Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday - Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959 (2007) 5CD Box Set  Music

Posted by Designol at April 16, 2024
Billie Holiday - Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959 (2007) 5CD Box Set

Billie Holiday - Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959 (2007) 5CD Box Set
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 834 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 751 Mb | Scans ~ 63 Mb
Vocal Jazz, Swing, Standards, Vocal Pop | Label: ESP Disk | # ESP 4039 | Time: 05:28:24

These rare treasures take you all across Billie's career-from '35, the year she debuted at the Apollo and first charted, to '59, the year she died. The stunning early performances include a 20-year-old Billie with Ellington in '35 and a 1937 radio broadcast from the Savoy Hotel in NY with the Basie Orchestra; you'll also hear rare rehearsal tapes, her Monterey '58 performance, songs on The Eddie Condon Show, The Tonight Show, The Steve Allen Show, an impromptu recording of Billie and friends singing My Yiddish Mamma, and more with Art Tatum, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Hodges, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and more! Includes 129 tracks: Swing Brother Swing; Fine and Mellow; I'll Get By; Billie's Blues; All of Me; Lover Man; Them There Eyes; You're My Thrill; I Cover the Waterfront; Porgy; Tenderly; God Bless the Child; My Man; Moanin' Low; Ghost of a Chance, and more.
Billie Holiday - Solitude (1956/2015) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

Billie Holiday - Solitude (1956/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 38:40 minutes | 1,54 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 38:40 minutes | 423 MB
Studio Mono Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Most of the songs on this session were originally released on 10-inch vinyl in 1952 under the title "Billie Holiday Sings"; four additional tunes were added to this 1956 LP version, now renamed "Solitude". Holiday is backed by some impressive musicians including Oscar Peterson on piano, Ray Brown on double bass, Barney Kessel on guitar and drummer Alvin Stoller on these standards, among them "Blue Moon" and "I Only Have Eyes For You".
Billie Holiday - The Rough Guide to Billie Holiday (Birth Of A Legend) (2019)

Billie Holiday - The Rough Guide to Billie Holiday (Birth Of A Legend) (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 163 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 180 Mb | 01:16:43
Vocal Jazz, Swing | Label: Music Rough Guides, World Music Network

Arguably the most iconic and lastingly influential jazz singer of all time, Billie Holiday expressed an incredible depth of emotion that spoke of hard times and injustice as well as triumph. With accompaniment by some of the finest bands of the era, these classic tracks were recorded during her creative heyday when her voice was at its potent best.
Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues: Billie Holiday Story Volume 4 [Recorded 1955-1956] (1995) (Re-up)

Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues: Billie Holiday Story Volume 4 [Recorded 1955-1956] (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 287 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 182 MB | Covers - 34 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (314 521 429-2)

Taken from a couple of sessions taped during 1955-1956, Lady Sings the Blues, Vol. 4 finds Holiday in top form and backed by the sympathetic likes of tenor saxophonists Budd Johnson and Paul Quinichette, trumpeter Charlie Shavers, pianist Wynton Kelly, and guitarist Billy Bauer. And while these autumnal sides bear some of the frayed vocal moments often heard on Holiday's '50s Verve sides, the majority here still ranks with her best material. This is especially true of the cuts from a June 1956 date, which produced unparalleled versions of "No Good Man," "Some Other Spring," and "Lady Sings the Blues." See why many fans prefer the "worn out" Holiday heard here to the more chipper singer featured on those classic Columbia records from the '30s.

Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra - 1939-1940 (1991) (Re-up)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 11, 2022
Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra - 1939-1940 (1991) (Re-up)

Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra - 1939-1940 (1991)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 286 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 156 MB | Covers - 7 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Classics Records (CLASSICS 601)

This volume of the Classics Chronological series places Billie Holiday's music in historical context to an unusual degree, as her recordings for the Columbia and Commodore labels have until now been reissued separately because of copyright and catalog ownership. The songs parceled together here were recorded at a crossroads in Holiday's career. The setting for the first - in what would constitute great changes in her life and music - was Barney Josephson's Café Society Downtown. Located at 2 Sheridan Square, this was Manhattan's first fully integrated nightclub. Its clientele included a number of politically progressive intellectuals and social activists. When she first appeared at the club on December 30, 1938, Billie Holiday was known as a spunky vocalist who presented lively renditions of pop and jazz standards in what was considered an unusual yet accessible style…
Billie Holiday - At Carnegie Hall: The Billie Holiday Story Volume 6 [Recorded 1956] (1995) (Re-up)

Billie Holiday - At Carnegie Hall: The Billie Holiday Story Volume 6 [Recorded 1956] (1995)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 153 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 105 MB | Covers - 129 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (314 527 777-2)

Like a modern day rock star, Holiday's troubles with drugs, the law, and abusive men were almost considered part of what made her art work so well. It's an insulting idea, of course - and one that puts the audience in the position of voyeurs, or worse. The inclusion of Holiday's own tunes like "Don't Explain" and signature pieces like "Ain't Nobody's Business," combined with readings from her recent autobiography during the course of this concert, play to the more maudlin aspects of the singer's life. Holiday is painted as a woman who put up with hard times and abuse for sake of the shreds of love her men would hand her. Yet her exuberance on the uptempo, swinging material is full of attitude and charm. The life and vitality she brings to those tunes is just as real as her much remarked-upon gloomy side. Ultimately, it's up to the listener to decide what to hear as journalism and what to take as artistic interpretation.
Billie Holiday - Music For Torching: The Billie Holiday Story Volume 5 [Recorded 1955] (1995) (Re-up)

Billie Holiday - Music For Torching: The Billie Holiday Story Volume 5 [Recorded 1955] (1995)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 320 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 181 MB | Covers - 122 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (527 455-2)

The overall feeling on this 1955 recording, which was originally titled Velvet Mood, is strictly after-hours: the party is long over but a few close friends remain for nightcaps and, is that the sun peeking through the windowà? With slow tempo songs outnumbering not-so-slow songs fourteen to four, producer Norman Granz may or may not have had concept album on his mind. Whatever the case, he brought together a brilliant cross-section of cats who evidently put Billie entirely at ease and in the mood - no small feat when one considers her spotty later recordings.
Lady Day's renderings here of "It Had to Be You" and "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" are timeless gems…
Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin (1958) [Sony Mastersound, 24 KT Gold CD, 1995] (Re-up)

Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin (1958) [Sony Mastersound, 24 KT Gold CD, 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 244 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 106 MB | Covers - 188 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Columbia (CK 53814)

This was Billie Holiday's penultimate album, recorded when her body was telling her enough was enough. During the sessions with arranger Ray Ellis she was drinking vodka neat, as if it were tap water. Despite her ravaged voice (the sweetness had long gone), she was still an incredible singer. The feeling and tension she manages to put into almost every track set this album as one of her finest achievements. "You've Changed" and "I Get Along Without You Very Well" are high art performances from the singer who saw life from the bottom up.

Billie Holiday - You Go To My Head [Recorded 1938-1949] (2002)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 2, 2022
Billie Holiday - You Go To My Head [Recorded 1938-1949] (2002)

Billie Holiday - You Go To My Head [Recorded 1938-1949] (2002)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 314 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 150 MB | Covers - 144 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Dreyfus Jazz (FDM 36742-2)

Nowadays, the majority of those with two ears and a heart recognise her magnitude, whatever their usual musical preferences may be. This unanimity undoubtedly stems from the fact that Billie's voice reaches our greatest depths. Nobody has been troubled by her range, or by limited technical means the singer was offered, although she never needed anything other than her voice to shake the entire planet. Perhaps because Billie sang simply of love and love's desillusions, and the listeners are moved even without particularly grasping the textes. However, what we may hear is the result of a double paradow: vocal mastery, the placing of each syllabe, the perfect expression of each word confirms a tremendous virtuosity, the fruit of long experience; the emphasis put on the songs' lyrics, not often despairing all considered, come more from the despair of the interpreter than their actual contents…

Billie Holiday - Don't Explain (1982/2023)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at March 17, 2023
Billie Holiday - Don't Explain (1982/2023)

Billie Holiday - Don't Explain (1982/2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 512 MB | Cover | 01:55:33 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 267 MB
Vocal Jazz | Label: Audio Fidelity

Written with Arthur Herzog Jr. it is said that Billie’s lyric was inspired on real-life heartache, when her husband, Jimmy Monroe, came home one night with lipstick traces on his collar. Released in 1945, it would become one of her best known tunes.