Discover new, exclusive liner notes from acclaimed jazz writer Brian Morton and Paris' renowned jazz magazine, specially prepared for this product.

INCLUDES 2 BONUS TRACKS

Revisionists and counter-revisionists argue back and forth, but it remains unmistakable that Billie Holidays inimitable way with a heartache song only deepened as her own life unravelled. A compilation of her dozen years recordingfor Verve was put out under the title Lady in Autumn, which is a marketing clich, but also a perfect description, for these are autumnal performances: ripe with experience, laden with anticipations of the chill of death, hanging on precariously but ready to fall.PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ

Every track is performed in an inimitable and extraordinary way, and the tragic mood never falls into the pathetic. Even today Billie continues to influence the style of innumerable singers and instrumentalists, both male and female. Whats the secret? Just the fact that Billie Holiday simply invented a way of singing: a language.- JAZZ MAGAZINE

PERSONNEL:

• BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals
• RAY ELLIS and His Orchestra

New York, February 18-20, 1958.

• (*) BONUS TRACKS (A7 & B7):
• BILLIE HOLIDAY (vc) with Harry Sweets Edison, Joe Wilder (tp), Billy Byers (tb), Al Cohn (ts), Danny Bank (bs), Hank Jones (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d), Ray Ellis (arr, cond). New York, March 11, 1959.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A:
• 01. IM A FOOL TO WANT YOU
• 02. FOR HEAVENS SAKE
• 03. YOU DONT KNOW WHAT LOVE IS
• 04. I GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU VERY WELL
• 05. FOR ALL WE KNOW
• 06. VIOLETS FOR YOUR FURS
• 07. ALL OF YOU (*)

• SIDE B:
• 01. YOUVE CHANGED
• 02. ITS EASY TO REMEMBER
• 03. BUT BEAUTIFUL
• 04. GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY
• 05. ILL BE AROUND
• 06. THE END OF A LOVE AFFAIR
• 07. THERELL BE SOME CHANGES MADE (*)