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Formats and Editions
1. Lost My Man Blues
2. Theme: Moten Swing
3. Announcer Introduction
4. Swing Brother Swing
5. Announcer Introduction
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me
7. I Cried For You
8. Fine and Mellow
9. Announcer Introduction
10. I'll Get By
11. Billie's Blues
12. Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me
13. Danny Kaye Introduces Jerome Kern, Who Presents Billie With Her
14. I Cover the Waterfront
15. Fine and Mellow
16. All of Me
17. Endy Gets Caught Playing Piano
18. Endy Goes to Storyville
19. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
20. Satchmo Talks
21. Farewell to Storyville
22. Farewell to Storyville: Studio Version
23. Blues Are Brewin': Studio Version, The
24. Man I Love, The
25. Miss Brown to You
26. Lover Man
27. I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
28. Billie's Blues
29. No More
30. Good Morning Heartache
1. You're Driving Me Crazy
2. Maybe You'll Be There
3. Introduction by Donald Wood
4. You'd Better Go Now
5. Them There Eyes
6. Lady Day and Eddie Condon Speak
7. Keeps on Rainin'
8. Lady Day and Eddie Condon Speak
9. Lover Man (Incomplete)
10. I Cover the Waterfront
11. All of Me
12. Narration/Early History
13. Fine and Mellow
14. Porgy
15. Jam Session Introduction
16. All of Me
17. You're My Thrill
18. Lover Come Back to Me
19. Ain't Nobody's Business
20. You're Driving Me Crazy
21. He's Funny That Way
22. Miss Brown to You
23. Lover Man
24. Them There Eyes
25. My Man
26. I Cover the Waterfront
27. Crazy He Calls Me
28. Detour Ahead
29. Strange Fruit
30. Ain't Nobody's Business
31. All of Me
1. Porgy
2. My Man
3. Tenderly
4. God Bless the Child
5. My Man
6. Them There Eyes
7. Lover Man
8. Willow Weep For Me
9. I Only Have Eyes For You
10. My Man
11. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
12. Jon McCloughland: Introduction
13. I Cover the Waterfront
14. Too Marvelous For Words
15. Porgy
16. Them There Eyes
17. Willow Weep For Me
18. I Only Have Eyes For You
19. You Go to My Head
20. Stormy Weather
21. Ghost of a Chance
22. Nice Work If You Can Get It
23. God Bless the Child
24. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
25. Don't Explain
26. Porgy
1. Fine and Mellow
2. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
3. Foolin' Myself
4. Easy to Remember
5. Moanin' Low
6. Don't Explain
7. When Your Lover Has Gone
8. Mort Saul: Introduction
9. Ain't Nobody's Business
10. Willow Weep For Me
11. When Your Lover Has Gone
12. God Bless the Child
13. I Only Have Eyes For You
14. Good Morning Heartache
15. Them There Eyes
16. Billie's Blues
17. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
18. Travelin' Light
19. Lover Come Back to Me
1. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
2. Lady Day Speaks: Early History
3. Just Friends
4. Lady Day Speaks: The Number 13
5. Ghost of a Chance
6. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone: 1
7. Everything Happens to Me
8. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone: 2
9. I Don't to Cry Anymore
10. Prelude to a Kiss
11. Jeepers Creepers
12. My Yiddishe Mama
13. Hey! Lady's Here
14. God Bless the Child
15. Introduction
16. Nice Work If You Can Get It
17. Willow Weep For Me
18. When Your Lover Has Gone
19. Billie's Blues
20. Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
21. God Bless the Child
22. Now or Never
23. Untitled Track
Details:
Remastered5 cd set
More Info:
In 1972, thirteen years after her death, Congress extended copyright protections to include recorded musical performances. Billie Holiday would have benefited greatly from such protection: during the more than twenty-five years of her career, Holiday gave an unknown number of live performances on TV & Radio and in clubs & concert halls, many of which were recorded both officially and unofficially by sound engineers, fellow musicians and fans. Today, ESP-Disck, which for many years has been assembling unofficial recordings of several artists from before 1972, has released one of the most comprehensive collections of live Billie Holiday recordings to date, some previously available but most not. These recordings, laid out in chronological order, not only demonstrate the arc of Holiday's development as a vocalist but give a rare behind-the-scenes look into how the singer approached her musicians and her audience. The first disc of this compilation opens with a twenty-year-old Billie Holiday performing with Duke Ellington in 1935, followed by a radio broadcast from the Savoy Hotel in New York two years later in which Holiday fronts the Count Basie Orchestra. The next four discs cover Holiday's career from 1949 to her death in 1959.Reviews:
Just when you thought you'd owned all the digitized Billie available to the human wallet, from the silken to the sullen, along comes this five-disc box. Though some of these recordings are rare for good reason, the magic glistens often enough to make it a necessary addition to your trove.
