BILLIE HOLIDAY - Hits [Limited Digipak] CD NEW

• 3-CD SET EDITION• 60 TRACKS• SPECIAL 10-PANEL DIGIPACK• INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLETContained here are some of the most important recordings by the great Billie Holiday (1915-1959), considered by many to be the best jazz singer of all time. This set’s first CD compiles a selection of Billie’s incredible ballad performances, while the second is devoted to her medium and up-tempo numbers. CD3 features the singer’s studio versions of her own compositions. Four songs from a series of sessions presenting Billie backed by Ben Webster and Harry “Sweets” Edison (also represented on the first two discs) have been added as a bonus.PERSONNEL:BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocals on all tracks, plus:COLLECTIVE PERSONNEL:Harry “Sweets” Edison, Charlie Shavers, Roy Eldridge (tp), Ben Webster, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins (ts), Willie Smith, Benny Carter (as), Tony Scott (cl), Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly (p), Kenny Burrell, Barney Kessel (g),Red Mitchell, Ray Brown (b), Chico Hamilton, Alvin Stoller (d).Recorded in Los Angeles & New York between 1939 & 1959.TRACKS:CD1: THE BALLADS (77:56)01 Strange Fruit [Verve version]02 P.S. I Love You03 We’ll Be Together Again04 I Didn’t Know What Time It Was05 Trav’lin’ Light06 Good Morning, Heartache07 Body and Soul08 These Foolish Things09 Willow Weep for Me10 Ill Wind11 Come Rain or Come Shine12 I’m a Fool to Want You13 Gloomy Sunday14 Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me15 I Thought About You16 All the Way17 I Loves You Porgy18 I’ll Be Seeing You19 Lover Man20 Strange Fruit [Commodore version]CD2: THE SWINGER (77:48)01 What a Little Moonlight Can Do02 A Foggy Day03 Ain’t Misbehavin’04 Just One of Those Things05 All of Me06 Too Marvelous for Words07 Lover Come Back to Me08 They Can’t Take That Away from Me09 Love Me or Leave Me10 Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off11 Them There Eyes12 On the Sunny Side of the Street13 Stars Fell on Alabama14 One for My Baby15 I Wished on the Moon16 Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You17 How Deep Is the Ocean?18 I Hear Music19 Day In, Day Out20 Swing, Brother, SwingCD3: THE COMPOSER (75:50)01 Billie’s Blues [1936 Columbia version]02 Everything Happens for the Best03 Long Gone Blues04 Our Love Is Different05 Tell Me More06 God Bless the Child [1941 Columbia version]07 Fine and Mellow [1939 Commodore version]08 Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man) [1944 Commodore version]09 Don’t Explain [1945 Decca version]10 Now or Never [1949 Decca version]11 Somebody’s on My Mind12 God Bless the Child [1950 Decca version]13 Stormy Blues14 Lady Sings the Blues15 God Bless the Child [1956 Verve version]16 Fine and Mellow [1957 Columbia version]17 Love Is Here to Stay (*)18 Embraceable You (*)19 Darn That Dream (*)20 But Not For Me (*)(*) BONUS TRACKS