Billie Holiday Body And Soul

This live concert album, recorded at two packed shows at Carnegie Hall in November 1956, contains the biographical narration that accompanied the music during the concerts, recited by Gilbert Millstein of The New York Times. Billie Holiday is backed by the Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring guitarist Kenny Burrell and two horn sections including Coleman Hawkins and Al Cohn on tenor sax and Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton on trumpet.

Renowned Canadian multi-genre chanteuse Molly Johnson sixth studio album, "Because Of Billie", is a tribute to Billie Holiday. Recorded in Toronto with producers John Bailey and Mike Downes, Johnson wanted to infuse Because Of Billie with her idol’s spirit, preparing the songs emotionally and technically so many could be recorded in one take. Billie Holiday’s journey inspires Johnson not only as an artist, but as a model citizen. “Billie and her generation were the civil rights movement,” Johnson notes. “Her generation sacrificed for my privilege and I am honour-bound to them. I love history. I love to look back while pushing forward”.

This historic compilation includes Billie Holiday's earliest live recordings from performances in 1945 and 1946 at Carnegie Hall and the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Holiday sings some of her most popular songs, including the provocative Strange Fruit as well as Travelin' Light and Billie's Blues to appreciative audiences on both coasts. Never again will Billie sound this wonderful … this all happened on a night when she had everything and if you don't find this LP to be one of the most emotional half hours you've ever spent, there's something wrong … certainly one of the outstanding records in years.

Susana Ruiz releases new album Billie Sings Soul, dedicated entirely to the legacy of Billie Holiday but with her own arrangements with Jacob Sureda.

After receiving worldwide praise and a GRAMMY for Best Jazz Vocal Album for her 2011 disc, "The Mosaic Project", drummer extraordinaire Terri Lyne Carrington releases its hotly anticipated follow-up, "The Mosaic Project: Love And Soul". Like its predecessor, "The Mosaic Project: Love And Soul" presents Carrington leading a rotating cast of superb female instrumentalists and vocalists that includes Oleta Adams, Natalie Cole, Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, Chaka Khan, Chanté Moore, Valerie Simpson, Nancy Wilson, Jaguar Wright and Lizz Wright, as well as saxophonist Tia Fuller, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen; bassists Meshell Ndegoecello and Linda Oh; and keyboardists Geri Allen, Patrice Rushen and Rachel Z.

Claus Ogerman was a German arranger, conductor, and composer best known for his work with Billie Holiday, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Frank Sinatra, and Diana Krall. Also he's charted with his own Orchestra in the middle of 60s.

Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport - "Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday in Newport") is a joint live album by Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, released on the Verve Records label in 1958 under the studio number MGV-8234. The recordings were made on July 4, 5 and 6, 1957 at the Newport Jazz Festival.