Gold [Remaster] http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Music/Gold-Billie-Holiday/0602498802038

Artist: Billie Holiday

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Album: Gold
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Miss Brown to You
2)	What a Little Moonlight Can Do
3)	I Cried For You
4)	Mean to Me
5)	Strange Fruit
6)	Fine and Mellow
7)	God Bless the Child
8)	Trav'lin' Light
9)	My Old Flame
10)	I'll Get by (As Long as I Have to)
11)	Billie's Blues
12)	He's Funny That Way
13)	Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
14)	Don't Explain
15)	Good Morning Heartache
16)	No Good Man
17)	Blues Are Brewin', The
18)	Solitude
19)	Easy Living
20)	I Loves You Porgy
21)	My Man (Mon Homme)
22)	'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do
1)	Them There Eyes
2)	You Can't Lose a Broken Heart
3)	You're My Thrill
4)	Crazy He Calls Me
5)	Detour Ahead
6)	These Foolish Things
7)	You Go to My Head
8)	Love Me or Leave Me
9)	Willow Weep For Me
10)	I Thought About You
11)	I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
12)	Come Rain or Come Shine
13)	It Had to Be You
14)	What's New?
15)	Lady Sings the Blues
16)	I Cover the Waterfront
17)	Body and Soul
18)	But Not For Me
19)	One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
20)	I'm a Fool to Want You

Performer Notes

Personnel: Billie Holiday; Louis Armstrong (vocals); Tiny Grimes, Barney Kessel (guitar); Benny Goodman (clarinet); Benny Carter (alto saxophone); Lester Young , Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Doc Cheatham, Harry "Sweets" Edison , Charlie Shavers (trumpet); Vic Dickenson (trombone); Eddie Heywood, Dave Bowman , Oscar Peterson (piano); Joe Benjamin, John Levy (bass instrument); Cozy Cole (drums); Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra, Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra.
Liner Note Author: Ashley Kahn.
Meticulously selected, lovingly assembled, and beautifully packaged, this two-CD/one-DVD collection is a true retrospective, featuring representative cuts from the length of Billie Holiday's career across a range of labels. While most compilations focus on one period of the legendary singer's career, THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION includes recordings Holiday cut for Decca, Verve, Columbia, Commodore, and others. The backing bands range from small combos to large ensembles, and include such luminaries as Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Johnny Hodges, Louis Armstrong, and Lester Young.
The set begins with Holiday's 1935 Brunswick dates. The chronological arrangement allows the listener to observe the transformation of Holiday's vocal style, from the light, buoyant early work through her definitive '40s middle period and on to her final sessions from the late '50s, when her voice was broken and life-torn. No matter the phase, Holiday's performances are masterful, gripping, and immediately seductive (not to mention--in cases like the 1939 recording of "Strange Fruit"--historically important). The DVD, which features 10 television and film performances, a timeline, and bonus audio features, is almost too good to be believed. Opinions will continue to differ about the "greatest female jazz vocalist," but be warned: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION might make any case but Lady Day's hard to argue.

Format:	CD (0 Disc); Stereo
Country:	USA
Studio/Live:	Mixed
Release Date:	11 October, 2005

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