Billie Holiday - The Last Albums SEALED NEW CD

• 2-CD SET• BILLIE’S COMPLETE LAST TWO ALBUMS• INCLUDES 24 BONUS TRACKS!• 24-PAGE BOOKLETThis set presents all of the master takes ever recorded by Billie Holiday backed by Ray Ellis and his orchestra. In 1958, the singer asked Ellis to arrange some sessions for her with a string orchestra. The results were issued as Lady in Satin (Columbia CS-8048), which became a big hit and is considered Billie’s last masterpiece. After a lifetime of drug and alcohol abuse, her voice wasn’t in top form by this point in her career. However, she was above all an artist, and the poignancy with which she performs the material produced a true classic.Such was the success of Lady in Satin that the singer tried to repeat the formula the following year. By that time her health had deteriorated further, and the sessions were hard for both Holiday and Ellis. Holiday would die before the album was released, which led to its title, Last Recording (MGM SE3764/E3764). Both LPs are presented here in their entireties.Various concert and broadcast recordings from Billie’s last two years have been added here as a bonus. Among them are two rare radio tracks with Percy Faith which are the singer’s only other recordings withstrings from this period, her complete 1958 Monterey performance, her 1959 London broadcast from the “Chelsea at Nine” show, and her Storyville club setfrom the same year, which constitutes Billie’s actual last recording ever.PERSONNEL:BILLIE HOLIDAY, vocalsRAY ELLIS and His Orchestra:CD 1 [1-12]: LADY IN SATINColumbia 30th Street Studio, New York, February 18-20, 1958.CD 2 [1-12]: LAST RECORDING. New York, March 3, 4 & 11, 1959.BONUS TRACKSCD 1 [13-23]: 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.CD 2 [13-14]: The Woolworth Orchestra and Strings conducted by Percy Faith.Broadcast, Los Angeles, California, probably 1958.CD 2 [15-16]:JAZZ AT THE PLAZA:BUCK CLAYTON (tp), MAL WALDRON (p), unknown bass and drums.Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, September 9, 1958.CD 2 [17-19]: “Chelsea at Nine” TV Show.MAL WALDRON (p) and orchestra conducted by PETER KNIGHT.London, England, February 25, 1959.CD 2 [20-25]:MAL WALDRON (p) , CHAMP JONES Jones (b), ROY HAYES (d).Broadcast from the Storyville Club, Boston, April 20-26, 1959.TRACKS:CD ONE ( 77:26)01 I’m A Fool To Want You02 For Heaven’s Sake03 You Don’t Know What Love Is04 I Get Along Without You Very Well05 For All We Know06 Violets For Your Furs07 You’ve Changed08 It’s Easy To Remember09 But Beautiful10 Glad To Be Unhappy11 I’ll Be Around12 The End Of A Love Affair13 ‘T Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do (*)14 Willow Weep For Me (*)15 When Your Lover Has Gone (*)16 God Bless The Child (*)17 I Only Have Eyes For You (*)18 Good Morning Heartache (*)19 Them There Eyes (*)20 Billie’s Blues (*)21 Oh, What A Little Moonlight Can Do (*)22 Trav’lin’ Light (*)23 Lover Come Back To Me (*)CD TWO (72:01)01 All Of You02 Sometimes I’m Happy03 You Took Advantage Of Me04 When It’s Sleepy Time Down South05 There’ll Be Some Changes Made06 ‘Deed I Do07 Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me08 All The Way09 Just One More Chance10 It’s Not For Me To Say11 I’ll Never Smile Again12 Baby Won’t You Please Come Home13 You Better Go Now (*)14 Them There Eyes (*)15 When Your Lover Has Gone (*)16 Don’t Explain (*)17 I Loves You Porgy (*)18 Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (*)19 Strange Fruit (*)20 Nice Work If You Can Get It (*)21 Willow Weep For Me (*)22 When Your Lover Has Gone (*)23 Billie’s Blues (*)24 Too Marvelous For Words (*)25 Lover Come Back To Me (*)(*) BONUS TRACKS