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Billie Holiday |
 Alberto Varela |
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It has always been something extraordinary to belong to that minority of people in the world who enjoy jazz. And it has always been great to find other people in the world who like that kind of music. In recent years the internet has made it possible to communicate with jazz lovers all over the world. For Billie Holiday fans there is a group <bholiday mailing list> holiday@lists.spunge.org where members ask and answer questions about Lady Day. One important member is Alberto Varela (photo top right) who has made a Billie Holiday sessionography for download and recently he has offered his online sessionography. Both are very helpful when you want to verify facts about Billie's recordings. My own Billie Holiday record collection contains about 600 different recordings, most of them on CD, some rare ones only on LP. |
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Six of the nine CDs "The Quintessential Billie Holiday"
covering all the Columbia work from 1933 to 1942 a must for every fan |
| My favourite songs: |
| Title | recording date | Album |
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| The Very Thought of You (Noble) | Sep 15 1938 | Quintessential vol 6 |
| You Go To My Head (Coots/Gillespie) | May 11 1938 | Quintessential vol 6 |
| Any Old Time (Artie Shaw) | July 24 1938 | Spiegel Jazz Vol 10 |
| Jim (Petrillo/Ross/Shawn) | Aug 7 1941 | Quintessential vol 9 |
| I'll look around (Cory / Cross) | Apr 6 1946 | The Complete Decca Recordings |
| I Cover The Waterfront (Green/Heyman) | Oct 1953 | The Storyville Concerts |
| I thought about you (Van Heusen / Mercer) | Sep 3 1954 | Lady Sings the Blues |
| For All We Know (Lewis / Coots) | Feb 19 1958 | Lady in Satin CBS |
| Many ballads - yes. But I like the fast things, too | ||
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