Personnel includes: Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong (vocals).Recorded between 1944-1949. Includes liner notes by Andy McKaie.A dozen of Lady Day's very best sides from 1944 to 1949 are aboard this wonderful collection. Classic takes o...
Jazz completists and Billie Holiday aficionados will want to seek out 2001's 10-CD compendium LADY DAY: THE COMPLETE BILLIE HOLIDAY ON COLUMBIA, which covers the legendary singer's entire output on Columbia between 1933 and 1944. Yet that s...
The 21 performances on 2004's Lady Day Live commence with seven selections broadcast on WMEX from the legendary Storyville in Boston on October 28 through November 1, 1951. Joining Holiday and her trio of John Fields (bass), Marquis Foster ...
Personnel includes: Billy Holiday (vocals); Cecil Scott (alto & tenor saxophone, clarinet); Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Lester Young (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Ben Webster, Herschel Evans, Claude Thornhill (tenor saxophone); Harry Car...
This compilation of articles about Billie Holiday includes reviews by renowned music critics Leonard Feather, Dan Morgenstern, and ROLLING STONE founder Ralph J.Gleason. It also contains an affectionate essay by Buck Clayton, the acclaimed ...
The complex life of jazz-singing legend Billie Holiday is meticulously examined through the fitting medium of her music in Robert O'Meally's biography, LADY DAY. Columbia University professor O'Meally explores Holiday's early career in the ...
This compilation of articles about Billie Holiday includes reviews by renowned music critics Leonard Feather, Dan Morgenstern, and ROLLING STONE founder Ralph J.Gleason. It also contains an affectionate essay by Buck Clayton, the acclaimed ...
A month-by-month chronology of the singer's life from the day she joined Count Basie's Orchestra in 1937 to her death in 1959. Highly illustrated with contemporary photographs, newspaper extracts, record and performance reviews, ads, and po...