Billie Holiday - Stay with Me (PolyGram Jazz Vocal Classics)

Stay with Me, publicado en 1958, incluye temas grabados en 1955, en la etapa última de la carrera profesional de Billie Holiday, pero todavía espléndida.

Esta edición de la serie PolyGram Jazz Vocal Classics presenta tres canciones adicionales pertenecientes a 1954.

Escuchar cantar a Billie Holiday significa la experiencia de adentrarse en un abismo, ingresar en un túnel oscuro con un resplandor al final, y cuanto más se avanza se vuelve más tenue, apenas un destello, como una llama apagándose lentamente.****1/2

1.I Wished On The Moon 6:48
(Ralph Rainger-Dorothy Parker)
2.Ain't Misbehavin' 4:38
Thomas Waller-Harry Brooks-Andy Razaf)
3.Everything Happens To Me 6:20
(Matt Dennis-Tom Adair)
4.Say It Isn't So 3:01
(Irving Berlin)
5.I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 3:55
(Irving Berlin)
6.Always 3:57
(Irving Berlin)
7.Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 5:00
(Duke Ellington-Bob Russell)
8.How Deep Is The Ocean* 2:56
(Irving Berlin)
9.What A Little Moonlight Can Do* 3:09
(Harry Woods)
10.I Cried For You* 2:26
(Gus Arnheim-Abe Lyman-Arthur Freed)

*Additional Track Not On Original LP
FEATURING
CHARLIE SHAVERS - Trumpet
OSCAR PETERSON - Piano
TONY SCOTT - Piano
HERB ELLIS - Guitar

Bass – Leonard Gaskin (1-7), Ray Brown (8-10)
Clarinet – Tony Scott (1-7)
Drums – Cozy Cole (1-7), Ed Shaughnessy (8-10)
Guitar – Billy Bauer (1-7), Herb Ellis (8-10)
Piano – Billy Taylor (1-7), Oscar Peterson (8-10)
Tenor Saxophone – Budd Johnson (1-7)
Trumpet – Charlie Shavers
Vocals – Billie Holiday

Credits on original CD booklet were updated here
according to the Verve official database (discogs.com).

Tracks 1-7 recorded Feb.14, 1955 in New York.
Tracks 8-10 recorded Apr.14, 1954 in New York.

Verve 511 523-2 (1991)