Billie Holiday - Velvet Mood ( 1956 )

 

Track listing

Side one

1. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Irving Gordon) - 5:37
2. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) - 4:58
3. "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (Sam H. Stept, Sidney Clare, Bee Palmer) - 4:23
4. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:48

Side two

1. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:55
2. "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) – 4:20
3. "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" (Ray Noble) – 4:05
4. "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Burton Lane, Harold Adamson) – 4:33

Personnel

Billie Holiday - Vocals
Benny Carter - Alto saxophone
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet
Jimmy Rowles - Piano, celesta on "I Hadn't Anyone Till You", "Everything I Have Is Yours", and "What's New?"
Barney Kessel - Guitar
John Simmons - Bass
Larry Bunker - Drums

Billie Holiday - Music for Torching ( 1955 )

 

Track listing

A side

1. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 4:02
2. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:23
3. "I Don't Want to Cry Anymore" (Victor Schertzinger) - 3:55
4. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Victor Young, Ned Washington, Bing Crosby) - 4:29

B side

1. "A Fine Romance" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 3:35
2. "Gone with the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) - 3:26
3. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 5:42
4. "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" (Irving Berlin) - 4:16

Personnel

Billie Holiday - Vocals
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet
Benny Carter - Alto saxophone
Jimmy Rowles - Piano
Barney Kessel - Guitar
John Simmons - Bass
Larry Bunker - Drums

Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday ( 1954 )

 

Track listing

A side

1. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 2:56
2. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) – 2:58
3. "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Harold Adamson, Burton Lane) – 3:43
4. "If the Moon Turns Green" (George Cates, Bernie Hanighen) – 2:46

B side

1. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 3:43
2. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 3:00
3. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 3:14
4. "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) – 2:27

Personnel

April, 1952 Recordings

(Tracks A1–B1)
The exact date of this session is not known. Norman Granz signed Holiday to his record label after returning from Europe April 21, 1952, so the session presumably occurred sometime after that.

• Billie Holiday, vocals
• Flip Phillips, tenor sax
• Charlie Shavers, trumpet
• Oscar Peterson, piano
• Barney Kessel, guitar
• Alvin Stoller, drums
• Ray Brown, bass

April 14, 1954 Recordings

(Tracks B2-4)

• Billie Holiday, vocals
• Charlie Shavers, trumpet
• Oscar Peterson, piano
• Herb Ellis, guitar
• Ed Shaughnessy, drums
• Ray Brown, bass

Billie Holiday - An Evening with Billie Holiday ( 1953 )

 

Track listing

1953 10" LP, An Evening with Billie Holiday

A side

1. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:41
2. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:36
3. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:37
4. "He's Funny That Way" (Richard Whiting, Neil Moret) – 3:11

B side

1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach – 2:49
2. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:23
3. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
4. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 2:34

1956 12" LP, A Recital By Billie Holiday

A side

1. "If the Moon Turns Green" (George Cates, Bernie Hanighen) – 2:46
2. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 2:34
3. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 3:43
4. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:37
5. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:36
6. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:41

B side

1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach – 2:49
2. "He's Funny That Way" (Richard Whiting, Neil Moret) – 3:11
3. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
4. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 3:00
5. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 3:14
6. "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) – 2:27

Personnel

The personnel of the original 10-inch "LP are from two different recording dates, with different musicians. The 12-inch LP adds one track from each of the two sessions, as well as three tracks from a 1954 session.

April 1952 Personnel (exact date unknown)
(Evening tracks B3-4; Recital tracks A1-A3):
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Flip Phillips - Tenor saxophone
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Alvin Stoller - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass

July 27, 1952 Personnel
(Evening tracks A1-B2; Recital tracks A4-6, B1-3):
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Joe Newman - Trumpet
Paul Quinichette - Tenor Saxophone
Oscar Peterson - Piano (Organ on Yesterdays)
Freddie Green - Guitar
Gus Johnson - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass

April 14, 1954 Recordings
(Recital tracks B4-6)
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Herb Ellis - Guitar
Ed Shaughnessy - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass

Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday Sings ( 1952 )

 

Track listing

1952 10" LP, Billie Holiday Sings

A side

1. "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:57
2. "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell) – 3:29
3. "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:31
4. "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:31

B side

1. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 3:38
2. "(You'd Be So) Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:01
3. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 2:56
4. "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 2:54

Personnel

Performance

• Billie Holiday – vocals
• Charlie Shavers – trumpet
• Flip Phillips – tenor saxophone
• Oscar Peterson – piano
• Ray Brown – double bass
• Barney Kessel – guitar
• Alvin Stoller – drums