ESP 3005 Billie Holiday / The Lady Lives

3rd of a series of 4 albums of newly discovered and previously unreleased recorded broadcasts from the Boris Rose archives.
℗© 1973 by ESP-Disk'
Printed in U.S.A.

Personnel

Tracks 1 & 2:
probably Carl Drinkard (p) Billie Holiday (vo) Steve Allen (ann) Skitch Henderson (dir) unidentified studio house band, and others
television broadcast, "The Steve Allen Tonight Show", NYC, February 10, 1956

Tracks 3-6:
probably Carl Drinkard (p) unknown (b) Eddie Phyfe (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
radio broadcast, Olivia Davis' "Patio Lounge", Washington DC, October 27, 1956

Track 7:
probably Carl Drinkard (p) Billie Holiday (vo) Skitch Henderson (dir) unidentified studio house band, including strings
television broadcast, "The Steve Allen Tonight Show", NYC, November 8, 1956

Track 8:
Doc Cheatham, Roy Eldridge (tp) Vic Dickenson (tb) Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young (ts) Gerry Mulligan (bars) Mal Waldron (p) Danny Barker (g) Milt Hinton (b) Osie Johnson (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
CBS TV program, CBS Studio 58, NYC, December 8, 1957

Tracks 9-11:
Buck Clayton (tp) Tyree Glenn (tb) Georgie Auld (ts) Mal Waldron (p) Mary Osborne (g) Vinnie Burke (b) Osie Johnson (d) Billie Holiday (vo)
television broadcast, "Art Ford's Jazz Party", Channel 13, NYC, July 10, 1958

Tracks 12-14:
add Charlie Shavers (tp) Harry Sheppard (vib)
television broadcast, "Art Ford's Jazz Party", Channel 13, NYC, July 17, 1958

Track Listing

1. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
2. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
3. Nice Work If You Can Get It
4. God Bless The Child
5. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
6. Don't Explain
7. Porgy
8. Fine And Mellow
9. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
10. Foolin' Myself
11. Easy To Remember
12. Moanin' Low
13. Don't Explain
14. When Your Lover Has Gone


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