BILLIE HOLIDAY

BILLIE HOLIDAY
LADY DAY: THE BEST OF... (2001)
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Forget for a moment that The Best of Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday was tied into the release of the superb box set, ady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, thereby offering a bit of advertisement to the full-fledged set. That doesn't matter — even if there was never a box set, this would have been a welcome addition to Billie Holiday's catalog, since it's the first concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to her groundbreaking, perhaps greatest, recordings. Over the course of two discs, nearly all of her finest moments for Columbia are chronicled (along with a handful of rarities to entice the curious to the big box), providing a welcome summary for serious listeners on a budget. Prior to this release, the Columbia recordings were available either individually, as part of the Quintessential series, or on haphazard single-disc collections. This provides a logical, thorough overview of her acknowledged peak at Columbia (meaning that there's nothing from Lady in Satin) and that may be enough for serious listeners who don't have the money or inclination to delve into the full box.

CD1
1. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
2. These Foolish Things
3. I Cried For You
4. Summertime
5. Billie's Blues
6. If You Were Mine
7. A Fine Romance
8. Easy To Love
9. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
10. I Must Have That Man
11. Me, Myself And I
12. They Can't Take That Away From Me
13. Easy Living
14. A Sailboat In The Moonlight
15. Travelin' All Alone
16. When A Woman Loves A Man
17. You Go To My Head
18. My Man
CD2
1. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
2. The Very Thought Of You
3. I Can't Get Started
4. Long Gone Blues
5. Sugar
6. Some Other Spring
7. Them There Eyes
8. The Man I Love
9. Body And Soul
10. Swing, Brother, Swing
11. Night And Day
12. Let's Do It
13. God Bless The Child
14. Solitude
15. I Cover The Waterfront
16. Gloomy Sunday
17. Until The Real Thing Comes Along
18. All Of Me

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