Billie Holiday - The Best Of Billie Holiday (Audio CD 2005)

Pulled from old 78s, this isn't the place to start your Billie Holiday collection by a long shot. But this two-disc set is a pretty great overview of Lady Day's rise to greatness, featuring her own early sessions as well as her guest spots on a number of small- and big-band sides. Disc one finds her working with Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, and Eddie Heywood, while the second disc continues the thread with more sides with Wilson and Heywood, plus stray tracks with Paul Whiteman, Frankie Newton, and on her own. A nice chunk of early Lady Day.


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TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1

1. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
2. Miss Brown To You
3. Summertime
4. Billie's Blues
5. Easy Livin'
6. Them There Eyes
7. (This Is) My Last Affair
8. Any Old Time
9. I Cover The Waterfront
10. They Can't Take That Away From Me

Disc: 2

1. Sugar (That Sugar Baby O' Mine)
2. Strange Fruit
3. Fine and Mellow
4. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
5. Yesterdays
6. Love Me or Leave Me
7. God Bless The Child
8. My Man
9. Travelin' Light
10. I'll Get By