – Akira Yamato
Tenor Saxophone – Kenneth Hollon (tracks: 1 to 4), Stan Payne (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
Trombone – Vic Dickenson (tracks: 5 to 12)
Trumpet – "Doc" Cheatham (tracks: 5 to 12), Frank Newton (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
Vocals – Billie Holiday

Tracks: 1 to 4 Recorded at Brunswick Record Corp. World Bdcstg Studio, 711 Fifth Ave., N.Y.C., April 20, 1939
Tracks: 5 to 8 Recorded at WOR Recording Studios, 1440, Broadway, N.Y.C., March 25, 1944
Tracks: 9 to 12 Recorded at WOR Recording Studios, 1440, Broadway, N.Y.C., April 1, 1944
Tracks: 13 to 16 Recorded at WOR Recording Studios, 1440, Broadway, N.Y.C., April 8, 1944

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