Billie Holiday ‎– The Ben Webster/Harry Edison Sessions

This release contains the complete memorable recordings made by Billie Holiday in 1956-57 backed by a sextet including Ben Webster, Harry Edison, Jimmy Rowles & Barney Kessel.
A complete Holiday set recorded at Newport during the same period has been added as a bonus.

“Billie for me was the incarnation of soul, of living intensity; she was everything that has ever been connoted by the word glamour. She was sweet, sour, kind, mean, generous, blasphemous, loving and lovable, and nobody who ever knew her expects there ever again to be anyone quite like her.”
Leonard Feather – Down Beat (1959)

BILLIE HOLIDAY (voc)
BEN WEBSTER (ts)
HARRY “SWEETS” EDISON (tp)
JIMMY ROWLES (p)
BARNEY KESSEL (g).
On all tracks, plus:
Joe Mondragon or Red Mitchell (b), Alvin Stoller or Larry Bunker (d). Hollywood, August 1956-January 1957.

Bonus Tracks:
Disc Two, 12-21: Billie Holiday (vcl), Mal Waldron (p), Joe Benjamin (b), Jo Jones (d). Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 6, 1957.

CD ONE: 01 Do Nothin’ Til! You Hear from Me 4:14 02 Cheek to Cheek 3:37 03 111 Wind 6:17 04 Speak Low 4:29 05 We’ll Be Together Again 4:26 06 All or Nothing at All 5:41 07 Sophisticated Lady 4:51 08 April in Paris 3:05 09 I Wished on the Moon 3:27 10 Moonlight in Vermont 3:52 11 A Foggy Day 4:40 12 Comes Love (Versión 1) 3:59 13 I Didn’t Know What Time It Was 6:02 14 Just One of Those Things 5:32 15 Comes Love (Versión 2) 4:00 16 Day In, Day Out 6:48 17 But Not for Me 3:48

Total Time: 78:54

CD TWO:01DarnThatDream6:19 02 Body and Soul 6:24 03 Just Friends 6:29 04 Stars Fell on Alabama 4:31 OSSayltlsn’t So3:18 06 Love Is Here to Stay 3:44 07 One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) 5:42 08 They Can’t Take That Away from Me 4:12 09 Embraceable You 6:49 10 Let’s Cali the Whole Thing Off 3:26 11 Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good To You 5:37 12 Announcement by Jolmny Mercer 0:41» 13 Lady Be Good (Theme) 0:10* 14 Nice Work If You Can Get It 2:38» 15 Willow, Weep for Me 3:08* 16 My Man 3:29* 17 Lover, Come Back to Me 2:05 18 Lady Sings the Blues 2:59* 19 What a Little Moonlight Can Do 2:53* 20 Lady Be Good (Theme & Closing Announcements) 0:18*

Total Time: 75:04

See 16-page booklet for complete information.

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