Billie Holiday - Commodore Master Takes (1LP Black)

music on vinyl

£29.70

Format: LP Black
Catalogue No.: MOVLP3819
Barcode: 0600753999363
Release Date: 18 Oct 2024
Genre: Jazz

180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
INCLUDES INSERT
AMAZING OVERVIEW OF BILLIE HOLIDAY’S LEGENDARY SESSIONS AT COMMODORE RECORDS
FEATURING CLASSICS SUCH AS “STRANGE FRUIT”, “I’LL BE SEEING YOU” AND “AS TIME GOES BY”

The Commodore Master Takes offers an amazing overview of Billie Holiday’s legendary Commodore sessions. These sessions, recorded between 1939 and 1944, are considered by many to be Holiday’s finest recordings. The album opens with the impressive “Strange Fruit”, which was considered too controversial for its time by other labels and became part of these sessions. The album also includes classics such as “I’ll Be Seeing You” and “As Time Goes By”.

SIDE A
1. Strange Fruit
2. Yesterdays
3. Fine And Mellow
4. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
5. How Am I To Know?
6. My Old Flame
7. I’ll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
8. I Cover The Waterfront

SIDE B
1. I’ll Be Seeing You
2. I’m Yours
3. Embraceable You
4. As Time Goes By
5. He’s Funny That Way
6. Lover, Come Back To Me
7. Billie’s Blues
8. On The Sunny Side Of The Street