Billie Holiday at JATP

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Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic
Live album from Billie Holiday

Publication
(s)

1954

admission

February 12, 1945, June 3, 1946 and October 7, 1946

Label (s) Clef Records ( Verve Records )

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

8th

running time

23:46

production

Norman Granz

chronology
Billie Holiday

(1954)

Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic Music for torching

(1955)

Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic is a live album by the American jazz singer Billie Holiday . The tracks of the album were recorded in 1945 and 1946 at concerts of the concert series Jazz at the Philharmonic and the album was released in 1954 on the music label Clef Records .

The album

background

Jazz at the Philharmonic, or JATP for short, was the title of a series of jazz concerts, tours and recordings produced by Norman Granz between 1944 and 1983. Billie Holiday has performed several times at Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts.

Recording and publication

The songs were recorded on February 12, 1945 and October 3, 1946 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and on June 3, 1946 at Carnegie Hall , New York City. The album was originally released as a 10-inch LP in 1954. It was Billie Holidays fourth LP for the Clef Records label by Norman Granz. After the 10-inch LP format was no longer produced, the eight tracks were re-released as part of various compilations by the jazz singer.

Billie Holiday (1948)

The playlist

  • Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic (MG C-169)

page 1

  1. Body and Soul ( Edward Heyman , Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green ) - 3:24
  2. Strange Fruit ( Abel Meeropol ) - 3:01
  3. Trav'lin 'Light ( Trummy Young , Jimmy Mundy , Johnny Mercer ) - 3:28
  4. He's Funny That Way ( Richard Whiting , Neil Moret) - 2:56

Page 2

  1. The Man I Love ( George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) - 3:04
  2. Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You ( Andy Razaf , Don Redman ) - 2:19
  3. All of Me (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) - 1:55
  4. Billie's Blues ( Billie Holiday ) - 3:39

The contributors

The musicians and their instruments

February 12, 1945 (titles 1 and 2) and June 3, 1946 (titles 5 to 8)

October 7, 1946 (titles 3 and 4)

The production staff

  • Norman Granz - producer
  • David Stone Martin - artwork

The reception

The liner notes of the original LP quote a review by Down Beat from 1954, who praised the album as follows and gave it five stars out of five:

“These were recorded at a JATP concert in LA in 1946, and never again will Billie sound this wonderful. The years that have passed since then have taken their toll on the great stylist, but this all happened on a night when she had everything, and you don't find this LP to be one of the most emotional half-hours you've ever spent, there's something wrong. (...) Certainly one of the outstanding records in years. "

“It was recorded at a JATP concert in LA in 1946, and Billie never sounded so wonderful. The years that have passed since then have taken their toll on the great artist, but it all happened on a night she had it all and if you don't find this LP to be one of the most emotional half hours you've ever experienced, Is something wrong. [...] Certainly one of the excellent records in years. "

Allmusic awards 4.5 stars out of 5 for the compilation Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic , published in 1994 by Verve Records , which contains all the tracks from the original album , and says: "Holiday's voice consistently exceeds the fluctuations in sound quality to go straight into the To swirl the listener's blood. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Billie Holiday Sessions 1945. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Billie Holiday Sessions 1946. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b c d Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic. at discogs.com, accessed June 21, 2017 .
  4. ^ Billie Holidays appearances at Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Overview of publications Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ See album cover of the original LP
  7. ^ Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic. at allmusic.com, accessed on June 22, 2017 (English): "Throughout, Holiday's voice transcends fluctuations in sound quality to swirl straight into the listener's blood."