Track Listing
1. St. Louis Blues - (with Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra/Benny Carter)
2. Loveless Love - (with Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra/Benny Carter)
3. Let's Do It
4. Georgia on My Mind
5. Romance in the Dark
6. All of Me
7. I'm in a Low-Down Groove
8. God Bless the Child
9. Am I Blue?
10. Solitude
11. Jim
12. I Cover the Waterfront
13. Love Me or Leave Me
14. Gloomy Sunday
15. Wherever You Are
16. Mandy Is Two
17. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
18. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Benny Carter, Georgie Auld, Kenny Clarke, Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Teddy Wilson | | Producer: | Michael Brooks (Compilation) | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Personnel: Billie Holiday (vocals); Benny Carter (alto saxophone, clarinet); Jimmy Powell, Leslie Johnakins, Eddie Barefield, Ernie Powell, Lester Boone,
Hymie Schertzer (alto saxophone); Lester Young, Georgie Auld, Babe Russin (tenor saxophone); Roy Eldridge, Bill Coleman, Shad Collins, Emmett Berry (trumpet); Benny Morton (trombone); Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet); Teddy Wilson, Sonny White, Eddie Heywood (piano); John Collins, Ulysses Livingston, Paul Chapman, Al Casey (guitar); John Williams, Wilson Myers, Ted Sturgis, Grachan Moncur (bass); J.C. Heard, Kenny Clarke, Yank Porter, Herbert Cowans (drums).
Recorded in New York, New York between October 1940 and February 1942. Includes liner notes by Michael Brooks.
Digitally remastered by Tim Geelan (Sony Music Studio, New York, New York).
The tracks on Volume IX of this series were the last Billie Holiday did for Columbia before jumping labels to Decca, where her material would receive the more fully orchestrated pop treatment. Though she swung harder than any pop singer while creating new hooks inside jazz structures, Ms. Holiday was not a blues singer by trade or nature. But with her main vocal influence being Bessie Smith, a "blues-is-a-feeling" phrasing underpins her horn-like delivery on these enduring pieces.
With compassionate support coming from the likes of Benny Carter, Lester Young, and especially Roy Eldridge, Billie's sonic seduction works its magic here on forgotten lightweight fluff as well as the time-burnished classics "St. Louis Blues," "All Of Me," and "Georgia On My Mind." Of historical note; the version of "God Bless The Child" on this CD is the world-premiere recording.
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