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Billie's Best

Billie Holiday, Ray Brown (double bass), Ed Shaughnessy (drums), Herb Ellis (electric guitar), Oscar Peterson (piano), Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Red Mitchell (double bass), Alvin Stoller (drums), Barney Kessel (guitar), Ben Webster (saxophone), Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet), Jimmy Rowles (piano),...

  • Release Date: 1st Mar 2004
  • Catalogue No: E5139432
  • Label: Verve
  • Length: 60 minutes

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Contents

Harry M. Woods: What A Little Moonlight Can Do

Work length3:11
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Oscar Peterson (piano), Herb Ellis (electric guitar), Ray Brown (double bass), Ed Shaughnessy (drums)
  • Recorded: 1954-04-14
  • Recording Venue: Fine Sound, NYC

Gershwin: A Foggy Day (In London Town)

Work length4:38
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Harry 'Sweets' Edison (trumpet), Ben Webster (saxophone), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Red Mitchell (double bass), Alvin Stoller (drums)
  • Recorded: 1957
  • Recording Venue: Capitol Studios, Los Angeles

Arlen: Come rain or come shine

Work length4:20
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Harry 'Sweets' Edison (trumpet), Benny Carter (saxophone), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Jimmy Rowles (keyboards), Barney Kessel (electric guitar), John Simmons (double bass), Larry Bunker (drums)
  • Recorded: 1956
  • Recording Venue: Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA

Lew Brown, Charles Tobias, Sam H. Stept: Comes Love

Work length4:00
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Harry 'Sweets' Edison (trumpet), Ben Webster (saxophone), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Red Mitchell (double bass), Alvin Stoller (drums)
  • Recorded: 1957
  • Recording Venue: Capitol Studios, Los Angeles

Moret, Neil: He's Funny That Way

Work length3:14
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday
  • Recorded: 1952-07-27

Frank S. Perkins, Mitchell Parish: Stars Fell On Alabama

Work length4:27
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Ben Webster (saxophone), Red Mitchell (double bass), Alvin Stoller (drums), Harry 'Sweets' Edison (trumpet), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Barney Kessel (electric guitar)
  • Recorded: 1957
  • Recording Venue: Capitol Studios, Los Angeles

Wrubel: Gone with the wind

Work length3:22
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Harry 'Sweets' Edison (trumpet), Benny Carter (saxophone), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Barney Kessel (electric guitar), John Simmons (double bass), Larry Bunker (drums)
  • Recorded: 1955
  • Recording Venue: Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA

Gershwin: They Can't Take That Away From Me

Work length4:07
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Ben Webster (saxophone), Red Mitchell (double bass), Larry Bunker (drums), Harry 'Sweets' Edison (trumpet), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Barney Kessel (electric guitar)
  • Recorded: 1957
  • Recording Venue: Capitol Studios, Los Angeles

Brooks Bowman: East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)

Work length2:53
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Flip Phillips (saxophone), Barney Kessel (electric guitar), Ray Brown (double bass), Alvin Stoller (drums), Oscar Peterson (piano)
  • Recorded: 1952-03-26
  • Recording Venue: Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA

Harold Adamson, Burton Lane: Everything I Have Is Yours

Work length4:29
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), Harry 'Sweets' Edison (trumpet), Benny Carter (saxophone), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Jimmy Rowles (keyboards), Barney Kessel (electric guitar), John Simmons (double bass), Larry Bunker (drums)
  • Recorded: 1956
  • Recording Venue: Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA

Holiday: Stormy Blues

Work length3:27
$1.10
$1.50
  • Willie Smith (saxophone), Bobby Tucker (piano), Barney Kessel (electric guitar), Red Callender (double bass), Chico Hamilton (drums), Harry 'Sweets' Edison (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1954
  • Recording Venue: Capitol Studios, Los Angeles

Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill: Speak Low

Work length4:27
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Ben Webster (saxophone), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Barney Kessel (electric guitar), Joe Mondragon (double bass), Alvin Stoller (drums), Harry 'Sweets' Edison (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1956
  • Recording Venue: Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA

E.Y. Harburg: April In Paris

Work length3:02
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Ben Webster (saxophone), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Barney Kessel (electric guitar), Red Mitchell (double bass), Alvin Stoller (drums), Harry 'Sweets' Edison (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1956
  • Recording Venue: Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA

Berlin, I: I've got my love to keep me warm

Work length3:57
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Tony Scott (clarinet), Budd Johnson (saxophone), Billy Taylor (piano), Billy Bauer (electric guitar), Leonard Gaskin (double bass), Cozy Cole (drums), Leroy Lovett
  • Recorded: 1955-02-14
  • Recording Venue: Fine Sound, NYC

Irene Kitchings: Some Other Spring

Work length3:35
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Tony Scott (clarinet), Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Paul Quinichette (saxophone), Wynton Kelly (piano), Kenny Burrell (electric guitar), Aaron Bell (double bass), Lennie McBrowne (drums)
  • Tony Scott Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1956-06-06
  • Recording Venue: Fine Sound, NYC

Heusen: All the Way

Work length3:22
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis And His Orchestra, Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Romeo Penque (saxophone), Romeo Penque (double bass), Romeo Penque (clarinet), Hank Jones (piano), Hank Jones (keyboards), Kenny Burrell (electric guitar), Joe Benjamin (double bass), Janet Putnam (harp), Osie Johnson (drums)
  • Recorded: 1959-03-04
  • Recording Venue: Metropolitan Recording Studio, New York, NY

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