Results for "Billie Holiday"

Billie Holiday: Lady in Satin

January 24, 2009

I've always had mixed feelings about Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin. I love the February 1958 recording, but I have to be in a certain mood to hear it. Billie is in the twilight of her career, and while her voice isn't quite as shattered as it would be on her final studio recording in March ...

L.A. Jazz Scene 2008: Alive and Swingin'

by Chuck Koton
January 22, 2009

The Los Angeles scene has often been referred to in patronizing terms by jazz lovers, musicians and writers. It has been said that the city's laid-back vibe deprives musicians of the energy that a New York audience can impart to the bandstand. Others complain that the growth of a hip jazz scene has been impeded by ...

The Intro Collection

By Billie Holiday

Label: Nimbus West Records
Released: 2008

Playlist - The Very Best Of Billie Holiday

By Billie Holiday

Label: Nimbus West Records
Released: 2008

Billie Holiday: Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959

By Billie Holiday

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Lost My Man Blues; Theme-Moten Swing; Announcer Introduction; Swing Brother Swing; Announcer Introduction; They Can't Take That Away from Me; I Cried For You; Fine and Mellow; Announcer Introduction; I'll Get By; Billie's Blues; Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me; Danny Kaye Introduces Jerome Kern, who presents Billie with her award; I Cover the Waterfront; Fine And Mellow; All of Me; Endy Gets Caught Playing the Piano; Endy Goes to Storyville; Do you Know What It Mean to Miss New Orleans; Satchmo Talks; Farewell to Storyville; Farewell to Storyville (Studio Version); The Blues Are Brewin' (Studio Version); The Man I Love; Miss Brown To You; Lover Man; I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone; Billie's Blues; No More; Good Morning Heartache. CD2: You're Driving Me Crazy; Maybe You'll Be There; Introduction by Donald Wood; You'd Better Go Now; Them There Eyes; Lady Day and Eddie Condon Speak; Keeps On Rainin'; Lady Day and Eddie Condon Speak; Lover Man (Incomplete); I Cover The Waterfront; All Of Me; Narration/Early History; Fine And Mellow; Porgy; Jam Session Introduction; All Of Me; You're My Thrill; Lover Come Back To Me; Ain't Nobody's Business; You're Driving Me Crazy; He's Funny That Way; Miss Brown To You; Lover Man; Them Their Eyes; My Man; I Cover The Waterfront; Crazy He Calls Me; Detour Ahead; Strange Fruit; Ain't Nobody's Business; All Of Me. CD3: Porgy; My Man; Tenderly; God Bless The Child; My Man; Them There Eyes; Lover Man; Willow Weep For Me; I Only Have Eyes For You; My Man; Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone; Jon McCloughland (Introduction); I Cover the Waterfront; Too Marvelous For Words; Porgy; Them There Eyes; Willow Weep for Me; I Only Have Eyes For You; You Go To My Head; Stormy Weather; Ghost of A Chance; Nice Work If You Can Get It; God Bless The Child; Please, Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone; Don't Explain; Porgy. CD4: Fine And Mellow; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; Foolin' Myself; Easy To Remember; Moanin' Low; Don't Explain; When Your Lover Has Gone; Mort Saul (Introduction); Ain't Nobody's Business; Willow Weep For Me; When Your Lover Has Gone; God Bless The Child; I Only Have Eyes For You; Good Morning Heartache; Them There Eyes; Billie's Blues; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; Travelin' Light; Lover Come Back To Me. CD5: I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good; Lady Day Speaks - Early History); Just Friends; Lady Day Speaks - The Number 13; Ghost Of A Chance; Please, Don't Talk About Me When I Am Gone - 1; Everything Happens To Me; Please, Don't Talk About Me When I Am Gone - 2; I Don't Want To Cry Anymore; Prelude to A Kiss; Jeepers Creepers; My Yiddishe Mama; Hey! Lady's Here; God Bless The Child; Introduction; Nice Work If You Can Get It; Willow Weep For Me; When Your Lover Has Gone; Billie's Blues; Please, Don't Talk About Me When I Am Gone; God Bless The Child; Now Or Never; Ray Charles Comment.

I Loves You Porgy

Featuring the music of Billie Holiday
Duration: 2:46
September 13, 2008

Rare Images Mean Big Money for Labels

August 2, 2008

As CD sales sink, Sony BMG and Warner open their art archives Amid drastic drop-offs in CD sales, the major labels have discovered new sources of revenue -- by looking in their basements. Sony BMG recently launched Icon Collectibles, a line of rare photos from the label's archives, with candid, unpublished shots of artists from Miles ...

Billie Holiday Film to be Shot in Connecticut

May 22, 2008

A press event will be held on May 21, 2008 from 12:00 noon until 2:00 PM at the Shubert Theater, 247 College Street, New Haven. Wayne Holmes, Co-Owner of Rockville USA Production Studios in Rockville, Connecticut (a member of Connecticut's Hollywood East Legislative Task Force), will announce details about “Lady Day, “ a new feature film ...

Billie Holiday: Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles & Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959

by Andrew Velez
April 6, 2008

Billie Holiday Lady Day--The Master Takes and Singles Columbia-Legacy 2007 Billie Holiday Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959 ESP-Disk 2007 The earliest 11 sides on Lady Day, a quartet ...

Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday: Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959

by Lyn Horton
February 12, 2008

The mystique associated with musical artists who have passed away often preoccupies those who continue to maintain an avid interest in the past of those musicians. A question to ask though is: how can anyone possibly know the internal perils and joys of these intriguing artistic beings? No matter how much research is done or how ...