An Evening with Billie Holiday

An Evening with Billie Holiday (MG C-144) is the second 10-inch LP studio album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released by Clef Records in 1953.[3]

An Evening with Billie Holiday
Studio album by
Billie Holiday
ReleasedMarch 1953
RecordedApril 1952, July 27, 1952
GenreJazz
Length23: 45
LabelClef (Verve)
ProducerNorman Granz
Billie Holiday chronology
Billie Holiday Sings
(1952)		 An Evening with Billie Holiday
(1953)		 Billie Holiday
(1954)
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SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
A Recital by Billie Holiday
Compilation album by
Billie Holiday
Released1956
RecordedApril 1952, July 27, 1952, April 14, 1954
GenreVocal jazz
Length36:52
LabelClef (Verve Records)
ProducerNorman Granz
Billie Holiday chronology
A Recital by Billie Holiday
(1956)		 Solitude
(1956)
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In 1956, when the 10-inch format was phased out, the album was reissued by Clef with the same artwork, and seven of the eight tracks, as a 12-inch LP called A Recital by Billie Holiday (MG C-686).[4] The track "Tenderly", was moved to another 12-inch compilation called Solitude. Five additional tracks were added that had been previously released on her third 10-inch LP, simply titled Billie Holiday.

Track listing

1953 10" LP, An Evening with Billie Holiday
A side
  1. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:41
  2. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:36
  3. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:37
  4. "He's Funny That Way" (Richard Whiting, Neil Moret) – 3:11
B side
  1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach – 2:49
  2. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:23
  3. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
  4. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 2:34

1956 12" LP, A Recital By Billie Holiday
A side
  1. "If the Moon Turns Green" (George Cates, Bernie Hanighen) – 2:46
  2. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 2:34
  3. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 3:43
  4. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:37
  5. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:36
  6. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:41
B side
  1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach – 2:49
  2. "He's Funny That Way" (Richard Whiting, Neil Moret) – 3:11
  3. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
  4. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 3:00
  5. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 3:14
  6. "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) – 2:27

Personnel

The personnel of the original 10-inch "LP are from two different recording dates, with different musicians. The 12-inch LP adds one track from each of the two sessions, as well as three tracks from a 1954 session.

April 1952 Personnel (exact date unknown)
(Evening tracks B3-4; Recital tracks A1-A3):
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Flip Phillips - Tenor saxophone
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Alvin Stoller - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass


July 27, 1952 Personnel
(Evening tracks A1-B2; Recital tracks A4-6, B1-3):
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Joe Newman - Trumpet
Paul Quinichette - Tenor Saxophone
Oscar Peterson - Piano (Organ on Yesterdays)
Freddie Green - Guitar
Gus Johnson - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass


April 14, 1954 Recordings
(Recital tracks B4-6)
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Herb Ellis - Guitar
Ed Shaughnessy - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass

References
  1. An Evening with Billie Holiday at Allmusic
  2. A Recital by Billie Holiday at Allmusic
  3. An Evening with Billie Holiday, Discogs, accessed Dec 21, 2015
  4. A Recital by Billie Holiday, Discogs, accessed Dec 21, 2015
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