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ビリー・ホリデイ
ビリー・ホリデイ(Billie Holiday, 1915年4月7日 - 1959年7月17日)はアメリカ合衆国の黒人女性ジャズ歌手。「レディ・デイ」の呼称で知られる。サラ・ヴォーンやエラ・フィッツジェラルドと並んで、ジャズ史上最高の歌手の一人に数えられる。彼女の生涯に於いて代表的なレパートリーであった「Strange Fruit (奇妙な果実) 」や「God Bless' the Child (神よめぐみを)」、「I Love You, Porgy (アイ・ラブ ・ ユー、ポーギー) 」、「Fine and Mellow (ファイン・アンド・メロウ) 」は、後年、多くのミュージシャンに取り上げられるジャズ・ヴォーカルの古典となった。(Wikipedia)- Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years (1946-59)
- Lady Sings the Blues (1954-56)
- Lady In Satin (1958)
Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
Disk 1:
- Body and Soul (Eyton/Green/Heyman/Sour) 3:24
- Strange Fruit (Allan/Marks) 3:01
- Trav'lin' Light (Mercer/Young) 3:28
- All of Me (Marks/Simons) 1:55
- (There Is) No Greater Love (Jones/Symes) 2:34
- I Cover the Waterfront (Green/Heyman) 2:58
- These Foolish Things (Marvell/Strachey/Walker) 3:35
- Tenderly (Gross/Lawrence) 3:25
- Autumn in New York (Duke) 3:42
- My Man (Charles/Pollack/Williametz/Yvain) 2:39
- Stormy Weather (Arlen/Koehler) 3:43
- Yesterdays (Kern/Harbach) 2:50
- (I Got a Man, Crazy for Me) He's Funny That Way (Richard A. Whiting / Neil Moret) 2:56
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do (Woods) 3:12
- I Cried for You (Now It's Your Turn to Cry Over Me) (Arnheim/Freed/Lyman) 2:30
- Too Marvelous for Words (Mercer/Whiting) 2:13
- I Wished on the Moon (Parker/Ranger) 6:49
- I Don't Want to Cry Anymore (Schertzinger) 3:55
- Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington/Irving Gordon/Mills) 5:35
Disk 2:
- Nice Work If You Can Get It (Gershwin/Gershwin) 3:51
- Come Rain or Come Shine (Arlen/Mercer) 4:23
- What's New? (Burke/Haggart) 4:17
- God Bless the Child (Herzog/Holiday) 3:59
- Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (Ellington/Russell) 4:14 (Verve MGV 8329)
- April in Paris (Duke/Harburg) 2:38
- Lady Sings the Blues (Holiday/Nichols) 2:38 (Verve 8410)
- Don't Explain (Herzog/Holiday) 3:14
- Fine and Mellow [Live] (Holiday) 3:14
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Hart/Rodgers) 6:01 (Verve MGV 8257)
- Stars Fell on Alabama (Parish/Perkins) 4:30
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) (Arlen/Mercer) 5:42
- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Razaf/Redman) 5:37 (Verve MGV 8197)
- Lover Man (Davis/Ramirez/Sherman) 3:05
- All the Way (Cahn/VanHeusen) 3:26 (MGM E3764)
- Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Bloom/Koehler) 3:10
1-3: Billie Holiday and her Orchestra; 23-aug-55 Los Angeles, Radio Recorders studio / 4: Billie Holiday with Tony Scott and his Orchestra; 07-jun-56 New York City, Fine Sound Studios / 5-6: Billie Holiday recording unit; 14, 18-aug-56 Los Angeles, Radio Recorders studio / 7-9: Chico Hamilton Quintet; 10-nov-56 New York City, Carnegie Hall / 10-13: Billie Holiday recording unit; 04, 08, 09-jan-57 Los Angeles, Capitol Studios / 14: Seven Ages of Jazz Festival Concert; 26-sep-58 Wallingford (Connecticut), Oakdale Musical / 15-16: Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis & his Orchestra; 03-mrt-59 New York City, Metropolitan Recording Studio /
Lady Sings the Blues
- Lady sings the blues (Holiday/Nichols) 3:46
- Trav'lin' light (Mercer/Young) 3:10
- I must have that man (Fields/McHugh) 3:06
- Some other spring (Wilson/Herzog) 3:39
- Strange fruit (Allan/Marks) 3:04
- No good man (Fisher/GAllop/Higginbotham) 3:23
- God bless the child (Herzog/Holiday) 3:59
- Good morning heartache (Drake/Fisher/Higginbotham) 3:31
- Love me or leave me (Donaldson/Kahn) 2:35
- Too marvelous for words (Mercer/Whiting) 2:13
- Willow weep for me (Ronell) 2:56
- I thought about you (Mercer/VanHeusen) 2:47
- P.s. I love you (Jenkins/Mercer) 3:37
- Softly (Beal/Greene) 2:56
- Stormy blues (Holiday) 3:30
Lady In Satin
- I'm a fool to want you (J. Wolf / Herron / Sinatra) 3:25
- For heaven's sake (Don Meyer / Elsie Bretton / Sherman Edwards) 3:29
- You don't know what love is (Don Raye / Gene DePaul) 3:51
- I get along without you very well (Carmichael) 3:01
- For all we know (Sam M. Lewis / J. Fred Coots) 2:55
- Violets for your furs (Tom Adair / Matt Dennis) 3:26
- You've changed (Bill Carey / Carl Fischer) 3:20
- Easy to remember (Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers) 4:03
- But beautiful (Johnny Burke / James van Heusen) 4:32
- Glad to be unhappy (Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers) 4:09
- I'll be around (Alex Wilder) 3:26
- The end of a love affair (Edward C. Redding) 4:52