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Released
  
March 1953

An Evening with Billie Holiday (1953)
  
Billie Holiday (1954)

Release date
  
1953

Label
  
Clef Records

Length
  
23: 45

Artist
  
Billie Holiday

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
April 1952, July 27, 1952

Similar
  
Billie Holiday albums, Jazz albums

An Evening with Billie Holiday (MG C-144) is the second 10 inch LP studio album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released by Clef Records in 1953.

Contents

In 1956, when the 10inch format was phased out, the album was reissued by Clef with the same artwork, and seven of the eight tracks, as a twelve-inch LP called A Recital By Billie Holiday (MG C-686). The track "Tenderly", was moved to another 12 inch compilation called Solitude. Five additional tracks were added that had been previously released on her third 10"LP, simply titled Billie Holiday.

1953 10" LP, An Evening with Billie Holiday

A side
  1. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:41
  2. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:36
  3. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:37
  4. "He's Funny That Way" (Richard Whiting, Neil Moret) – 3:11
B side
  1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach – 2:49
  2. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:23
  3. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
  4. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 2:34

1956 12" LP, A Recital By Billie Holiday

A side
  1. "If the Moon Turns Green" (George Cates, Bernie Hanighen) – 2:46
  2. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 2:34
  3. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 3:43
  4. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:37
  5. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:36
  6. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:41
B side
  1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach – 2:49
  2. "He's Funny That Way" (Richard Whiting, Neil Moret) – 3:11
  3. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
  4. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 3:00
  5. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 3:14
  6. "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) – 2:27

Personnel

The personnel of the original 10"LP are from two different recording dates, with different musicians. The 12" LP adds one track from each of the two sessions, as well as three tracks from a 1954 session.

April, 1952 Personnel (exact date unknown)
(Evening tracks B3-4; Recital tracks A1-A3):
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Flip Phillips - Tenor Saxophone
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Alvin Stoller - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass


July 27, 1952 Personnel
(Evening tracks A1-B2; Recital tracks A4-6, B1-3):
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Joe Newman - Trumpet
Paul Quinichette - Tenor Saxophone
Oscar Peterson - Piano (Organ on Yesterdays)
Freddie Green - Guitar
Gus Johnson - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass


April 14, 1954 Recordings
(Recital tracks B4-6)
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Herb Ellis - Guitar
Ed Shaughnessy - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass

Songs

1Stormy Weather3:41
2Lover Come Back to Me3:36
3My Man2:37

References

An Evening with Billie Holiday Wikipedia
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