Billie Holiday Lady Day (Mono)

Remastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London. Pressed at Pallas in Germany!
This collection of classic jazz interpretations by Billie Holiday features all-star accompaniments from various sessions from 1935 to 1937. Tracks 5 & 6 on side A and tracks 4 & 5 on side B were taken from Billie's first and fifth sessions under her own name.
"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 things will ever come together again as they did when these records were made." - Excerpt from George Avakian's liner notes

Features:

• 180g Vinyl Analogue
• Pressed at Pallas in Germany
• Mono
• Limited Edition

Musicians:

• Billie Holiday, vocals
• Tracks A/1-3 - July 2, 1935:
• Roy Eldridge, trumpet
• Benny Goodman, clarinet
• Ben Webster, tenor saxophone
• Teddy Wilson, piano
• John Truehart, guitar
• John Kirby, bass
• Cozy Cole, drums
• Track A/4 - October 25, 1935:
• Replacing Goodman, Webster & Truehart:
• Benny Morton, trombone
• Chu Berry, tenor saxophone
• Dave Barbour, guitar
• Tracks A/5-6 - July 10, 1936:
• Bunny Berigan, trumpet
• Art Shaw, clarinet
• Joe Bushkin, piano
• Dick McDonough, guitar
• Pete Peterson, bass
• Cozy Cole, drums
• Track B/1 - January 25, 1937:
• Teddy Wilson, piano
• Buck Clayton, trumpet
• Benny Goodman, clarinet
• Lester Young, tenor saxophone
• Freddie Green, guitar
• Walter Page, bass
• Jo Jones, drums
• Tracks B/2-3 - June 1, 1937:
• Buster Bailey, clarinet (replaces Goodman)
• Tracks B/4-5 - June 15, 1937:
• Replacing Wilson & Goodman:
• Jimmy Sherman, piano
• Ed Hall, clarinet
• Track B/6 - June 30, 1936:
• Teddy Wilson, piano
• Jonah Jones, trumpet
• Johnny Hodges, alto saxophone
• Harry Carney, baritone saxophone
• Lawrence Lucie, guitar
• John Kirby, bass
• Cozy Cole, drums

Selections:

Side A
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
Side B
1. I Must Have That Man!
2. Foolin' Myself
3. Easy Living
4. Me, Myself and I
5. A Sailboat In the Moonlight
6. I Cried For You