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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)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
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)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

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.[5]

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).[6] 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

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1953 10" LP, An Evening with Billie Holiday

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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 Pollock, 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

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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

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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):


July 27, 1952 Personnel
(Evening tracks A1-B2; Recital tracks A4-6, B1-3):


April 14, 1954 Recordings
(Recital tracks B4-6)

References

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  1. ^ An Evening with Billie Holiday at Allmusic
  2. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 322. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ A Recital by Billie Holiday at Allmusic
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin Books. p. 716. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ An Evening with Billie Holiday, Discogs, accessed Dec 21, 2015
  6. ^ A Recital by Billie Holiday, Discogs, accessed Dec 21, 2015
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