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    The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes

    12/13/2005 | Verve 

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    All Music Guide Review

    One of the first box sets for completists only, 1993's ten-disc The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 was considered nearly a necessity by anyone interested in jazz vocals. Verve returned to the catalog 12 years later with a much tighter, much smarter collection: The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes. Encompassing six discs, the set skips the many live performances and the few alternate takes included on the previous box. Overall, the work compares well to her earlier material for Columbia. Although the old familiar cracks rarely appeared in her voice during her Columbia, Decca, and Commodore years, the song selections weren't all gold, and the needs of that era (the 1930s and '40s) dictated that each side end around the three-minute mark. With Verve during the '50s, Holiday recorded nothing but standards in the studio, and indulged in many longer performances that often resulted in relaxed, methodical songs. Aside from Holiday's mastery of vocal jazz as a form, the practice also allowed for some lengthy, perfectly loving solos by musicians including Ben Webster ("Ill Wind") Harry "Sweets" Edison ("I Didn't Know What Time It Was," "Day in, Day Out"), Benny Carter ("I Get a Kick Out of You," "Prelude to a Kiss"), and Charlie Shavers ("I Wished on the Moon"). If the previous "Complete on Verve" set was an expensive bauble that listeners rarely returned to, this "Complete Verve" is a much brighter proposition. (The accordion-like packaging, however, leaves much to be desired.) ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • 1
  • East of the Sun
  • 2:56

  • 2
  • Blue Moon
  • 3:30

  • 3
  • You Go to My Head
  • 2:55

  • 4
  • You Turned the Tables on Me
  • 3:28

  • 5
  • Easy to Love
  • 3:00

  • 6
  • These Foolish Things
  • 3:37

  • 7
  • I Only Have Eyes for You
  • 2:55

  • 8
  • Solitude
  • 3:30

  • 9
  • Everything I Have Is Yours
  • 3:46

  • 10
  • Love for Sale
  • 2:58

  • 11
  • Moonglow
  • 3:01

  • 12
  • Tenderly
  • 3:23

  • 13
  • If the Moon Turns Green
  • 2:47

  • 14
  • Remember
  • 2:36

  • 15
  • Autumn in New York
  • 3:43

  • 16
  • My Man
  • 2:37

  • 17
  • Lover, Come Back to Me
  • 3:35

  • 18
  • Stormy Weather
  • 3:43

  • 19
  • Yesterdays
  • 2:50

  • 20
  • He's Funny That Way
  • 3:12

  • 21
  • I Can't Face the Music
  • 3:12

  • 22 (2)
  • How Deep Is the Ocean?
  • 2:57

  • 23 (2)
  • What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  • 3:12

  • 24 (2)
  • I Cried for You
  • 2:28

  • 25 (2)
  • Love Me or Leave Me
  • 2:35

  • 26 (2)
  • P.S. I Love You
  • 3:37

  • 27 (2)
  • Too Marvelous for Words
  • 2:13

  • 28 (2)
  • Softly
  • 2:57

  • 29 (2)
  • I Thought About You
  • 2:48

  • 30 (2)
  • Willow Weep for Me
  • 3:08

  • 31 (2)
  • Stormy Blues
  • 3:28

  • 32 (2)
  • Say It Isn't So
  • 3:03

  • 33 (2)
  • I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
  • 3:58

  • 34 (2)
  • I Wished on the Moon
  • 6:49

  • 35 (2)
  • Always
  • 3:58

  • 36 (2)
  • Everything Happens to Me
  • 6:22

  • 37 (2)
  • Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
  • 5:01

  • 38 (2)
  • Ain't Misbehavin'
  • 4:38

  • 39 (3)
  • I Don't Want to Cry Anymore
  • 3:55

  • 40 (3)
  • Prelude to a Kiss
  • 5:34

  • 41 (3)
  • I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
  • 4:28

  • 42 (3)
  • When Your Lover Has Gone
  • 4:59

  • 43 (3)
  • Gone with the Wind
  • 3:25

  • 44 (3)
  • Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
  • 4:20

  • 45 (3)
  • It Had to Be You
  • 4:02

  • 46 (3)
  • Nice Work If You Can Get It
  • 3:50

  • 47 (3)
  • Come Rain or Come Shine
  • 4:23

  • 48 (3)
  • I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
  • 5:53

  • 49 (3)
  • What's New?
  • 4:17

  • 50 (3)
  • A Fine Romance
  • 3:33

  • 51 (3)
  • I Hadn't Anyone Till You
  • 4:04

  • 52 (3)
  • I Get a Kick Out of You
  • 5:41

  • 53 (3)
  • Everything I Have Is Yours
  • 4:31

  • 54 (3)
  • Isn't This a Lovely Day?
  • 4:11

  • 55 (4)
  • Trav'lin' Light
  • 3:09

  • 56 (4)
  • I Must Have That Man!
  • 3:05

  • 57 (4)
  • Some Other Spring
  • 3:37

  • 58 (4)
  • Lady Sings the Blues
  • 3:45

  • 59 (4)
  • Strange Fruit
  • 3:04

  • 60 (4)
  • God Bless the Child
  • 3:59

  • 61 (4)
  • Good Morning Heartache
  • 3:30

  • 62 (4)
  • No Good Man
  • 3:20

  • 63 (4)
  • Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
  • 4:15

  • 64 (4)
  • Cheek to Cheek
  • 3:36

  • 65 (4)
  • Ill Wind
  • 6:16

  • 66 (4)
  • Speak Low
  • 4:28

  • 67 (4)
  • We'll Be Together Again
  • 4:26

  • 68 (4)
  • All or Nothing at All
  • 5:41

  • 69 (4)
  • Sophisticated Lady
  • 4:51

  • 70 (4)
  • April in Paris
  • 3:02

  • 71 (5)
  • I Wished the Moon
  • 3:27

  • 72 (5)
  • Moonlight in Vermont
  • 3:50

  • 73 (5)
  • A Foggy Day
  • 4:41

  • 74 (5)
  • I Didn't Know What Time It Was
  • 6:01

  • 75 (5)
  • Just One of Those Things
  • 5:32

  • 76 (5)
  • Comes Love
  • 4:00

  • 77 (5)
  • Day in, Day Out
  • 6:48

  • 78 (5)
  • Darn That Dream
  • 6:18

  • 79 (5)
  • But Not for Me
  • 3:50

  • 80 (5)
  • Body and Soul
  • 6:23

  • 81 (5)
  • Stars Fell on Alabama
  • 4:30

  • 82 (5)
  • Say It Isn't So
  • 3:18

  • 83 (5)
  • Love Is Here to Stay
  • 3:42

  • 84 (5)
  • One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
  • 5:39

  • 85 (6)
  • They Can't Take That Away from Me
  • 4:11

  • 86 (6)
  • Embraceable You
  • 6:48

  • 87 (6)
  • Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
  • 3:24

  • 88 (6)
  • Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?
  • 5:38

  • 89 (6)
  • All the Way
  • 3:26

  • 90 (6)
  • It's Not for Me to Say
  • 2:29

  • 91 (6)
  • I'll Never Smile Again
  • 3:27

  • 92 (6)
  • Just One More Chance
  • 3:47

  • 93 (6)
  • When It's Sleepy Time Down South
  • 4:08

  • 94 (6)
  • Don't Worry 'Bout Me
  • 3:10

  • 95 (6)
  • Sometimes I'm Happy
  • 2:49

  • 96 (6)
  • You Took Advantage of Me
  • 3:11

  • 97 (6)
  • There'll Be Some Changes Made
  • 2:55

  • 98 (6)
  • 'Deed I Do
  • 2:16

  • 99 (6)
  • All of You
  • 2:34

  • 100 (6)
  • Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
  • 3:05

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    Credits

    • Ray Ellis
    • Arranger, Conductor, Original Recording Producer
    • Tony Scott
    • Clarinet, Original Recording Producer


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