Billie Holiday - Saga Jazz: Blue Billie (2003)

Billie Holiday is known best for the depth of feeling in her singing, especially as it relates to melancholy and despair. The Saga compilation Blue Billie isolates the best of her '30s and '40s songs in that vein, and as such includes several of the landmark performances of her career: "Strange Fruit," "Billie's Blues," "My Man," "Fine and Mellow." As only one glimpse of the complete picture of Billie Holiday's talent, Blue Billie isn't a good stand-alone collection, but when paired with Saga's companion volume, Happy Billie, it forms a much better look at one of the best singers in American history.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Billie Holiday - Big City Blues (16:46)
1.02 - Billie Holiday - Summertime (4:54)
1.03 - Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues (8:34)
1.04 - Billie Holiday - I Must Have That Man (10:14)
1.05 - Billie Holiday - Moanin' Low (7:01)
1.06 - Billie Holiday - They Can't Take That Away From Me (3:04)
1.07 - Billie Holiday - Mean To Me (3:09)
1.08 - Billie Holiday - I'll Never Be The Same (3:06)
1.09 - Billie Holiday - My Man (3:06)
1.10 - Billie Holiday - Long Gone Blues (3:07)
1.11 - Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (3:15)
1.12 - Billie Holiday - Yesterdays (3:28)
1.13 - Billie Holiday - Fine and Mellow (3:18)
1.14 - Billie Holiday - I Gotta Right to Sing The Blue (2:54)
1.15 - Billie Holiday - Some OTher Spring (3:04)
1.16 - Billie Holiday - The Man I Love (3:07)
1.17 - Billie Holiday - St Louis Blues (2:56)
1.18 - Billie Holiday - Georgia On My Mind (3:20)
1.19 - Billie Holiday - Solitude (3:18)
1.20 - Billie Holiday - I Cover The Waterfront (2:59)
1.21 - Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday (3:14)
1.22 - Billie Holiday - Trav'Lin' Light (3:17)
1.23 - Billie Holiday - Don't Explain (3:25)
1.24 - Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child (3:14)