An Evening with Billie Holiday

An Evening with Billie Holiday
Studio album by Billie Holiday
Released	March 1953
Recorded	April 1, 1952 & July 27, 1952
Genre	Jazz
Length	23: 45
Label	Clef (Verve Records)
Producer	Norman Granz
Billie Holiday chronology
Billie Holiday Sings (1952) An Evening with Billie Holiday (1953) Billie Holiday (1954)

An Evening with Billie Holiday is the second studio album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in 1953.

Track listing

1. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:41
2. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:36
3. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:37
4. "He's Funny That Way" (Richard Whiting, Neil Morret) – 3:11
5. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach – 2:49
6. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:23
7. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
8. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 2:34

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Personnel

The personnel of this album are from two different recording dates, with different musicians.

April 1, 1952 Personnel:
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Flip Phillips - Tenor Saxophone
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Alvin Stoller - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass

July 27, 1952 Personnel:
Billie Holiday - Vocal
Joe Newman - Trumpet
Paul Quinichette - Tenor Saxophone
Oscar Peterson - Piano (Organ on Yesterdays)
Freddie Green - Guitar
Gus Johnson - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass

References

v d e Billie Holiday Albums Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude · An Evening with Billie Holiday · Billie Holiday · Billie Holiday at JATP · Stay with Me · Music for Torching · Velvet Mood · Lady Sings the Blues · Body and Soul · Songs for Distingué Lovers · Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport · All or Nothing at All · Lady in Satin · Last Recordings · Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years · Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 · Remixed and Reimagined Songs "Ain't Nobody's Business" · "As Time Goes By" · "Billie's Blues" · "Blue Moon" · "Body and Soul" · "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" · "Don't Explain" · "Easy Living" · "Embraceable You" · "Everything Happens for the Best" · "Everything Happens to Me" · "Fine and Mellow" · "Gloomy Sunday" · "God Bless the Child" · "Good Morning Heartache" · "I Cover The Waterfront" · "I Loves You, Porgy" · "I Thought About You" · "I'll Be Seeing You" · "I'll Get By" · "I'm Left Alone" · "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" · "Just One of Those Things" · "Lady Sings the Blues" · "Love for Sale" · "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" · "Me, Myself, and I" · "Miss Brown to You" · "My Man" · "Moonlight in Vermont" · "Night and Day" · "No More" · "Now or Never" · "Our Love Is Different" · "P.S. I Love You" · "Pennies from Heaven" · "Please Don't Do It Here" · "Preacher Boy" · "Sophisticated Lady" · "Stormy Blues" · "Strange Fruit" · "Summertime" · "Too Marvelous for Words" · "Trav'lin' Light" · "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" · "What Is This Thing Called Love?" · "Who Needs You (Baby)" · "Why Was I Born?" · "Willow Weep for Me" · "You Go to My Head" Videography The Emperor Jones · New Orleans · Sugar Chile Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet · The Sound of Jazz Related topics Ella Fitzgerald · Sarah Vaughan · Lena Horne · "Angel of Harlem" · Lady Sings the Blues Book:Billie Holiday

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