Billie Holiday – Body And Soul (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series)

– Side 1 –

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

– Side 2 –

1 Comes Love

2 Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You

3 Embraceable You

4 Moonlight in Vermont

Notes: Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in tip-on jacket. Small jazz groups brought out the best in Billie Holiday – especially groups as good as the one heard on this classic 1957 recording. Ben Webster, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison and the other members of this stellar ensemble were not just gifted soloists but sensitive accompanists as well. Lady Day was rarely more ably supported than she was on this program of sturdy standards, including three gems by the Gershwin brothers – and she rarely sounded more luminous.