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Eleanora Fagan (1915 1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater

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Released
  
March 15, 2010

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

Label
  
EmArcy

Recorded
  
June 5–7, 2009

Length
  
51:47

Producer
  
Dee Dee Brdgewater

Eleanora Fagan (1915–1959): To Billie with Love From Dee Dee Bridgewater is a 2009 studio album by Dee Dee Bridgewater, recorded in tribute to Billie Holiday. It won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Bridgewater's third Grammy win in her career. Bridgewater had previously starred in Lady Day in the late 1980s, a biographical play about Holiday.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Lady Sings the Blues" (Billie Holiday, Herbie Nichols) – 3:31
  2. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 2:58
  3. "Good Morning Heartache" (Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham) – 5:10
  4. "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Roger ("Ram") Ramirez, and James Sherman) – 4:43
  5. "You've Changed" (Bill Carey, Carl Fischer) – 5:11
  6. "Miss Brown to You" (Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting, Ralph Rainger) – 2:12
  7. "Don't Explain" (Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) – 6:15
  8. "Fine and Mellow" (Holiday) – 4:55
  9. "Mother's Son-In-Law" (Alberta Nichols, Mann Holiner) – 2:46
  10. "God Bless the Child" (Holiday, Herzog) – 5:13
  11. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:33
  12. "Strange Fruit" (Abel Meeropol) – 4:16

Personnel

  • Dee Dee Bridgewater - vocals, producer, artistic director
  • James Carter - bass clarinet, alto flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Edsel Gomez - piano, arranger
  • Christian McBride - double bass
  • Lewis Nash - drums
    • Production
  • Steve Genewick - assistant engineer
  • Justin Gerrish
  • Sangwook "Sunny" Nam - assistant mastering engineer
  • Al Schmitt - engineer
  • Tulani Bridgewater Kowalski - graphic supervision
  • Dan Ouellette - liner notes
  • Edward Powell - make-up
  • Doug Sax - mastering
  • Mark Higashino - photography

    • References

    Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater Wikipedia
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