Webster, Ben
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1	Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
2	Cheek To Cheek
3	Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
4	Speak Low
5	We'll Be Together Again
6	All Or Nothing At All
7	Sophisticated Lady
8	April In Paris
9	I Wished On The Moon
10	Moonlight In Vermont
11	A Foggy Day
12	Didn't KNow What Time It Was
13	Just One Of Those Things
14	Comes Love (Alternative Take)
15	Comes Love

Disc: 2

1	Day In, Day Out
2	Darn That Dream
3	But Not For Me
4	Body & Soul
5	Just Friends (Instrumental)
6	Stars Fell On Alabama
7	Say It Isn't So
8	Love Is Here To Stay
9	One For My Baby (& One More For The Road)
10	They Can't Take That From Me
11	Embraceable You
12	Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
13	Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?

Product details

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.73 x 0.41 x 4.87 inches; 4 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Verve
SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 4, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Verve
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00000470G
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

Best Sellers Rank: #219,924 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #412 in Vocal Blues
- #658 in Classic Broadway Vocalists
- #981 in Traditional Blues (CDs & Vinyl)

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Just Jerry

An Older Billie Is Still Billie

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2023

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Ok, her voice sounds weak and tired. But she has lived a lot and been abused a lot. frequently by her own Drug Usage. But no-one can sell a song like Billie and especially with the Top Jazz Musicians backing her and the Best Fidelity and Mixing of the time period. She did her own Arranging because she is Billie. Although she passed away a short time after these Sessions, these are my very favorite Recordings of her!

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Mike Burns

THIS IS THE ONE..........

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2001

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OK, let me start by saying Billie Holiday was never a favorite of mine. If I had to pick a favorite 'blues singer' it would have been Dinah Washington....the "Queen" of the Blues! So how did I fall in love with Billie's "All or Nothing At All' album? Maybe it was that portrait on the cover...an artist's interpretation of 'pain' or 'soul' or 'suffering.' And then I heard the songs.....those particular songs, delivered by Billie's rough, jagged, tortured voice. Let's see, I graduated from high school in 1961 (yeah, I'm old) and I know I had the album before then. Just a kid, but felt something very ADULT in 'Ill Wind,' ''We'll Be Together Again,' 'Sophisticated Lady,' and 'Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me.' Maybe those lyrics, her voice, were something I shouldn't even have been experiencing, and certainly not understanding, at that young age. But I did. They've combined this classic album with another that included 'Body and Soul, 'One For My Baby and One More For the Road,' and 'Embraceable You.' For me, this is the perfect Holiday CD. If you want her actual 'classics' such as 'God Bless The Child,' try (seriously) Liza Minnelli's version, because it was a far more fitting, appropriate song for Liza to sing. THIS is the classic Billie Holiday CD for me......BUY IT!

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Penumbra

Breathtaking music

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2007

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This is the album that turned me into a Billie Holiday fan. Part of what makes Lady Day accessible on this CD is that you can finally hear her voice as she tells you the stories behind these songs, without the distractions on some of the technically inferior older recordings.

The songs, which represent the cream of the 20th century American songbook, were recorded over seven sessions; two in 1956 and five in January 1957. So, unlike some of her music that's available from the 1930's, these were recorded in stereo and the annoying hisses and pops are gone. Yes, this was late in her career but she is still strong!

She's working with some other legendary musicians here, too. Ben Webster on the saxophone is also a master at telling a story through music. Harry "Sweets" Edison on the trumpet and Jimmy Rowles on piano are outstanding.

Although I had always heard she was phenomenal, I never quite "got it" until I heard "All or Nothing At All." Now I understand why Sinatra spent hours listening to her in clubs to learn how to phrase a song.

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Jack

Voice like no other

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2011

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After hearing "Ill Wind" and "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" in an internet video, I went on a search for the artist; that's how I found Billie Holiday. I had to listen to samplings of those same songs by many artists in my search, and I found nobody else who delivers those songs with the same golden tone as Lady Day.

On a side note, if you're listening to this CD in Windows Media Player, your cheating yourself if you let WMP get away with its one-size-fits-all equalizer settings. Be sure to set it to "jazz" if not a custom setting.

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Nicholas Alesso

Billie at her best.....

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2019

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Probably the finest Billie Holliday recordings of all time. And I mean it.

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ancientaliens

Five stars!

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2015

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Five stars'!Like this collection very much.

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2015

heartbreaking

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2010

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Love the CD and I didn't have to wait long to receive it. Great price too.

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moja

グッド

Reviewed in Japan on June 13, 2023

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レアな品物でした。入手できてよかったです。

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freddiefreejazz

quintessence...

Reviewed in France on March 18, 2020

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Comme ça fait du bien de réécouter cette double galette. En rupture de stock ? Pas de problème, on peut la retrouver ailleurs, à des prix intéressants et disons plus abordables (notamment dans ce coffret 5 CD Billie Holiday). Pour ma part, j'ai préféré cette édition ci-présente (comprenant trois LP, Body And Soul, Songs For Distingué Lovers et All or Nothing At All, tous gravés en 1957). On rappellera seulement que pour le coffret cité ci-dessus, point de notes de livret (ou alors, celles-ci sont illisibles). Ici, outre une sonorité exemplaire, les photos et les textes sont une manne pour l'amateur de jazz. 28 titres et plus de 2 heures de musique atemporelle. Je sais, tous ces mots ne veulent rien dire. Mais quand on considère l'oeuvre de Lady Day, que ce soit dans les années 30, 40 ou 50, pour moi, il n'y a rien à jeter (tout au plus, préfèrera-t-on telle période plutôt que telle autre). Ce corpus maintes fois commenté est un exemple de raffinement (voir le commentaire complet de Luc ci-dessous). Pas besoin d'être un spécialiste du jazz vocal pour apprécier. Le répertoire est ici tout simplement inoubliable. Et quand on se repasse la galette en boucle, un sentiment de bien-être ineffable vous envahit. Non, les clichés et les stéréotypes concernant Lady Day n'ont pas lieu d'être. Vous pensez que vous serez déprimés après écoute ? Que dalle. C'est tout le contraire. Jamais une chanteuse de jazz ne m'avait à ce point subjugué de par son humanité, de par aussi l'authenticité de son expression artistique qui sort des tripes, qui sort de l'âme. Et même si parfois les soufflants (Ben Webster et surtout le trompettiste Harry Sweets Edison) sont un peu trop envahissants (notamment lors de leurs solos respectifs), c'est en trio ou en duo (avec le pianiste Oscar Peterson) que la belle prend de la hauteur et une dimension inédite. A réserver à tous les amoureux de la Vie et de l'Art en général.

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Protozoo

MARAVILLOSO

Reviewed in Spain on October 13, 2013

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Es un recopilatorio fantástico, esencial. Todos los listos oficiales del jazz dicen que las grabaciones esenciales de Billie son las de Columbia de la década de 1930. Vale, pero hay un problema: la calidad del sonido. Yo no soy un pirado del sonido, pero no me gustan las grabaciones donde no se oye casi nada; aunque esas no son tan malas, sigue notándose de cuándo son. Así que esas grabaciones serán esenciales... pero yo prefiero MIL VECES las de Verve de los 50s. Y para mi gusto, este recopilatorio recoge los tres discos esenciales de la época, con un sonido estéreo fantástico, con una gran banda y con una Billie que, aunque dejara atrás sus mejores ańos, seguía siendo única. ¿Que no son las canciones súper-dolientes y desgarradoras que cantó en otras ocasiones? Vale, pero me reconcilian con la vida.
Para mí gusto, el mejor disco del jazz vocal.

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Piergiorgio Morea

Tutti.

Reviewed in Italy on March 4, 2019

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Ottimo.

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