Billie Holiday - Songs for Distingue Lovers - 180g Vinyl! w/ BONUS tracks
Artist: Billie Holiday | Label: Jazz Images | Format: LP | Genre: Jazz | Album Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed
Songs for Distingue Lovers
"Songs for Distingué Lovers" was one of the numerous albums Billie Holiday recorded in the 1950s, during her contract with jazz producer Norman Granz. The jazz impresario surrounded the singer with important instrumentalists, such as Ben Webster and Harry “Sweets” Edison, who had both worked with the singer during the 1930s and 1940s – Edison as a member of the Count Basie Orchestra during Holiday’s brief stint as the band’s female vocalist, and Webster from the recordings under her own name for Vocalion Records and Okeh Records. Granz also provided her with a repertoire including some of the best pieces from the Great American Songbook.
PERSONNEL:
BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocalsBEN WEBSTER, tenor sax
HARRY “SWEETS” EDISON, trumpet
JIMMY ROWLES, piano
BARNEY KESSEL, guitar
RED MITCHELL, bass
ALVIN STOLLER or LARRY BUNKER, drums
All tracks recorded in Hollywood, California, January 1957.
TRACKS:
DAY IN, DAY OUTA FOGGY DAY
STARS FELL ON ALABAMA
ONE FOR MY BABY (AND ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD)
JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS
I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS
I WISHED ON THE MOON (**)
