Rare Live Recordings, 1934-1959

Billie Holiday - Rare Live Recordings, 1934-1959

Rare Live Recordings, 1934-1959
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Artist: Billie Holiday
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2007-12-04
Music Label: Esp Disk Ltd.
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Lost My Man Blues
  2. Theme: Moten Swing
  3. Announcer Introduction
  4. Swing Brother Swing
  5. Announcer Introduction
  6. They Can't Take That Away From Me
  7. I Cried For You
  8. Fine And Mellow
  9. Announcer Introduction
  10. I'll Get By
  11. Billie's Blues
  12. Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me
  13. Danny Kaye Introduces Jerome Kern, Who Presents Billie With Her Award
  14. I Cover the Waterfront
  15. Fine And Mellow
  16. All Of Me
  17. Endy Gets Caught Playing Piano
  18. Endy Goes To Storyville
  19. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
  20. Satchmo Talks
  21. Farewell To Storyville
  22. Farewell To Storyville: Studio Version
  23. The Blues Are Brewin': Studio Version
  24. The Man I Love
  25. Miss Brown To You
  26. Lover Man
  27. I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
  28. Billie's Blues
  29. No More
  30. Good Morning Heartache
Music CD 2
  1. You're Driving Me Crazy
  2. Maybe You'll Be There
  3. Introduction By Donald Wood
  4. You'd Better Go Now
  5. Them There Eyes
  6. Lady Day And Eddie Condon Speak
  7. Keeps On Rainin'
  8. Lady Day And Eddie Condon Speak
  9. Lover Man (Incomplete)
  10. I Cover the Waterfront
  11. All Of Me
  12. Narration/Early History
  13. Fine And Mellow
  14. Porgy
  15. Jam Session Introduction
  16. All Of Me
  17. You're My Thrill
  18. Lover Come Back To Me
  19. Ain't Nobody's Business
  20. You're Driving Me Crazy
  21. He's Funny That Way
  22. Miss Brown To You
  23. Lover Man
  24. Them There Eyes
  25. My Man
  26. I Cover the Waterfront
  27. Crazy He Calls Me
  28. Detour Ahead
  29. Strange Fruit
  30. Ain't Nobody's Business
  31. All Of Me
Music CD 3
  1. Porgy
  2. My Man
  3. Tenderly
  4. God Bless the Child
  5. My Man
  6. Them There Eyes
  7. Lover Man
  8. Willow Weep For Me
  9. I Only Have Eyes For You
  10. My Man
  11. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
  12. Jon McCloughland: Introduction
  13. I Cover the Waterfront
  14. Too Marvelous For Words
  15. Porgy
  16. Them There Eyes
  17. Willow Weep For Me
  18. I Only Have Eyes For You
  19. You Go To My Head
  20. Stormy Weather
  21. Ghost Of a Chance
  22. Nice Work If You Can Get It
  23. God Bless the Child
  24. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
  25. Don't Explain
  26. Porgy
Music CD 4
  1. Fine And Mellow
  2. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  3. Foolin' Myself
  4. Easy To Remember
  5. Moanin' Low
  6. Don't Explain
  7. When Your Lover Has Gone
  8. Mort Saul: Introduction
  9. Ain't Nobody's Business
  10. Willow Weep For Me
  11. When Your Lover Has Gone
  12. God Bless the Child
  13. I Only Have Eyes For You
  14. Good Morning Heartache
  15. Them There Eyes
  16. Billie's Blues
  17. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  18. Travelin' Light
  19. Lover Come Back To Me
Music CD 5
  1. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
  2. Lady Day Speaks: Early History
  3. Just Friends
  4. Lady Day Speaks: The Number 13
  5. Ghost Of a Chance
  6. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone: 1
  7. Everything Happens To Me
  8. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone: 2
  9. I Don't To Cry Anymore
  10. Prelude To a Kiss
  11. Jeepers Creepers
  12. My Yiddishe Mama
  13. Hey! Lady's Here
  14. God Bless the Child
  15. Introduction
  16. Nice Work If You Can Get It
  17. Willow Weep For Me
  18. When Your Lover Has Gone
  19. Billie's Blues
  20. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
  21. God Bless the Child
  22. Now Or Never
  23. Untitled Track

Free Music Notes for Rare Live Recordings, 1934-1959

Free Music Review: Poor production values for a CD set of this price
Hit: 3 Stars

This comment is about the packaging, not the music. (Some of the music is pretty scratchy but it's always great to hear Billie). I was expecting more given the price. The 5 CDs come in a standard double sized CD case. The booklet is divided in two at the midpoint so each half fits in one side of the case. The liner notes are a jumble of short session notes and asides such as "Billie's Husband Is Arrested 1942", with little organization or perspective. There are a total of six pictures. Overall the liner notes look like a homework assignment typed on the last surviving typewriter. The price led me to expect a meticulous effort. This is more like something advertised on TV at 2 a.m.

Rare Live Recordings, 1934-1959 Poster

"The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever." -- All Music Guide

"Considered by many to be the greatest jazz vocalist of all time, Billie Holiday lived a tempestuous and difficult life. Her singing expressed an incredible depth of emotion that spoke of hard times and injustice as well as triumph. Though her career was relatively short and often erratic, she left behind a body of work as great as any vocalist before or since." -- PBS.org, "American Masters"

A five-CD compilation of extremely rare live performance recordings from 1935-1959, plus a detailed liner timeline of performance information.

In 1972, thirteen years after her death, Congress extended copyright protections to include recorded musical performances. Billie Holiday would have benefited greatly from such protection: during the more than twenty-five years of her career, Holiday gave an unknown number of live performances on TV & radio and in clubs & concert halls, many of which were recorded both officially and unofficially by sound engineers, fellow musicians, and fans. Today ESP-Disk', which for many years has been assembling unofficial recordings of several artists from before 1972, has released one of the most comprehensive collections of live Billie Holiday recordings to date, some previously available but most not. These recordings, laid out in chronologicalorder, not only demonstrate the arc of Holiday's development as a vocalist but give a rare behind-the-scenes look into how the singer approached her musicians and her audience.

The first disc of this compilation opens with a twenty-year-old Billie Holiday performing with Duke Ellington in 1935, followed by a radio broadcast from the Savoy Hotel in New York two years later in which Holiday fronts the Count Basie Orchestra. The next four discs cover Holiday's career from 1949 to her death in 1959. During those ten years, advancesin radio and TV technology changed the way Americans consumed entertainment, and the mass proliferation of recorded media from that time leaves us with dozens of examples of Holiday's live performances. Set in the context of other early recorded media presentations, it is easy to imagine how revolutionary Holiday's singing sounded to mainstream American audiences, with her plaintive voice, blues inflections, and uncensored delivery.

This magnificent set includes a portfolio of photographs and performance data detailing a historical timeline of rare radio/television broadcasts and concert performances--and the events and situations that lead to these powerful performances--along with explanations of some of her most popular material. The set also includes a rare and private recordingof she and some friends in an impromptu setting, with Holiday singing "My Yiddisha Mamma."

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