Dragon's Jazz Corner

Billie Holiday (vo)


* BILLIE HOLIDAY / 6CD・TWELVE CLASSIC ALBUMS
billie holiday(vo), etc
(1952-1958rec)/Reel To Reel/

Disk 1
1 I Only Have Eyes For You
2 You Turned The Tables On Me
3 Blue Moon
4 Solitude
5 These Foolish Things
6 You'd Be So Easy To Love
7 You Go To My Head
8 East Of The Sun
9 Stormy Weather
10 Lover Come Back To Me
11 My Man
12 He's Funny That Way
13 Yeasterdays
14 Tenderly
15 I Can't Face The Music
16 Remember

Disk 2
1 Love For Sale
2 Moonglow
3 Everything I Have Is Yours
4 If The Moon Turns Green
5 Autumn In New York
6 How Deep Is the Ocean
7 What A Little Moonlight Ca Do
8 I Cried For You
9 It Had To Be You
10 Come Rain Or Come Shine
11 I Don't Want To Cry Anymore
12 I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance
13 A Fine Romance
14 Gone With The Wind
15 I Get A Kick Out Of You
16 Isn't This A Lovely Day

Disk 3
1 Purelude To A Kiss
2 When Your Lover Has Gone
3 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
4 Nice Work If You Can Get It
5 I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
6 What's New
7 I Hadn't Anyone Till You
8 Everything I Have Is Yours
9 Lady Sings The Blues
10 Trav'lin Light
11 I Must Have That Man
12 Some Other Spring
13 Strange Fruit
14 No Good Man
15 God Bless The Child
16 Good Morning Heartache
17 Love Me Or Leave Me
18 Too Marvelous For Words
19 Willow Weep For Me
20 I Thought About You

Disk 4
1 Body And Soul
2 They Can't Take That Away From Me
3 Darn That Dream
4 Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
5 Comes Love
6 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
7 Embraceable You
8 Moonlight In Vermont
9 I Wished On The Moon
10 Ain't Misbehavin'
11 Everything Happens to Me
12 Say It Isn't So
113 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
14 Always
15 Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me

Disk 5
1 Day In - Day Out
2 A Foggy Day
3 Stars Fell on Alabama
4 One For My Baby
5 Just One Of Those Things
6 I Don't Know What time It Was
7 I'm a Fool To Want You
8 For Heaven's Sake
9 You Don't Know What Love Is
10 I Get Alpng Without You Very Well
11 For All We Know
12 Violets For Your Furs
13 You've Changed
14 It's Easy To Remember
15 But Beautiful
16 Glad To Be Unhappy
17 I'll Be Around
18 The End Of A Love affair

Disk 6
1 Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
2 Cheek To Cheek
3 Ill Wind
4 Speak Low
5 We'll Be Togther Again
6 All Or Nothing At All
7 Sophisticated Lady
8 April In Paris
9 I Wished On The Moon
10 But Not For Me
11 Say It Isn't So
12 Our Love Is Here To Stay
13 Nice Work If You Can Get It
14 Willow Weep For Me
15 My Man
16 Lover, Come Back To Me
17 Lady Sings The Blues
18 What A Little Moonlight Can Do

若い頃、仕事が滅茶苦茶に忙しくてきつかった時にビリー・ホリデイを聴けなかった時期がある。
ホリデイの歌が余りに心に沁み込んでかえって落ち込んでしまうから。
気持が同化してしまった。

改めて集中して聴いてみるとやっぱりビリー・ホリデイは凄いと思う。
唯一無比の存在です。
彼女の歌そのものがジャズだからもうどうしょうもない。
誰も超えることは出来ない存在です。

今作には１９５２〜１９５８年収録のアルバム１２枚が入っています。
Disk 1 / *Billie Holiday Sings(1952) & *An Evening With Billie Holiday(1953)
Disk 2 / *Billie Holiday(1954) & *Music For Torching(1955)
Disk 3 / *Velvet Mood(1956) & * Lady Sings The Blues(1956)
Disk 4 / *Body And Soul(1957) & *Stay With Me(1958)
Disk 5 / *Songs For Distingue Lovers(1957) & *Lady In Satin(1958)
Disk 6 / *All Or Nothing At All(1958) & * Billie Holiday At Newport(1958)

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* BILLIE HOLIDAY / SIXTEEN OF HER GREATEST INTERPRETATIONS
billie holiday(vo)
1939,1944Rec/Commodore/

Side A
1 Strange Fruit
2 Yesterdays
3 Fine And Mellow
4 I Gotta Right To Sing The Miles
5 How Am I To Know !
6 My Old Flame
7 I'll Get By
8 I Cover The Waterfront
Side B
1 I'll Be Seeing You
2 I'm Yours
3 Embrace4able You
4 As Time Goes By
5 She's Funny That Way
6 Lover Come Back To Me
7 I Love My Man
8 On The Sunny Side Of The Street

ビリー・ホリディ(vo)の代表作の一枚です。
１８歳でデビューして実働２６年、４４歳で亡くなっています。
天才肌の偉大なジャズ・ヴォーカリストです。
全く新しいジャズ・ヴォーカルの世界を切り開きました。
その魂の歌声は聴く人の心に染み込んできます。
今作はコモドア・レーベルに吹き込んだ貴重な音源を集めたものです。

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* BILLIE HOLIDAY & LESTER YOUNG / A MUSICAL ROMANCE
billie holiday(vo), lester young(ts), etc
1937-1958Rec/Columbia/

1 The Man I Love
2 This Years Kisses
3 Mean To Me
4 Back In Your Own Backyard
5 I'll Never Be The Same
6 Me, Myself And I
7 Time On My Hands
8 Who Wants Love?
9 I Must Have That Man
10 Foolin' Myself
11 When You're Smiling
12 A Sailbost In The Moonlight
13 He's Funny That Way
14 Laughing At Life
15 Without Your Love
16 Fine And Mellow

ビリー・ホリディ(vo)とレスター・ヤング(ts)の共演作を集めたものです。
モダン・ジャズおける天才二人の独特の雰囲気が伝わってきます。
１９３７年から１９５８年まで２０年以上も続いていたとは意外でした。
ここには私が「古い良い曲巡り」のキッカケになった曲が入っています。
（７）「Time On My Hands」です。

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