Billie Holiday - Billie's Best
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Artist: Billie HolidayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-09-22
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday, Woods, Harry
- A Foggy Day - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
- Come Rain or Come Shine - Billie Holiday, Arlen, Harold
- Comes Love - Billie Holiday, Brown, Lew
- He's Funny That Way - Billie Holiday, Moret, Neil
- Stars Fell on Alabama - Billie Holiday, Parish, Mitchell
- Gone With the Wind - Billie Holiday, Magidson, Herbert
- They Can't Take That Away from Me - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, George
- East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) - Billie Holiday, Bowman, Brooks
- Everything I Have Is Yours - Billie Holiday, Adamson, Harold
- Stormy Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie
- Speak Low - Billie Holiday, Nash, Ogden
- April in Paris - Billie Holiday, Duke, Vernon
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Billie Holiday, Berlin, Irving
- Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr.
- All the Way - Billie Holiday, Cahn, Sammy
Free Music Notes for Billie's Best
Free Music Review: THE TORCH SINGER'S TORCH SINGER
Hit: 4 Stars
In my book, and I am hardly alone on this, Billie Holiday is the torch singer's torch singer. Maybe it is the phrasing on her best songs. That well-placed hush. Maybe it is the unbreakable link between her voice when she is on a roll and the arrangements. Hell, maybe in the end it was the dope but, by Jesus, she could sing a modern ballad of love, lost or both like no other. And if it was the dope, let me say this- a `normal' nice singer could sing for a hundred years and never get it right, the way Billie could get it right when she was at her best. Dope or no dope. Was she always at her best? Hell no, as the current compilation makes clear. These recordings done between 1945 and her death in 1959 for Verve show the highs but also the lows as the voice faltered a little and the dope put the nerves on edge toward the end.
Many of the songs on the current compilation are technically sound, a few not, as is to be expected on such re-mastering. You will like Come Rain or Come Shine, Stars Fell On Alabama and Stormy Blues. A tear will come to your eye with Some Other Spring and East of the Sun. The surprise of the package is Speak Low, a sultry song with tropical background beat. That one is very good, indeed.
One last word- I have occasionally mentioned my love of Billie Holiday's music to younger acquaintances. Some of their responses reflecting, I think, the influence of the movie version of her life (Lady Sings the Blues) or some unsympathic black history type views on her life have written her off as an 'addled' doper. Here is my rejoinder- If when I am blue and need a pick me-up and put on a Billie platter (CD)and feel better then, my friends, I do not give a damn about the dope. Enough said.
Billie's Best Poster
This selection is drawn from Billie Holiday's Verve recordings of the mid-1950s. It was a time when her voice was already showing some wear and tear, but the same experiences that tattered the voice brought it an unmatched expressiveness. Her voice possessed a unique presence, a sound that seems lit up by a resilient vitality. Producer Norman Granz set Holiday among the small jazz combos that suited her talents best, groups that included some of the finest soloists of her generation, such as trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and saxophonists Benny Carter and Ben Webster. Granz also supplied ideal rhythm sections, with pianist Jimmy Rowles and guitarists Kenny Burrell and Barney Kessel making appearances here. There's more room to stretch out than was available on the early Columbia and Commodore recordings, and the results are relaxed and profound treatments of some great songs. --Stuart BroomerBlues Music CDs
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