The Essential Billie Holiday Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live

The live recordings included here are among the very best from Billie Holiday's final years. Part of the motivation behind the 1956 Carnegie Hall concert was to promote Billie's autobiography, 'Lady Sings the Blues'. The music was attuned entirely to Billie's character part, reinforced by readings from her book by Gilbert Millstein. Although recorded in 1956, the LP was only issued in 1961, almost two years after Billie's passing on July 17, 1959, at the age of 44.

1: Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
2: Lady Sings the Blues
3: It Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
4: Travelin' Light With Reading
5: Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
6: Billie's Blues
7: Body and Soul
8: Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
9: Don't Explain
10: Yesterdays
11: Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
12: I'll Be Seeing You
13: Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
14: My Man
15: I Cried for You
16: Fine and Mellow
17: I Cover the Waterfront
18: Oh, What a Little Moonlight Can Do

Number of Discs: 1

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