Product Code: | 7464 40646 1 |
Artist: | Billie Holiday |
Origin: | USA |
Label: | Columbia (1987) |
Format: | LP |
Availability: | Enquire Now |
Condition: |
Cover: VG+
Record: VG+
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Genre: | Jazz U |
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 thisĀ 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