lady day

• 180g Vinyl Analogue • Mono • Limited EditionRemastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London. This collection of classic jazz interpretations by Billie Holiday features all-star accompaniments from various sessions from 1935 to 1937. Tracks 5 & 6 on side A and tracks 4 & 5 on side B were taken from Billie's first and fifth sessions under her own name. "When planning this album, I had a hellish time trying to choose what I thought were the absolute cream of Billie Holiday. In the course of this wrestling, it struck me that not only were Billie's vocals incredibly perfect, but that I could not remember a single instance of anyone playing a bad solo or even a bad phrase among the hundred or more performances I had to choose from in the golden period of her work. Checking over records (which was almost unnecessary, because I could still remember them almost note for note) was a rather beautiful and somewhat shattering experience. Jazz, a product of so many things - musical evolution, the social scene of a particular time, the economic atmosphere of the moment, what somebody had for breakfast that day - and none of those things will ever come together again as they did when these records were made." - Excerpt from George Avakian's liner notes Track listing: Side A: 1. Miss Brown To You 2. I Wished On the Moon 3. What A Little Moonlight Can Do 4. If You Were Mine 5. Summertime 6. Billie's Blues Side B: 1. I Must Have That Man! 2. Foolin' Myself 3. Easy Living 4. Me, Myself and I 5. A Sailboat In the Moonlight 6. I Cried For You