Billie's Best

Locations
Call Number: CD Jazz Holiday Billie's 1992
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Compact disc.
Newly remastered selections from: The complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (10 CD box set).
Duration: 60:35.
Biographical notes by James Isaacs on container insert.
What a little moonlight can do / Harry Woods (3:10) -- A foggy day / George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin (4:40) -- Come rain or come shine / Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer (4:21) -- Comes love / Lew Brown, Sam Stept, Charles Tobias (4:00) -- He's funny that way / Richard Whiting, Neil Moret (3:11) -- Stars fell on Alabama / Frank S. Perkins, Mitchell Parish (4:29) -- Gone with the wind / Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel (3:23) -- They can't take that away from me / George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin (4:10) -- East of the sun / Brooks Bowman (2:54) -- Everything I have is yours / Harold Adamson, Burton Lane (3:43) -- Stormy blues / Billie Holiday (3:26) -- Speak low / Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash (4:25) -- April in Paris / Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg (3:02) -- I've got my love to keep me warm / Irving Berlin (3:55) -- Some other spring / Irene Kitchings, Arthur Herzog, Jr. (3:36) -- All the way / Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn.
Billie Holiday, vocals ; with instrumental acc.
Contents: Damsel in distress. -- St. Louis woman. -- Walk a little faster.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Absolutely Iconic submitted by Meginator on August 31, 2019, 10:53pm Billie Holiday’s iconic style is a perfect marriage of the blues and jazz, with raw emotional storytelling in the vocals set against a smooth, flowing background. Though Holiday’s vocal performances are often (rightfully) the focus here, these tracks also showcase remarkably intuitive interplay between the singer and the instrumental soloists, who often pick up on the nuances in her work and weave them into their own features. Holiday’s work is so unique, yet so effortless, and her approach creates a wonderful blend that highlights the strengths of the genres she takes inspiration from while creating something that is wholly her own.

Legend submitted by downing on August 7, 2022, 2:28pm Absolutely amazing