Billie Holiday The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live Vinyl LP 2023

Description

Tracklist:

1. Oh, What A Little Moonlight Can Do
2. I Cover The Waterfront
3. Fine And Mellow
4. I Cried For You
5. My Man
6. Reading From Lady Sings The Blues
7. I’ll Be Seeing You
8. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
9. Yesterdays
10. Don’t Explain
11. Reading From Lady Sings The Blues
12. Body And Soul
13. Billie’s Blues
14. Reading From Lady Sings The Blues
15. Travelin Light With Reading
16. It Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
17. Lady Sings The Blues
18. Reading From Lady Sings The Blues

The live recordings included here are among the very best from Billie Holiday’s final years. Part of the motivation behind the 1956 Carnegie Hall concert was to promote Billie’s autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. The music was attuned entirely to Billie’s character part, reinforced by readings from her book by Gilbert Millstein. Although recorded in 1956, the LP was only issued in 1961, almost two years after Billie’s passing on July 17, 1959, at the age of 44.