Release Date: 30 August 2013
Label: Poll Winner Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436542014090
Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz
Description
This release contains two complete albums recorded by the great Billie Holiday for Norman Granz: Music for Torching with Billie Holiday (Clef MGC-669), and Velvet Mood (Clef MGC-713). Both LPs were recorded during the same 1955 sessions and received five-star ratings in Down Beat magazine.
Billie is backed here by an all-star sextet including Harry "Sweets" Edison, Benny Carter, Jimmy Rowles, and Barney Kessel. The only existing complete alternate take from the dates, as well as a nearly complete alternate of the same title, have been added here as a bonus.
The Poll Winners label is devoted to the CD reissue of albums that received the maximum 5-star rating in a DownBeat album review. This only rarely happened, and most of the DownBeat albums have become true classics revered by all music lovers. These new editions present the complete original 5-star albums, which are expanded to include interesting bonus albums or tracks by the artist at the peak of their talents.
Tracklisting
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach
Dinah Washington
Art Pepper
Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk
Bill Evans & Jim Hall
Charles Mingus
Sonny Stitt Quartet
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
