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Billie Holiday

Title: Billie's Blues - Her Best Performances on Film

Label: Jazzshots

Cat No:DVD2869097
Format:DVD

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Discovery Records
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• The great Billie Holiday singing her greatest hits for the TV cameras - rare footage of the unique ‘Lady Day’ - one of the greatest jazz singers ever.

• This DVD, which compiles most of Billie Holiday’s filmed performances (omitted are only her two motion picture appearances on the films ‘Symphony in Black’ (1934) and ‘New Orleans’ (1946), and a few 1950s broadcasts which had terrible image quality or were incomplete), covering the years 1950 to 1959 (the London show on tracks 11-12 was one of her very last performances)
• Personnel : Billie Holiday (vocals on all tracks), with: Count Basie (p) and his orchestra (1950); Corky Hale (p) & his trio (1956); Georgie Auld (ts), Tyree Glenn (tb), Mal Waldron (p), Mary Osborne (g), Vinnie Burke (b), Osie Johnson (d) (1958); Mal Waldron (p), Michel Gaudry (b) (1958); Mal Waldron (p) & orchestra conducted by Peter Knight (1959); Roy Eldridge, Doc Cheatham (tp), Vic Dickenson (tb), Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins (ts), Gerry Mulligan (bar), Mal Waldron (p), Danny Barker (g), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d) (1957).

• Total Time 40 mins - 13 tracks - Compatible with all DVD players

Track Listing for Billie's Blues - Her Best Performances on Film
01 God Bless The Child (Herzog-Holiday) 2:36
02 Now Baby, Or Never (Holiday-Lewis) 2:14
03 My Man (Charles-Pollack-Yvain) 3:21
04 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (Clare-Palmer-Stept) 1:55
05 Billie’s Blues (Billie Holiday) 1:30
06 Easy To Remember (Rodgers-Hart) 2:56
07 What A Little Moonlight Can Do (Woods) 2:27
08 Foolin’ Myself (Lawrence-Tinturin) 2:24
09 I Only Have Eyes For You (Dubin-Warren) 1:50
10 Travelin’ Light (Mercer-Young) 3:11
11 Strange Fruit (Lewis Allan) 2:23
12 I Loves You Porgy (George & Ira Gershwin) 3:24
13 Fine And Mellow (Billie Holiday) 8:50

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