Billie Holiday
Titel:

The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959

Label:

 Verve Records, 01841
314 513 860-2 bis 
314 513 869-2

1992

10-CD-Box

Aufnahmeort / Datum:
1) Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 12. 02. 1945
2) Carnegie Hall, New York City, 27. 05. 1946
3) Carnegie Hall, New York City, 03. 06. 1946
4) Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 07. 10. 1946
5) Carnegie Hall, New York City, 24. 05. 1947
6) Radio Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, Frühling 1952
7) Studio Session, New York City, 27. 07. 1952
8) Kölner Messehalle 5, Köln, Deutschland, 23. 01. 1954 First Set
9) Kölner Messehalle 5, Köln, Deutschland, 23. 01. 1954 Second Set
10) Fine Sound Studios, New York City, 14. 04. 1954
11) Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 03. 09. 1954
12) Fine Sound Studios, New York City, 14. 02. 1955
13) Artie Shapiro`s Haus, Los Angeles, 22. 08. 1955
14) Radio Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, 23. 08. 1955
15) Radio Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, 25. 08. 1955
16) William und Maely Duffy`s Haus, New York City, 30. 05. 1956
17) Fine Sound Studios, New York City, 06. 06. 1956
18) Fine Sound Studios, New York City, 07. 06. 1956
19) Radio Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, 14. 08. 1956
20) Radio Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, 18. 08. 1956
21) Carnegie Hall, New York City, 10. 11. 1956 First Set
22) Carnegie Hall, New York City, 10. 11. 1956 Second Set
23) Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 03. 01. 1957
24) Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 04. 01. 1957
25) Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 07. 01. 1957
26) Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 08. 01. 1957
27) Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 09. 01. 1957
28) Newport Jazzfestival, Freebody Park, Newport, Rhode Island, 06. 07. 1957
29) Oakdale Musical Theater, Wallingford, Connecticut, 26. 09. 1958
30) Metropolitan Recording Studio, New York City, 03. - 04. 03. 1959
31) Metropolitan Recording Studio, New York City, 04. - 05. 03. 1959
32) Metropolitan Recording Studio, New York City, 11. 03. 1959

Songtitel:

Spielzeit:
1) Body And Soul
1) Strange Fruit
2) I Cried For You
2) Fine And Mellow
2) He's Funny That Way
3) The Man I Love
3) Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
3) All Of Me
3) Billie's Blues (Aka I Love My Man)
4) Travelin' Light
4) He's Funny That Way
5) Norman Granz 'Announcement'
5) You Better Go Now
5) You're Driving Me Crazy
5) There Is No Greater Love
5) I Cover The Waterfront
5) Norman Granz 'Announcement'
6) East Of The Sun
6) Blue Moon
6) You Go To My Head
6) You Turned The Tables On Me
6) Easy To Love
6) These Foolish Things
6) I Only Have Eyes For You
6) Solitude

Gesamtspielzeit Disk 1

6) Everything I Have Is Yours
6) Love For Sale
6) Moonglow
6) Tenderly
6) If The Moon Turns Green
6) Remember
6) Autumn In New York (common take - LP)
6) Autumn In New York (rare take - 78 RPM)
7) My Man
7) Lover, Come Back To Me
7) Stormy Weather
7) Yesterdays
7) He's Funny That Way
7) I Can't Face The Music
8) MC and Leonard Feather 'Announcements'
8) Blue Moon
8) All Of Me
8) My Man
8) Them There Eyes
8) I Cried For You
8) What A Little Moonlight Can Do
8) I Cover The Waterfront
9) Leonard Feather 'Announcement'
9) Billie's Blues (aka I Love My Man)

Gesamtspielzeit Disk 2

9) Lover, Come Back To Me
10) How Deep Is The Ocean?
10) What A Little Moonlight Can Do
10) I Cried For You And Her Band
11) Love Me Or Leave Me
11) P.S. I Love You
11) Too Marvelous For Words
11) Softly
11) I Thought About You
11) Willow Weep For Me
11) Stormy Blues
12) Say It Isn't So
12) I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
12) I Wished On The Moon
12) Always
12) Everything Happens To Me
12) Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
12) Ain't Misbehavin'

Gesamtspielzeit Disk 3

13) Nice Work If You Can Get It
13) Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It
13) Mandy Is Two
13) Prelude To A Kiss
13) I Must Have That Man!
13) Jeepers Creepers
13) Jeepers Creepers
13) Discussion/Jeepers Creepers
13) Discussion/Jeepers Creepers
13) Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
13) Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
13) Discussion/Moonlight In Vermont
13) Misery
13) Restless
13) Moonlight In Vermont
13) Everything Happens To Me
13) Discussion
13) I Don't Want To Cry Any More
13) I Don't Want To Cry Any More
13) Discussion/I Don't Want To Cry Any More
13) Everything Happens To Me
13) Discussion
13) When You Are Away, Dear
13) Discussion
13) It Had To Be You
13) The Mood That I'm In
13) Gone With The Wind
13) I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
13) Discussion
13) A Sunbonnet Blue
13) (I Dont' Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance
13) Discussion
13) I'm Walkin' Though Heaven With You
13) Discussion
13) Just Friends
13) The Nearness Of You
13) Discussion
13) It's Too Hot For Words
13) They Say
13) I Won't Believe It

Gesamtspielzeit Disk 4

14) I Don't Want To Cry Any More (take 1 - false start)
14) I Don't Want To Cry Any More (take 2 - master take)
14) Studio Talk: Prelude To A Kiss (take 1 - false start)
14) Studio Talk: Prelude To A Kiss (take 2 - incomplete take)
14) Prelude To A Kiss (take 3 - master take)
14) (I Don't Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance
14) When Your Lover has Gone (take 1 - incomplete take)
14) Studio Talk: When Your Lover Has Gone (take 2 - incomplete take)
14) Studio Talk
14) When Your Lover Has Gone (take 3 - master take)
14) Gone With The Wind
14) Studio Talk
14) Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
14) It Had To Be You
14) Studio Talk
14) Nice Work If You Can Get It
15) Come Rain Or Come Shine
15) I Got A Right To Sing The Blues
15) What's New?
15) A Fine Romance (take 1 - incomplete take)
15) A Fine Romance (take 2 - alternate take)
15) A Fine Romance (take 3 - false start)
15) A Fine Romance (take 4 - incomplete take)
15) A Fine Romance (take 5 - incomplete take)
15) A Fine Romance (take 6 - false start)
15) A Fine Romance (take 7 - incomplete take)
15) A Fine Romance (take 8 - master take)
15) Studio Talk
15) I Hadn't Anyone Till You

Gesamtspielzeit Disk 5

15) I Get A Kick Out Of You
15) Everything I Have Is Yours
15) Isn't This A Lovely Day?
16) Discussion/Misery
16) Israel
16) Misery
16) Discussion
16) I Must Have That Man!
16) Discussion
16) Strange Fruit
16) Discussion: God Bless The Child
16) Discussion
16) God Bless The Child
16) God Bless The Child
16) Discussion
16) God Bless The Child
16) One Never Knows, Does One?
16) Discussion
16) Beer Barrel Polka (Aka Roll Out The Barrel)
16) Some Of These Days
16) A Yiddishe Momme
16) A Yiddishe Momme
16) Discussion
16) Lady's Back In Town
16) Discussion
16) Discussion
16) One Never Knows, Does One?
16) Discussion
16) (Unknown Title)

Gesamtspielzeit Disk 6

17) Travelin' Light
17) I Must Have That Man!
17) Some Other Spring
17) Lady Sings The Blues
18) Strange Fruit
18) God Bless The Child
18) Good Morning Heartache
18) No Good Man
19) Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
19) Cheek To Cheek
19) Ill Wind
19) Speak Low
20) We'll Be Together Again
20) All Or Nothing At All
20) Sophisticated Lady
20) April In Paris

Gesamtspielzeit Disk 7

21) Lady Sings The Blues (With Reading From 'Lady Sings The Blues')
22) Lady Sings The Blues
22) Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
22) Travelin' Light (With Reading From 'Lady Sings The Blues')
22) Reading From 'Lady Sings The Blues'
22) Billie's Blues (Aka I Love My Man)
22) Body and Soul
22) Reading From 'Lady Sings The Blues'
22) Don't Explain
23) Yesterdays
23) Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
23) I'll Be Seeing You
23) Reading From 'Lady Sings The Blues'
23) My Man
23) I Cried For You
23) Fine And Mellow
23) I Cover The Waterfront
23) What A Little Moonlight Can Do
24) I Wished On The Moon
24) Moonlight In Vermont
24) A Foggy Day (Stereo)
25) I Didn't Know What Time It Was
25) Just One Of Those Things (take 7 - incomplete take)
25) Studio Talk
25) Just One Of Those Things (take 8 - master take)
25) Studio Talk
25) Comes Love (take 1 - alternate take)
25) Comes Love (take 2 - false start)
25) Comes Love (take 3 - false start)
25) Comes Love (take 4 - master take)

Gesamtspielzeit Disk 8

26) Day In, Day Out (Stereo)
26) Darn That Dream
26) But Not For Me
26) Body And Soul
27) Studio Talk
27) Just Friends (Instrumental)
27) Studio Talk
27) Stars Fell On Alabama (take 1 - incomplete take)
27) Stars Fell On Alabama (take 2 - master take) (Stereo)
27) Studio Talk: Say It Isn't So (take 1 - incomplete take)
27) Say It Isn't So (take 2 - master take)
27) Studio Talk: Our Love Is Here To Stay (take 1 - false start)
27) Our Love Is Here To Stay (take 2 - master take)
27) Studio Talk: One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (take 1 - false start)
27) One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (take 2 - incomplete take)
27) One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (take 3 - master take)
28) They Can't Take That Away From Me
28) Embraceable You
28) Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
28) Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?

Gesamtspielzeit Disk 9

29) Willis Conover Announcement
29) Johnny Mercer Announcement
29) Fanfare From: Oh, Lady be Good
29) Nice Work If You Can Get it
29) Willow Weep For Me
29) My Man
29) Lover, Come Back To Me
29) Lady Sings The Blues
29) What A Little Moonlight Can Do
29) Fanfare From: Oh, Lady Be Good
30) Leonard Feather Announcement
30) I Wished On The Moon
30) Lover Man
30) All The Way
30) It's Not For Me To Say
30) I'll Never Smile Again
30) Just One More Chance
31) When It's Sleepy Time Down South
31) Don't Worry 'Bout Me
31) Sometimes I'm Happy
31) You Took Advantage Of Me
32) There'll Be Some Changes Made
32) 'Deed I Do
32) All Of You
32) Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?

Gesamtspielzeit Disk 10

03:24
02:56
02:18
03:51
03:17
03:04
02:20
01:56
03:35
03:28
02:51
00:08
02:56
01:30
02:34
02:58
00:24
02:54
03:28
02:54
03:26
03:00
03:34
02:52
03:29

69:47

03:43
02:56
02:58
03:23
02:44
02:35
03:40
03:52
02:36
03:35
03:41
02:48
03:11
03:14
00:37
02:15
01:43
02:52
01:28
03:20
02:56
03:17
00:21
11:39

76:04

06:46
02:57
03:10
02:26
02:33
03:35
02:11
02:55
02:45
03:05
03:26
03:01
03:55
06:48
03:57
06:20
05:00
04:39

70:14

04:05
00:40
04:31
02:46
01:05
02:13
00:51
03:25
02:27
01:57
02:57
00:52
00:36
02:45
02:00
03:26
00:37
04:25
02:25
05:32
03:00
01:48
01:40
00:48
01:54
00:31
01:36
03:17
02:31
00:06
01:32
02:14
02:05
00:42
01:01
01:04
00:27
00:21
02:25
00:20

69:47

00:29
03:54
00:14
00:50
05:32
04:26
00:49
01:00
00:22
04:55
03:23
00:10
04:19
04:01
00:08
03:47
04:21
05:51
04:16
00:46
02:44
00:18
01:16
03:18
00:26
03:12
03:32
00:06
04:03

73:12

05:39
04:29
04:11
01:26
02:18
04:40
01:16
06:29
00:27
05:48
05:50
01:16
03:15
01:08
00:35
03:34
02:07
02:00
01:19
01:03
00:39
02:16
00:42
02:36
04:33
01:13
02:39
01:19
01:54

76:57

03:07
03:03
03:36
03:44
03:01
03:58
03:29
03:18
04:12
03:35
06:14
04:25
04:24
05:39
04:48
03:02

64:20

02:52
02:38
02:30
00:44
02:06
03:20
02:39
00:55
02:26
01:16
01:43
02:28
02:50
03:13
03:09
03:15
03:46
02:49
03:25
03:49
04:40
05:59
00:25
00:47
05:31
00:29
03:58
00:38
00:18
04:00

79:12

06:47
06:19
03:48
06:22
00:45
06:26
00:16
00:36
04:29
00:24
03:16
00:25
03:42
00:28
01:56
05:39
04:10
06:47
03:24
05:38

72:11

00:54
00:42
00:11
02:39
03:08
03:30
02:05
03:00
02:54
00:18
00:47
02:43
03:01
03:23
02:26
03:23
03:43
04:05
03:08
02:46
03:08
02:52
02:13
02:30
03:03

63:16

Musiker:

1) 12. 02. 1945:
Billie Holiday (voc), Howard McGhee (tp), Willie Smith (as), Illinois Jaquet, Wardell Gray, Charlie Ventura (ts), Milt Raskin (p), Dave Barbour (el-g), Charlles Mingus (b), Davie Coleman (d)
2) 27. 05. 1946:
Billie Holiday (voc), Buck Clayton (tp), Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jaquet, Lester Young (ts), Ken Kersey (p), John Collins oder Tiny Grimes (el-g), Curley Russell (b), J. C. Heard (d)
3) 03. 06. 1946:
Billie Holiday (voc), Joe Guy (tp), Georgie Auld (as), Illinois Jaquet, Lester Young (ts), Ken Kersey (p), Tiny Grimes (el-g), Al McKibbon (b), J. C. Heard (d)
4) 07. 10. 1946:
Billie Holiday (voc), Howard McGhee (tp), Trummy Young (tb), Illinois Jaquet (ts), Ken Kersey (p), Barney Kessel (el-g), Charlie Drayton (b), Jackie Mills (d)
5) 24. 05. 1947:
Billie Holiday (voc), Bobby Tucker (p)
6) Frühling 1952:
Billie Holiday (voc), Charlie Shavers (tp), Flip Phillips (ts), Oscar Peterson (p), Barney Kessel (el-g), Ray Brown (b), Alvin Stller (d)
7) 27. 07. 1952:
Billie Holiday (voc), Joe Newman (tp), Paul Quinichette (ts), Oscar Peterson (p, org), Freddie Green (g), Ray Brown (b), Gus Johnson (d)
8) 23. 01. 1954 First Set:
Billie Holiday (voc), Carl Drinkard (p), Red Mitchell (b), Elaine Leighton (d)
9) 23. 01. 1954 Second Set:
Billie Holiday (voc), Buddy DeFranco (cl), Red Norvo (vib), Beryl Booker, Sonny Clark (p), Jimmy Raney (el-g), Red Mitchell (b), Elaine Leighton (d)
10) 14. 04. 1954:
Billie Holiday (voc), Charlie Shavers (tp), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (el-g), Ray Brown (b), Ed Shaughnessy (d)
11) 03. 09. 1954:
Billie Holiday (voc), Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp), Willie Smith (as), Bobby Tucker (p), Barney Kessel (el-g), Red Callender (b), Chico Hamilton (d)
12) 14. 02. 1955:
Billie Holiday (voc), Charlie Shavers (tp), Tony Scott (cl), Budd Johnson (ts), Billy Taylor (p), Billy Bauer (el-g), Leonard Gaskin (b), Cozy Cole (d), Leroy Lovett (musical director)
13) 22. 08. 1955:
Billie Holiday (voc), Jimmy Rowles (p), Artie Shapiro (b)
14) 23. 08. 1955:
Billie Holiday (voc), Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp), Benny Carter (as), Jimmy Rowles (p), Barney Kessel (el-g), John Simmons (b), Larry Bunker (d)
15) 25. 08. 1955: siehe 14)
16) 30. 05. 1956:
Billie Holiday (voc), Tony Scott (p)
17) 06. 06. 1956:
Billie Holiday (voc), Charlie Shavers (tp), Tony Scott (cl), Paul Quinichette (ts), Wynton Kelly (p), Kenny Burrell (el-g), Aaron Bell (b), Lennie McBrowne (d)
18) 07. 06. 1956: siehe 17)
19) 14. 08. 1956:
Billie Holiday (voc), Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp), Ben Webster (ts), Jimmy Rowles (p), Barney Kessel (el-g), Joe Mondragon (b), Alvin Stoller (d)
20) 18. 08. 1956:
Billie Holiday (voc), Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp), Ben Webster (ts), Jimmy Rowles (p), Barney Kessel (el-g), Red Mitchell (b), Alvin Stoller (d)
21) 10. 11. 1956 first set:
Billie Holiday (voc), Roy Eldridge (tp), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Carl Drinkard, Tony Scott (p), Kenny Burrell (el-g), Carson Smith (b), Chico Hamilton (d)
22) 10. 11. 1956 second set:
Billie Holiday (voc), Buck Clayton (tp), Al Cohn (ts), Carl Drinkard (p), Tony Scott (cl), Kenny Burrell (el-g), Carson Smith (b), Chico Hamilton (d)
23) 03. 01. 1957: siehe 20)
24) 04. 01. 1957: siehe 20)
25) 07. 01. 1957: siehe 20)
26) 08. 01. 1957: siehe 20)
27) 09. 01. 1957:
Billie Holiday (voc), Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp), Ben Webster (ts), Jimmy Rowles (p), Barney Kessel (el-g), Red Mitchell (b), Larry Bunker (d)
28) 06. 07. 1957:
Billie Holiday (voc), Mal Waldron (p), Joe Benjamin (b), Jo Jones (d)
29) 26. 09. 1958:
Billie Holiday (voc), Buck Clayton (tp), Georgie Auld oder Coleman Hawkins (ts), Mal Waldron (p), Milt Hinton (b), Don Lamond (d)
30) 03. - 04. 03. 1959:
Billie Holiday (voc), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Romeo Penque (as, ts, bcl), Hank Jones (p, cel), Kenny Burrell (el-g), Joe Benjamin (b), Janet Putnam (harp), Osie Johnson (d), unbekannt (strings), Ray Ellis (arr, cond)
31) 04. - 05. 03. 1959:
Billie Holiday (voc), Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Gene Quill (as), Hank Jones (p), Barry Galbraiht (el-g), Milt Hinton (b), unbekannt (harp), Osie Johnson (d), unbekannt (strings), Ray Ellis (arr, cond)
32) 11. 03. 1959:
Billie Holiday (voc), Harry "Sweets" Edison, Joe Wilder (tp), Al Cohn (ts), Billy Byers (tb), Danny Bank (bars), Hank Jones (p), Barry Galbraiht (el-g), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d), Ray Ellis (arr, cond)