Billie Holiday / Ray Ellis And His Orchestra - Billie Holiday album flac

After the success of her album, Lady in Satin (1958), Billie Holiday wanted to record another album with arranger Ray Ellis. Ellis had switched from Columbia to MGM, so Billie switched labels also to avoid breaching her contract with Columbia. When she returned to the studio in March 1959, jazz critic and friend of Holiday’s Leonard Feather, said Holiday walked into the studio statuesque and sharp as ever. Unlike Lady in Satin, Billie Holiday had a lighter string orchestra, minus the choir, and more horns, including a saxophone and a more jazz like feeling. It also demand less fanfare.

Billie Holiday with The Ray Ellis and His Orchestra - Violets For Your Furs 03:26. Ray Ellis And His Orchestra - You Took Advantage Of Me 03:12. Billie Holiday With Ray Ellis And His Orchestra - Lady In Satin (1958) - 09 - But Beautiful 04:32. Billie Holiday With Ray Ellis And His Orchestra - Lady In Satin (1958) - 05 - For All We Know 02:55. Ray Ellis And His Orchestra - You Took Advantage Of Me 03:09. Billie Holiday With Ray Ellis And His Orchestra - I Get Alone Without You Very Well 03:03. Billie Holiday With Ray Ellis And His Orchestra - For All We Know 02:58. Billie Holiday With Ray Ellis And His Orchestra - But Beautiful 04:30. Billie Holiday With Ray Ellis And His Orchestra - Violets For Your Furs 03:28. Billie Holiday With Ray Ellis And His Orchestra - Lady In Satin (1958) - Violets For Your Furs 03:25.

Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis & his orchestra – You Don t Know What Love Is (Gene DePaul. :34. Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis Orchestra – But Beautiful. Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis Orchestra – I Get Along Without You. 3:22. Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis And His Orchestra – All The Way. 2:55. Billie Holiday with The Ray Ellis and His Orchestra – For All We Know. Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis & his Orchestra – Sometimes I'm Happy from Hit the Deck. Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis Orchestra – All the Way. 3:10. Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis & his Orchestra – You Took Advantage of Me from Present Arms. 4:06

Billie Holiday and Vivian Fears. Billie Holiday, Vivan Fears. Billie Holiday, Ray Ellis & His Orchestra. 2016 Original Album plus Bonus Tracks 1959.

This Billie Holiday album was recorded in March 1959 and released four months later, in July 1959, the same month Holiday died; after her death the album was renamed "Last Recording". Al Cohn on tenor sax and Milt Hinton on bass are among the several notable session musicians in Ray Ellis's Orchestra which provides horn-driven accompaniment on most of this material. After the success of her album, Lady in Satin (1958), Billie Holiday wanted to record another album with arranger Ray Ellis. Ellis had switched from Columbia to MGM, so Billie switched labels also to avoid breaching.