The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes

Billie Holiday - The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes

The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes
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Artist: Billie Holiday
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-12-13
Music Label: Verve
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. East of the Sun
  2. Blue Moon
  3. You Go to My Head
  4. You Turned the Tables on Me
  5. Easy to Love
  6. These Foolish Things
  7. I Only Have Eyes for You
  8. Solitude
  9. Everything I Have Is Yours
  10. Love for Sale
  11. Moonglow
  12. Tenderly
  13. If the Moon Turns Green
  14. Remember
  15. Autumn in New York
  16. My Man
  17. Lover, Come Back to Me
  18. Stormy Weather
  19. Yesterdays
  20. He's Funny That Way
  21. I Can't Face the Music
Music CD 2
  1. How Deep Is the Ocean?
  2. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  3. I Cried for You
  4. Love Me or Leave Me
  5. P.S. I Love You
  6. Too Marvelous for Words
  7. Softly
  8. I Thought About You
  9. Willow Weep for Me
  10. Stormy Blues
  11. Say It Isn't So
  12. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
  13. I Wished on the Moon
  14. Always
  15. Everything Happens to Me
  16. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
  17. Ain't Misbehavin'
Music CD 3
  1. I Don't Want to Cry Anymore
  2. Prelude to a Kiss
  3. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
  4. When Your Lover Has Gone
  5. Gone with the Wind
  6. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
  7. It Had to Be You
  8. Nice Work If You Can Get It
  9. Come Rain or Come Shine
  10. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
  11. What's New?
  12. Fine Romance
  13. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
  14. I Get a Kick Out of You
  15. Everything I Have Is Yours
  16. Isn't This a Lovely Day?
Music CD 4
  1. Trav'lin' Light
  2. I Must Have That Man!
  3. Some Other Spring
  4. Lady Sings the Blues
  5. Strange Fruit
  6. God Bless the Child
  7. Good Morning Heartache
  8. No Good Man
  9. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
  10. Cheek to Cheek
  11. Ill Wind
  12. Speak Low
  13. We'll Be Together Again
  14. All or Nothing at All
  15. Sophisticated Lady
  16. April in Paris
Music CD 5
  1. I Wished the Moon
  2. Moonlight in Vermont
  3. Foggy Day
  4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
  5. Just One of Those Things
  6. Comes Love
  7. Day in, Day Out
  8. Darn That Dream
  9. But Not for Me
  10. Body and Soul
  11. Stars Fell on Alabama
  12. Say It Isn't So
  13. Love Is Here to Stay
  14. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
Music CD 6
  1. They Can't Take That Away from Me
  2. Embraceable You
  3. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
  4. Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?
  5. All the Way
  6. It's Not for Me to Say
  7. I'll Never Smile Again
  8. Just One More Chance
  9. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
  10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
  11. Sometimes I'm Happy
  12. You Took Advantage of Me
  13. There'll Be Some Changes Made
  14. 'Deed I Do
  15. All of You
  16. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?

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Free Music Review: Forget the Packaging, Let's talk about the music.
Hit: 4 Stars

This review is not about the packaging (besides, it's not the worst even though whoever decided to glue the acordion like disc holder to the metal box wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and whoever designed the art work wasn't the brightest bulb in the lamp).

This is strictly on the music alone. If this was on the Verve & Cleff material only, this would be getting a 5 star rating. On the first 5 discs, she hadn't totally messed up her vocal chords on cigarettes and heroin yet. Unfortunately, Verve (originally owned by Polygram, now owned by UMG) also owned MGM, and to live up to the complete angle, they had to release the MGM (Ray Ellis conducted / arranged / produced) album simply titled Billie Holiday. This section got worst for 2 reasons. Instead of having really great jazz artists, you have strings (which just doesn't work). Also (Like Lady In Satin), her voice has had it.

All the other discs (and actually the first 4 songs on disc 6) are all very good, but once you start to hear All The Way, it becomes dificult to listen to (another similarity to Lady in Satin). Is it worth the price for the poor packaging and the imfamous MGM album? From me, you'll get a resounding YES. On the other discs, Billie is in good voice, and the musicians are hot. This is perfect for the person who doesn't want all the alternate tracks that you get in the Complete Verve, and feel that the 2 disc set is too skimpy.
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The final decade of Billie Holiday's life was one in which the singer, in the clutches of drugs and poor taste in men, slowly withered away. Amid this tragedy, Lady Day carried on with a bittersweet dignity that seemed only to grow as the years passed. Her matchless phrasing added a profundity to a worn-out lyric and her dark, ragged timbre exuded a venerable wisdom, but at the same time she acquired a faded vulnerability not heard in her earlier years. Collecting her studio work between 1952 and 1959 (when she died), this six-CD/100-song set offers a long and loving look at the Holiday of this era. She's joined here by the cr?me of jazz with an orchestra session at the end. And whereas The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve, 1945-1959 also offers uneven rehearsal tapes as well as live and radio performances, this collection zeroes in on prime studio cuts. This is for lovers of Lady Day, but not the obsessive. --Tad Hendrickson
For many people, Billie Holiday (a.k.a. "Lady Day") wasn't just a jazz singer. She was the jazz singer, and remains so today. Thanks to her lifelong struggles with men, alcohol, and drug addiction, Holiday is often viewed as an archetypal example of the suffering artist--a singer who sang her life. And there's no denying the often heartrending quality of the classic recordings she made with musicians like Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, and Harry "Sweets" Edison.

But Holiday's sophisticated sense of rhythm, subtle melodic improvisations, and nuanced way with a lyric enabled her to invest everything she sang with new meaning, from swinging dance tunes to mournful ballads. And her cool, effortless manner only heightened the emotional impact of her delivery. She influenced several generations of singers and instrumentalists alike, and stands shoulder-to-shoulder alongside such iconic jazz figures as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Charlie Parker.

Original recordings produced by Norman Granz and others.

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