Billie Holiday Lady Day ( reissue HQ 180g vinyl )

Release date: 30-07-2010 (originally released in 1954 )

2010 UK reissue HQ 180g vinyl LP - 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. - Excerpt from George Avakian’s Liner Notes

Tracks:
A1 Miss Brown To You
A2 I Wished On The Moon
A3 What A Little Moonlight Can Do
A4 If You Were Mine
A5 Summertime
A6 Billie's Blues

B1 I Must Have That Man!
B2 Foolin' Myself
B3 Easy Living
B4 Me, Myself And I
B5 A Sailboat In The Moonlight
B6 I Cried For You