Artist	Song
Billie Holiday	Swing Brother Swing
from Rare Live Recordings 1934 - 1959 (2007)
Billie Holiday	Body and Soul (Live)
from The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993)
Billie Holiday	Strange Fruit (Live)
from The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993)
Billie Holiday	The Man I Love (1946, Carnegie Hall)
from Billie Holiday: Jazz At the Philharmonic, Vol. 1 (1994)
Billie Holiday	God Bless the Child
from Rare Live Recordings 1934 - 1959 (2007)
Billie Holiday	All of Me
from Billie's Blues (1988)
Billie Holiday	I Cover the Waterfront
from Billie's Blues (1988)
Billie Holiday	Them Their Eyes
from Billie's Blues (1988)
Billie Holiday	Billie's Blues (Live)
from The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993)
Billie Holiday	Don't Explain (Live)
from The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993)
Billie Holiday	I Cried for You (Live)
from The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993)
Billie Holiday	My Man (Live)
from The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993)
Billie Holiday	What a Little Moonlight Can Do (Live)
from The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993)
Billie Holiday	Good Morning Heartache
from Rare Live Recordings 1934 - 1959 (2007)
Billie Holiday	Lady Sings the Blues (Live)
from The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993)
Billie Holiday	Lover Man (Live)
from The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 (1993)
Billie Holiday	Lover, Come Back to Me (Live, Newport 1957)
from At Newport: Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holiday (2000)
Billie Holiday	Willow, Weep for Me (Live, Newport 1957)
from At Newport: Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holiday (2000)
Billie Holiday	Fine and Mellow
from Broadcast Performances Vol. 3 (2004)

Comment:

Perhaps no singer in the history of popular music did a better job at obliterating the lines between the professional and the personal, between art and life, than Billie Holiday. The stage was her confessional, her pulpit, her sitting room, her boudoir. And if you ever wondered about the incandescent power of these performances, just listen to Lady Day as she kills us softly, one breath at a time. From the rare pairing of Billie and Basie in the jaunty naïveté of "Swing Brother Swing" (cobbled together by producer John Hammond from two separate recordings), to sax legend Lester Young matching her phrase for phrase on the sultry, sensuous "Fine and Mellow," to the spine-chilling creepiness of "Strange Fruit (Live)," these tracks — after more than a half-century — still crackle with electric energy. We'll never get to see her live, but we can offer you an all-access pass to the most amazing, career-spanning fantasy concert that never was.

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