Billie Holiday – Lady Day (Pure Pleasure)
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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.
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A1 Miss Brown To You
A2 I Wished On The Moon
A3 What A Little Moonlight Can Do
A4 If You Were Mine
A5 Summertime
A6 Billie'S Blues
B1 I Must Have That Man
B2 Foolin' Myself
B3 Easy Living
B4 Me, Myself And I
B5 A Sailboat In The Moonlight
B6 I Cried For You