Billie Holiday - At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival 1957 [New CD] Spain - I

This release contains a rarely heard performance given by Billie Holiday at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, in Ontario, Canada, in 1957. As a bonus, Holiday’s complete Monterey Jazz Festival concert from the following year, featuring hornmen Gerry Mulligan, Benny Carter and Buddy DeFranco. To round out this CD, four additional Billie Holiday live sets in their entirety, including her two songs at the Plaza Hotel in 1958, and three hard to find broadcasts: her only known recordings with the Percy Faith orchestra (1956), an obscure 1957 broadcast from Mr. Kelly’s min Chicago with Paul Quinichette, and her three songs on the London TV show “Chelsea at Nine”, in 1959, which marks one of the final recordings of her career.PERSONNEL:BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocalsMAL WALDRON, pianoERNIE COSACHUCK, bassARCHIE ALLEYNE, drumsLive at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, August 10, 1957.(*) BONUS TRACKS [7-26]:(7-17) Billie Holiday (vcl), Gerry Mulligan (bar), Benny Carter (as), Buddy DeFranco (cl) Mal Waldron (p), Eddie Khan (b), Dick Berk (d).Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, California, October 5, 1958.[18-19] Billie Holiday (vcl) with Percy Faith and the Woolworth Orchestra.New York, December 9, 1956.[20-21] Jazz at the Plaza:Billie Holiday (vcl), Buck Clayton (tp), Mal Waldron (p), unknown bass and drums.Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, September 9, 1958.[22-23] Live at Mister Kelly’s:Billie Holiday (vcl), Paul Quinichette (ts), Mal Waldron (p), unknown bass and drums.FM Broadcast, Mister Kelly’s, Chicago, March 1957.[24-26] “Chelsea at Nine” TV Show:Billie Holiday (vcl) with Mal Waldron (p) and the Peter Knight Orchestra (on 24-25 only).TV broadcast, London, England, February 24, 1959.TRACKS:01) Nice Work If You Can Get It02) Willow Weep For Me03) I Only Have Eyes For You04) Billie’s Blues05) Lover, Come Back To Me06) Lady Sings The Blues07) Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do08) Willow Weep For Me09) When Your Lover Has Gone10) God Bless The Child11) I Only Have Eyes For You12) Good Morning Heartache13) Them There Eyes14) Billie’s Blues15) Oh, What A Little Moonlight Can Do16) Trav’lin’ Light17) Lover Come Back To Me18) You Better Go Now19) Them There Eyes20) When Your Lover Has Gone21) Don’t Explain22) Good Morning HeartacheV23) You Better Go Now24) I Loves You Porgy25) Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone26) Strange FruitTOTAL TIME: 75:09 Min