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Billie Holiday - Greatest Hits (Sony)
Curiously, yet not surprisingly given the enormity of his sway, Billie Holiday's greatest vocal influence was "Pops"--Louis Armstrong, whose trumpet was his first signature (though he's often credited with being the first great jazz singer as well). One hears Armstrong in Holiday's sense of phrasing, timing, and the warmth she invests in a lyric. This package, containing such touchstone Holiday renderings as "I Cried for You," "Body and Soul," and "When a Woman Loves a Man" (poetic, given the fact that Billie was notoriously unlucky at love), also boasts her signature song, "God Bless the Child." Her accompanists are a hall-of-fame lot, including trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton; saxmen Lester Young (with whom she had a close relationship), Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, and Harry Carney; drummers Cozy Cole and Jo Jones; bassists John Kirby and Walter Page; and her frequent pianist, Teddy Wilson. --Willard Jenkins
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Tracks| 1 | Miss Brown to You - Billie Holiday, Robin, Leo | | 2 | What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday, Woods, Harry | | 3 | I Cried for You - Billie Holiday, Lyman, Abe | | 4 | Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday, Holiday, Billie | | 5 | A Sailboat in the Moonlight - Billie Holiday, Lombardo, Carmen | | 6 | I Can't Get Started - Billie Holiday, Gershwin, Ira | | 7 | When a Woman Loves a Man - Billie Holiday, Mercer, Johnny | | 8 | Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr. | | 9 | Solitude - Billie Holiday, Ellington, Duke | | 10 | God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday, Herzog, Arthur Jr. | | 11 | Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday, Javor, Laszlo | | 12 | The Very Thought of You - Billie Holiday, Noble, Ray | | 13 | Body and Soul - Billie Holiday, Heyman, Edward |
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