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Artist: Billie Holiday |Label: DOL |Format: LP |Genre: Jazz | Album Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed
Billie Holiday
Songs for Distingue Lovers
DOL 1252FC – import LP on limited ORANGE colored vinyl
“Songs for Distingu Lovers” was one of the numerous albums Billie Holiday recorded in the 1950s, during her contract with jazz producer Norman Granz. The jazz impresario surrounded the singer with important instrumentalists, such as Ben Webster and Harry Sweets Edison, who had both worked with the singer during the 1930s and 1940s Edison as a member of the Count Basie Orchestra during Holidays brief stint as the bands female vocalist, and Webster from the recordings under her own name for Vocalion Records and Okeh Records. Granz also provided her with a repertoire including some of the best pieces from the Great American Songbook.
Personnel:
BIllie Holiday, vocals
Ben Webster, Tenor Sax
Harry “Sweets” Edison, trumpet
Jimmy Rowles, piano
Barney Kessel, guitar
Red Mitchell, bass
Alvin Stoller or Larry Bunker, drums
All Tracks recorded in Hollywood, California, January 1957.
Tracks:
Day In, Day Out
A Foggy Day
Stars Fell On Alabama
One For My Baby (and One More For the Road)
Just One of Those Things
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
I Wished On the Moon
They Can’t Take That Away From Me
Body and Soul
Moonlight in Vermont
NEW SEALED Pressing on import 180g Vinyl w/ deluxe gatefold jacket
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