The Quintessential Billie Holiday Volume 1, 1933-1935

Very smart clean vinyl with a good cover.

After years of reissuing Billie Holiday's recordings in piecemeal fashion, Columbia finally got it right with this  Quintessential series. All of Lady Day's 1933-1942 studio recordings (although without the alternate takes) receive the treatment they deserve in this program. Vol. 1 has Holiday's first two tentative performances from 1933 along with her initial recordings with Teddy Wilson's all-star bands. High points include "I Wished on the Moon," "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," "Miss Brown to You," and "Twenty-Four Hours a Day