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Great Women of Song: Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

Contents

Rodgers, R: Blue Moon

Work length3:28
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), 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

Fain: I'll Be Seeing You

Work length3:32
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), Lem Davis (alto saxophone), John Simmons (double bass), Sidney Catlett (drums), Teddy Walters (guitar), Eddie Heywood (piano), Vic Dickenson (trombone), Doc Cheatham (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1944-04-01
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

Ellington: Solitude

Work length3:28
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), 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

Bob Russell, Carl Sigman: Crazy He Calls Me

Work length3:05
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals)
  • Gordon Jenkins
  • Recorded: 1949-10-19
  • Recording Venue: New York City, NY

Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham: Good Morning Heartache

Work length3:08
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), John Simmons (double bass), Sid Catlett (drums), Tiny Grimes (guitar), Joe Springer (piano), Hank Ross (tenor saxophone), Bernie Kaufman (tenor saxophone), Armand Camgros (tenor saxophone), Chris Griffin (trumpet), Joe Guy (trumpet)
  • Bill Stegmeyer's Orchestra
  • Recorded: 1946-01-22

Lewis Allan: Strange Fruit

Work length3:12
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday, Sonny White (piano), Tab Smith (alto saxophone), John Williams (double bass), Eddie Dougherty (drums), Stanley Payne (tenor saxophone), Frank Newton (trumpet)
  • Recorded: 1939-04-20
  • Recording Venue: World Broadcasting Studio, New York City

Hupfeld: As Time Goes By

Work length3:14
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals)
  • Recorded: 1944-04-01
  • Recording Venue: W.O.R. Studio, New York City

E.Y. Harburg: April In Paris

Work length3:05
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), 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: 1956-08-18
  • Recording Venue: Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA

Duke, V: Autumn in New York

Work length3:45
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Flip Phillips (saxophone), Barney Kessel (electric guitar), Ray Brown (double bass), Alvin Stoller (drums), Oscar Peterson (piano)
  • Recorded: 1952-06-12
  • Recording Venue: Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA

J. Fred Coots, Dizzy Gillespie: You Go To My Head

Work length2:55
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Flip Phillips (saxophone), Barney Kessel (electric guitar), Ray Brown (double bass), Alvin Stoller (drums), Oscar Peterson (piano)
  • Recorded: 1952
  • Recording Venue: Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA

Roger J. "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, James Davis: Lover Man

Work length3:19
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals)
  • Camarata
  • Recorded: 1945

Billie Holiday, Herbie Nichols: Lady Sings The Blues

Work length3:44
$1.10
$1.50
  • Billie Holiday (vocals), 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