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Billie Holiday - Billie's Best
Performer:
Billie Holiday
Title:

Billie's Best

Category:
MP3 RAR album size:
1829 mb
FLAC RAR album size:
1576 mb
Formats:
AHX TTA VOX ADX MMF WMA APE
Short-Info
Label: Verve Records ‎– 314 513 943-2
Type: CD, Compilation, Remastered
Country: US
Date of released: 1992
Category: Jazz
Style: Vocal
Rating:
3.7 / 5
Votes:
311

Tracklist Hide Credits

1 What A Little Moonlight Can Do
Bass – Ray BrownDrums – Ed ShaughnessyElectric Guitar – Herb EllisPiano – Oscar PetersonTrumpet – Charlie ShaversWritten-By – Harry Woods
3:10
2 A Foggy Day
Bass – Red MitchellDrums – Alvin StollerElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Jimmy RowlesTenor Saxophone – Ben WebsterTrumpet – Harry "Sweets" Edison*Written-By – George & Ira Gershwin
4:40
3 Come Rain Or Come Shine
Alto Saxophone – Benny CarterBass – John SimmonsDrums – Larry BunkerElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Jimmy RowlesTrumpet – Harry "Sweets" Edison*Written-By – Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer*
4:21
4 Comes Love
Bass – Red MitchellDrums – Alvin StollerElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Jimmy RowlesTenor Saxophone – Ben WebsterTrumpet – Harry "Sweets" Edison*Written-By – Charles Tobias, Sam Stept*Written-By – Lew Brown
4:00
5 He's Funny That Way
Bass – Ray BrownDrums – Gus JohnsonGuitar – Freddie GreenPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Paul QuinichetteTrumpet – Joe NewmanWritten-By – Neil Moret, Richard Whiting
3:11
6 Stars Fell On Alabama
Bass – Red MitchellDrums – Alvin StollerElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Jimmy RowlesTenor Saxophone – Ben WebsterTrumpet – Harry "Sweets" Edison*Written-By – Mitchell ParishWritten-By – Frank S. Perkins*
4:29
7 Gone With The Wind
Bass – John SimmonsDrums – Larry BunkerElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Jimmy RowlesWritten-By – Allie Wrubel, Herbert Magidson
3:23
8 They Can't Take That Away From Me
Bass – Red MitchellDrums – Larry BunkerElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Jimmy RowlesTenor Saxophone – Ben WebsterTrumpet – Harry "Sweets" Edison*Written-By – George & Ira Gershwin
4:10
9 East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)
Bass – Ray BrownDrums – Alvin StollerElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsTrumpet – Charlie ShaversWritten-By – Brooks Bowman
2:54
10 Everything I Have Is Yours
Bass – Ray BrownDrums – Alvin StollerElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Oscar PetersonTenor Saxophone – Flip PhillipsWritten-By – Harold AdamsonWritten-By – Burton Lane
3:43
11 Stormy Blues
Alto Saxophone – Willie Smith Bass – Red CallenderDrums – Chico HamiltonElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Bobby TuckerTrumpet – Harry "Sweets" Edison*Written-By – Billie Holiday
3:26
12 Speak Low
Bass – Joe MondragonDrums – Alvin StollerElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Jimmy RowlesTenor Saxophone – Ben WebsterWritten-By – Kurt WeillWritten-By – Ogden Nash
4:25
13 April In Paris
Bass – Red MitchellDrums – Alvin StollerElectric Guitar – Barney KesselPiano – Jimmy RowlesTenor Saxophone – Ben WebsterTrumpet – Harry "Sweets" Edison*Written-By – E.Y. "Yip" Harburg*Written-By – Vernon Duke
3:02
14 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Bass – Leonard GaskinClarinet – Tony Scott Directed By [Musical Director] – Leroy LovettDrums – Cozy ColeElectric Guitar – Billy BauerPiano – Billy TaylorTenor Saxophone – Budd JohnsonTrumpet – Charlie ShaversWritten-By – Irving Berlin
3:55
15 Some Other Spring
Bass – Aaron BellClarinet – Tony Scott Drums – Lenny McBrowneElectric Guitar – Kenny BurrellPiano – Wynton KellyTenor Saxophone – Paul QuinichetteTrumpet – Charlie ShaversWritten-By – Irene KitchingsWritten-By – Arthur Herzog Jr.*
3:36
16 All The Way
Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Romeo PenqueArranged By, Conductor – Ray EllisBass – Joe BenjaminDrums – Osie JohnsonElectric Guitar – Kenny BurrellHarp – Janet PutnamPiano, Celesta – Hank JonesWritten-By – Jimmy Van Heusen-Sammy Cahn*
3:23

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – PolyGram Records, Inc.
  • Copyright (c) – PolyGram Records, Inc.
  • Manufactured By – Verve Records
  • Marketed By – Verve Records

Credits

  • Liner Notes – James Isaacs
  • Reissue Producer [Additional Production Assistance] – Cliff Preiss, Peter Pullman
  • Reissue Producer [Production Assistant], Remastered By, Technician [Restoration] – Phil Schaap
  • Remastered By [Remastered For Compact Disc] – Tom Ruff
  • Supervised By [Compilation] – Michael Lang
  • Vocals – Billie Holiday

Notes

Newly remastered selections from: The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (10 CD box set).

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 7 314-513943-2 4

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
513 943-2 Billie Holiday Billie's Best ‎(CD, Comp, RE, RM) Verve Records 513 943-2 Europe Unknown
P2-13943 Billie Holiday Billie's Best ‎(CD, Comp) Verve Records P2-13943 US 1992
ACV4007 Billie Holiday Billie's Best ‎(2xLP, Comp, Cle) Doxy ACV4007 Europe 2017
513 943-2 Billie Holiday Billie's Best ‎(CD, Comp, RM) Verve Records 513 943-2 Europe 1992
314 513 943-2 Billie Holiday Billie's Best ‎(CD, Comp, Club, RM) Verve Records 314 513 943-2 US 1992

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