BILLIE HOLIDAY - LADY DAY (180G IMPORT LP)

Billie Holiday Lady Day on 180g Import Vinyl LP

When planning this album, I had a hellish time trying to choose what I thought were the absolute cream of Billie Holiday. In the course of this wrestling, it struck me that not only were Billie’s vocals incredibly perfect, but that I could not remember a single instance of anyone playing a bad solo or even a bad phrase among the hundred or more performances I had to choose from in the golden period of her work. Checking over records (which was almost unnecessary, because I could still remember them almost note for note) was a rather beautiful and somewhat shattering experience. Jazz, a product of so many things, musical evolution, the social scene of a particular time, the economic atmosphere of the moment, what somebody had for breakfast that day and none of those tings will ever come together again as they did when these records were made. - Excerpt from George Avakian’s Liner Notes

Billie Holiday Lady Day Track Listing

1.  Miss Brown To You
2.  I Wished On the Moon
3.  What A Little Moonlight Can Do
4.  If You Were Mine
5.  Summertime
6.  Billie's Blues
7.  I Must Have That Man
8.  Foolin' Myself
9.  Easy Living
10. Me, Myself and I
11. A Sailboat In the Moonlight
12. I Cried For You