Billie Holiday - Music For Torching: The Billie Holiday Story Volume 5 [Recorded 1955] (1995)
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Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (527 455-2)
The overall feeling on this 1955 recording, which was originally titled Velvet Mood, is strictly after-hours: the party is long over but a few close friends remain for nightcaps and, is that the sun peeking through the windowà? With slow tempo songs outnumbering not-so-slow songs fourteen to four, producer Norman Granz may or may not have had concept album on his mind. Whatever the case, he brought together a brilliant cross-section of cats who evidently put Billie entirely at ease and in the mood - no small feat when one considers her spotty later recordings.
Lady Day's renderings here of "It Had to Be You" and "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" are timeless gems. Other highlights include Harry "Sweets" Edison and Benny Carter taking turns answering Holiday's vocalizations line by line, interviews in the liner notes with surviving members of the session, and a rehearsal track of Duke Ellington's "Prelude to a Kiss" recorded the night before by the bass player in his basement.
Tracklist:01. I Don't Want To Cry Any More
02. Prelude To A Kiss
03. (I Don't Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance (With You)
04. When Your Lover Has Gone
05. Gone With The Wind
06. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
07. It Had To Be You
08. Nice Work If You Can Get It
09. Come Rain Or Shine
10. I Got A Right To Sing The Blues
11. What's New?
12. A Fine Romance (Alternative Take)
13. A Fine Romance (Master Take)
14. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
15. I Get A Kick Out Of You
16. Everything I Have Is Yours
17. Isn't This A Lovely Day
18. Prelude To A Kiss (Rehearsal Excerpt)
Total time: 01:17:06
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