Ken Burns Jazz: The Definitive Billie Holiday

by Billie Holiday

Ken Burns Jazz: The Definitive Billie Holiday cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 7 November 2000
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:04:50
  • Community rating: 4.36/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A single-disc survey of Billie Holiday's career issued within the Ken Burns Jazz series, drawing on her Decca and Verve recordings. It presents the later, grain-textured Holiday alongside her classic period, the phrasing behind the beat that made her the defining jazz singer.

Genres

Descriptors: female-vocals, vocal, ballad, classic, ensemble

Tracklist

  1. I Cried For You (3:11)
  2. What A Little Moonlight Can Do (2:55)
  3. Me, Myself And I (2:32)
  4. Without Your Love (2:51)
  5. Strange Fruit (3:11)
  6. Yesterdays (3:23)
  7. Some Other Spring (3:01)
  8. Solitude (3:12)
  9. God Bless The Child (2:53)
  10. Gloomy Sunday (3:09)
  11. I Cover The Waterfront (2:54)
  12. Trav'lin' Light (3:15)
  13. Lover Man (3:15)
  14. Don't Explain (3:22)
  15. Good Morning, Heartache (3:06)
  16. Autumn In New York (3:41)
  17. Lady Sings The Blues (2:36)
  18. Fine And Mellow (9:06)
  19. You've Changed (3:17)

Credits

  • Billie Holiday - primary artist, vocals
  • Ben Young - compilation producer
  • Richard Seidel - compilation producer
  • Phil Bailey - liner notes

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