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Billie Holiday

SKU: PPANCL637

Barcode: 5060149621271

34.00 £34.00
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Label: Pure Pleasure
  • Released Date: 5th July 2010
  • Buying Format:
    180g 1LP

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Columbia CL637 – MONO RE-MASTERING by RAY STAFF at AIR MASTERING, LYNDHURST HALL, LONDON. Excerpt from George Avakian’s notes on the album sleeve: When planning this album, I had a hellish time trying to choose what I thought were the absolute cream of Billie Holiday. In the course of this wrestling, it struck me that not only were Billie’s vocals incredibly perfect, but that I could not remember a single instance of anyone playing a bad solo or even a bad phrase among the hundred or more performances I had to choose from in the golden period of her work. Checking over records (which was almost unnecessary, because I could still remember them almost note for note) was a rather beautiful and somewhat shattering experience. Jazz, a product of so many things – musical evolution, the social scene of a particular time, the economic atmosphere of the moment, what somebody had for breakfast that day – and none of those tings will ever come together again as they did when these records were made.

Personnel & Recording Dates : A, 1, 2 & 3 : ( July 2, 1935) Roy Eldridge, trumpet; Benny Goodman, clarinet; Ben Webster, tenor sax; Teddy Wilson, piano; John Truehart, guitar; John Kirby, bass; Cozy Cole, drums. A, 4: (October 25, 1935) Benny Morton, trombone; Chu Berry, tenor sax; & Dave Barbour, guitar, replace Goodman, Webster & Truehart. A, 5 & 6: (July 10, 1936) This is from Billie’s first session under her own name. Bunny Berigan, trumpet; Art Shaw, clarinet; Joe Bushkin, piano; Dick McDonough, guitar; Pete Peterson, bass; Cozy Cole, drums. B, 1: (January 25, 1937) Teddy Wilson, piano; Buck Clayton, trumpet; Benny Goodman, clarinet; Lester Young, tenor sax; Freddie Green, guitar; Walter Page, bass; Jo Jones, drums. B, 2 & 3: (June 1, 1937) Buster Bailey replaces Goodman. B, 4 & 5: (June 15, 1937) From Billie’s fifth session under her own name. Jimmy Sherman replaces Wilson, Ed Hall replaces Bailey. B, 6: (June 30, 1936) Teddy Wilson, piano; Jonah Jones, trumpet; Johnny Hodges, alto sax; Harry Carney, baritone sax; Lawrence Lucie, guitar; John Kirby, bass; Cozy Cole, drums.

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Track Listings

Tracklisting
Side A :
1. Miss Brown To You
2. I Wished On The Moon
3. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
4. If You Were Mine
5. Summertime
6. Billie’s Blues
Side B:
1. I Must Have That Man
2. Foolin’ Myself
3. Easy Living
4. Me, Myself And I
5. A Sailboat In The Moonlight
6. I Cried For You

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