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BILLIE HOLIDAY

AT STORYVILLE (LP) (LTD)
Label JAZZTWIN
Catalog 50016
Format LP
Discs 1
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2017-12-28
Description
・ LIMITED COLLECTOR’S EDITIONS
・ NEWLY REMASTERED
・ OUTSTANDING NEW COVERS
・ DIRECT METAL MASTERING
・ 180g LP - AUDIOPHILE PRESSING
The mid-Fifties were troubled times for Billie. In his biography of the singer titled Billie’s Blues John Chilton wrote the following about that period: “Most of the contemporary reviews of Billie’s work that appeared in music magazines during the 1950s dwelt heavily on her past achievements. Lady disliked any comparisons between her earlier records and her later work -she said emphatically that she was singing better than ever and that was that. But time a thousand fixes and a sea of swallowed brandy took its toll on Billie’s health: the warning signs were indicating that it was time to ease up. The years of disregard were shearing away Billie’s vocal technique. She never lost the art of conveying deep emotions but by the mid-1950s her range had narrowed considerably and her voice had taken on a troubled quality. Yet on the nights that Lady felt good nothing could stop her being the greatest jazz vocalist on earth. She looked as glamorous as ever and when people spoke of her past as her ‘golden years’ she felt irritated and hurt. She said ‘Always comebacks but nobody says where I’ve been’; nothing irked Lady more than wrinkled adults coming up to say ‘I’ve loved your records since I was a child… so high’.”

BILLIE HOLIDAY vocals
On all tracks plus:
Side A 1-4: STAN GETZ tenor sax; BUSTER HARDING piano; JIMMY RANEY guitar; TEDDY KOTICK bass; TINY KAHN drums. Storyville Club Boston October 28 1951.
Side A 5-10: MAL WALDRON piano; CHAMP JONES bass; ROY HAYNES drums. Storyville Club Boston April 15 1959.
Side B: CARL DRINKARD piano; JIMMY WOODE bass; PETER LITTMAN drums. Storyville Club Boston October 12 1953.
tracklisting
SIDE A:
1. AIN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS IF I DO (Percy Grainger-Robert Graham Prince-Clarence Williams)
2. LOVER COME BACK TO ME (Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein II)
3. DETOUR AHEAD (Lou Carter-Herb Ellis-John Freigo)
4. YOU’RE DRIVING ME CRAZY (Walter Donaldson)
5. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT (George & Ira Gershwin)
6. WILLOW WEEP FOR ME (Ann Ronell)
7. WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE (Einar Aaron Swan)
8. BILLIE’S BLUES (Billie Holiday)
9. TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS (Johnny Mercer-Richard A. Whiting)
10. LOVER COME BACK TO ME (Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein II)
SIDE B:
1. I COVER THE WATERFRONT (Johnny Green-Edward Heyman)
2. TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS (Johnny Mercer-Richard A. Whiting)
3. I LOVES YOU PORGY (George & Ira Gershwin)
4. THEM THERE EYES (Maceo Pinkard-Doris Tauber-William Tracey)
5. WILLOW WEEP FOR ME (Ann Ronell)
6. I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU (Al Dubin-Harry Warren)
7. YOU GO TO MY HEAD (J. Fred Coots-Haven Gillespie)
 

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