Ladylove

by Billie Holiday

Overview

Most of this excellent CD features one of Billie Holiday's finest concert recordings of the 1950s. Recorded in Europe before an admiring audience, this enjoyable set finds Lady Day performing seven of her standards with her trio and joining in for jam session versions of "Billie's Blues" and "Lover Come Back to Me" with an all-star group starring clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, vibraphonist Red Norvo and guitarist Jimmy Raney. These performances (which find Holiday in stronger voice than on her studio recordings of the period) have also been included in Verve's massive CD box set. This program concludes with Holiday's four rare sides for Aladdin in 1951 (between her Decca and Verve periods) which are highlighted by two blues and "Detour Ahead," and her 1942 studio recording of "Trav'lin' Light" with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	12/01/2023
Label:	Universal
UPC:	4988031592618
Rank:	77643

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Billie Holiday   Primary Artist,Vocals
Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
Red Mitchell   Guest Artist,Bass,Bass (Vocal)
Paul Whiteman   Guest Artist
Red Norvo   Guest Artist,Vibraphone
Buddy DeFranco   Guest Artist,Clarinet
Sonny Clark   Guest Artist,Piano
Carl Drinkard   Piano
Jimmy Raney   Guitar
Jimmy Clark   Guitar
Beryl Booker   Piano
Elaine Leighton   Drums

Technical Credits

Jim Mundy   Composer
Frank Messner   Composer
John Freigo   Composer
Seymour B. Simons   Composer
Heywood   Composer
John Van Frigo   Composer
Seymour Simons   Composer
Andy Razaf   Composer
Jimmy Mundy   Composer
Billie Holiday   Composer
Bing Crosby   Composer
Fats Waller   Composer
Doris Tauber   Composer
John W. Green   Composer
Leonard Feather   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Maceo Pinkard   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Ron McMaster   Engineer,Producer,Mastering Engineer
Ned Washington   Composer
Michael Cuscuna   Producer
Mesner   Composer
William Tracey   Composer
Abe Lyman   Composer
Arthur Freed   Composer
Gerald Marks   Composer
Harry Woods   Composer
Herb Ellis   Composer
Trummy Young   Composer
Sigmund Romberg   Composer
Jacques Charles   Composer
Frank Haywood   Composer
Edward Heyman   Composer
Channing Pollack   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Lou Carter   Composer
Johnny Green   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Johnny Frigo   Composer
Maurice Yvain   Composer
Mick Tucker   Composer
Gus Arnheim   Composer
Gordon Waller   Composer
Albert Willemetz   Composer
Victor Young   Composer
M. Tucker   Composer
Ravon Darnell   Composer
Jimmy Munday   Recording Arranger
Alan Darnell   Composer