Billie Holiday - The Complete Carnegie Hall Performances [2CD set]

POLL WINNERS RECORD

£15.61

Cat. no: 27352
Format: CD 2CD set
Barcode: 8436559460644
Release Date: 10 May 2024
Genre: Jazz

The Poll Winners label is devoted to the reissue of albums that received the maximum 5-Star review ratings in the iconic jazz magazine DownBeat, this release presents, for the frst time ever on a single set, all surviving performances by the great Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall, covering the years 1946 to 1956

The frst CD begins with her most celebrated Carnegie Hall set, taped on November 10, 1956 and released on the album The Essential Billie Holiday - Carnegie Hall Concert (Verve V-8410), followed by all of her other preserved recordings at that venue, some of them only rarely heard. As a bonus, they have added a rare radio show (November 8, 1956) on which Billie sings the lyrics to three of her songs without accompaniment and interviewed about her upcoming Carnegie Hall concert. The closing bonus, also previously unissued, features Billie a few days after the concert relaxing during a party at Leonard Feather's home and singing a unique vocal duet with Helen Merrill with piano accompaniment by their host.

2CD Set + 6 bonus tracks and a 20-page comprehensive booklet.

Tracks: Reading From Lady Sings The Blues / Lady Sings The Blues / It Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do / Travelin' Light With Reading / Reading From Lady Sings The Blues / Billie's Blues / Body And Soul / Reading From Lady Sings The Blues / Don't Explain / Yesterdays / Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone / I'll Be Seeing You / Reading From Lady Sings The Blues / My Man / I Cried For You / Fine And Mellow / I Cover The Waterfront / Oh, What A Little Moonlight Can Do / Announcement Into All Of Me / It Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do / Lover Come Back To Me / My Man / Lover Man / Them There Eyes / Stormy Weather / Norman Granz Announcement / Lover Man / Announcement By Duke Ellington / Lover Come Back To Me / I Cover The Waterfront / My Man / Fine And Mellow / The Man I Love / Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You / All Of Me / Billie's Blues / You Better Go Now / You're Driving Me Crazy / There Is No Greater Love / I Cover The Waterfront / Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? / Don't Explain / I Loves You Porgy / Peacock Alley Show I: Billie Holiday Interview / Peacock Alley Show II: Don't Explain / Peacock Alley Show III: Fine And Mellow / Peacock Alley Show IV: Yesterdays/Interview / Medley: Ghost Of Yesterday/You Go To My Head