If you're a completist who insists on having everything that Billie Holiday recorded, 'The Complete Commodore Recordings' is required listening. But for the more casual listener, it's best to pass on that two-CD set and stick with 'The Commodore Master Takes'. While 'The Complete Commodore Recordings' contains all of the alternate takes that Holiday recorded for Commodore in 1939 and 1944, this collection only concerns itself with the master takes (which total 16).
Holiday never singed an exclusive contract with Commodore - she only freelanced for the label, and the ultra-influential jazz singer spent a lot more time recording for Columbia in the 1930s and early 1940s, and for Decca from 1944-1950. But her Commodore output was first-rate, and Lady Day excels whether she's joined by trumpeter Frankie Newton's octet at a 1939 session or by pianist Eddie Heywood's orchestra at three sessions in 1944. The album gets off to an impressive start with the controversial 'Strange Fruit,' a bone-chilling account of lynching in the Deep South that ended up being released on Commodore because Columbia was afraid to touch it. Holiday is also quite expressive on performances that range from 'Fine and Mellow,' 'I Got a Right to Sing the Blues' and 'Yesterdays' in 1939 to 'My Old Flame,' 'I'll Be Seeing You,' and 'He's Funny That Way' in 1944. For those with even a casual interest in Holiday's legacy, this superb album is essential listening.
Billie Holiday Commodore Master Takes
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Photo from magazine, c. February 1947 Studio albums 12 Live albums 3 Compilation albums 24 Box sets 5 The of consists of twelve, three live albums, twenty-four compilations, and five. Holiday recorded extensively for six labels: (on its subsidiary labels, and ), from 1933 through 1942; in 1939 and 1944; from 1944 through 1950; briefly for in 1951; and its earlier imprint, from 1952 through 1957; again for from 1957 to 1958 and in 1959. Many of Holiday's recordings were released on, before the advent of, and only Clef, Verve, and Columbia issued Holiday albums during her lifetime that were not compilations of previously released material. Many compilations have been issued since her death, including comprehensive and live recordings.
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