Billie Holiday Volume 2 - Lady Day | SAGA RECORDS 6918 Immortal Sessions

Billie Holiday Volume 2 - Lady Day | SAGA RECORDS 6918 Immortal Sessions - The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia

SIDE ONE

THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME/SWING, BROTHER, SWING

Billie Holiday (vocal) with:—Count Basie and his Orchestra: Ed Lewis, Bobby Moore, Buck Clayton (trumpets); Dan Minor, George Hunt (trombones); Earl Warren, Jack Washington, Herschel Evans, Lester Young (saxes); Count Basie (piano); Freddie Greene (guitar); Walter Page (bass); Jo Jones (drums). Radio broadcast, June 30,1937.

I CANT GET STARTED

As   above,  but  Benny  Morton   (trombone) replaces Hunt, and add Eddie Durham (trombone, guitar). Radio broadcast, November 3,1937.

DO NOTHING TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME

Roy Eldridge (trumpet); Jack Teagarden (trombone) ; Barney Bigard (clarinet); Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax); Art Tatum (piano); Al Casey (guitar); Oscar Pettiford (bass); Sid Catlett (drums). Recorded at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, January 26,1944.

I LOVE MY MAN ('BILLIE'S BLUES')

Same as 'Do nothing' above, but with Louis Armstrong (trumpet).

SIDE TWO

I COVER THE WATERFRONT

Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: Shelton Hemphill, Taft Jordan, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance (trumpets); Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown, Claude Jones (trombones); Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet); Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwicke (altos); Al Sears (tenor); Harry Carney (baritone); Duke Ellington (piano); Fred Guy (guitar); Junior Raglin (bass); Sonny Greer (drums). Recorded in Los Angeles, January 17, 1945.

THE MAN I LOVE

Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Barnet (tenors); Teddy Wilson (piano); guitar, bass and drums: unknown. Recorded in New York, December 19,1940.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS7/FAREWELL TO STORYVILLE

Louis Armstrong (trumpet); Edward Kid Ory (trombone); Barney Bigard (clarinet); Charlie Bea! (piano); Red Callender (bass); Zutty Singleton (drums). Prob. sound-track from film "New Orleans", 1946.

THE BLUES ARE BREWING

Louis Armstrong (trumpet) and Woody Herman Orchestra, personnel unknown. Prob. sound-track as above, 1946.