Artist: Billie Holiday
Album: Velvet Mood
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 1956/2015
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 192 kHz
Duration: 37:38
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 1,62 GB

Tracklist:

01. Billie Holiday – Prelude To A Kiss (05:36)
02. Billie Holiday – When Your Lover Has Gone (04:59)
03. Billie Holiday – Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone (04:21)
04. Billie Holiday – Nice Work If You Can Get It (03:52)
05. Billie Holiday – I’ve Got A Right To Sing The Blues (05:53)
06. Billie Holiday – What’s New? (04:18)
07. Billie Holiday – I Hadn’t Anyone Till You (04:05)
08. Billie Holiday – Everything I Have Is Yours (04:32)

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Long out-of-print, Billie Holiday’s brilliant 1956 LP, Velvet Mood, released on Clef (soon-to-be Verve) Records, captures the 41-year-old Holiday backed by a sextet that featured Benny Carter on alto sax and Harry “Sweets” Edison on trumpet. Although hard living had already begun to take its toll on Holiday (who died just three years later), she was still a huge international star at this time, giving sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall and touring Europe. 1956 also marked the year that her legendary biography, Lady Sings the Blues was released.”… Holiday could still sing better than most, her sense of rhythm still mostly intact, her unusual timbre still there (perhaps even a bit more idiosyncratic with age) and still able to tell the story of any song. And what songs she was given for these sessions: there isn’t a dud in the bunch.” –All About Jazz