Billie Holiday, Compact Jazz: Billie Holiday - 59m 31s

Tracks & Durations

1. Nice Work If You Can Get It	3:52
2. I Hadn't Anyone Till You	4:05
3. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me	4:15
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You	5:42
5. Gone With The Wind	3:25
6. A Fine Romance	3:35
7. Sophisticated Lady	4:51
8. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone	4:22
9. Prelude To A Kiss	5:36
10. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues	5:53
11. Cheek To Cheek	3:37
12. I Don't Want To Cry Anymore	3:56
13. Ill Wind	6:13

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Review

Drawn from Billie Holiday's recordings for Verve in 1955 and 1956, this CD presents a singer of profound intensity and inventive phrasing, an artist able to make strong musical statements with the complex, bittersweet grain that time and experience had left on her voice. The swing tunes contain untold joys; the depths of sorrow concentrated in the ballads, such as "I Don't Want to Cry Anymore," defy description. The accompanying bands are superb, with guitarist Barney Kessel and the underrated pianist Jimmy Rowles heard throughout and Harry Edison, Benny Carter, and Ben Webster providing fills and solos that seem to effortlessly complement Holiday's voice. "Ill Wind," in particular, is a masterpiece in which the sequence from Holiday's vocals to the horn solos is in perfect sympathy. --Stuart Broomer

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