An Evening with Billie Holiday

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

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Allmusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]

A Recital by Billie Holiday
Compilation album by Billie Holiday
Released	1956
Recorded	April 1952, July 27, 1952, April 14, 1954
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	36:52
Label	Clef (Verve Records)
Producer	Norman Granz
Billie Holiday chronology
A Recital by Billie Holiday (1956) Solitude (1956)

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Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

An Evening with Billie Holiday (MG C-144) is the second 10-inch LP studio album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released by Clef Records in 1953.^[5]

In 1956, when the 10-inch format was phased out, the album was reissued by Clef with the same artwork, and seven of the eight tracks, as a 12-inch LP called A Recital by Billie Holiday (MG C-686).^[6] The track "Tenderly", was moved to another 12-inch compilation called Solitude. Five additional tracks were added that had been previously released on her third 10-inch LP, simply titled Billie Holiday.

A side

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 Moret) – 3:11

B side

1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 2:49
2. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:23
3. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
4. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) – 2:34

A side

1. "If the Moon Turns Green" (George Cates, Bernie Hanighen) – 2:46
2. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) – 2:34
3. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 3:43
4. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:37
5. "Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:36
6. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:41

B side

1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach – 2:49
2. "He's Funny That Way" (Richard Whiting, Neil Moret) – 3:11
3. "I Can't Face the Music" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:14
4. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 3:00
5. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry M. Woods) – 3:14
6. "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) – 2:27

The personnel of the original 10-inch "LP are from two different recording dates, with different musicians. The 12-inch LP adds one track from each of the two sessions, as well as three tracks from a 1954 session.

April 1952 Personnel (exact date unknown)
(Evening tracks B3-4; Recital tracks A1-A3):

• Billie Holiday – vocals
• Charlie Shavers – trumpet
• Flip Phillips – tenor saxophone
• Oscar Peterson – piano
• Barney Kessel – guitar
• Alvin Stoller – drums
• Ray Brown – bass

July 27, 1952 Personnel
(Evening tracks A1-B2; Recital tracks A4-6, B1-3):

• Billie Holiday – vocals
• Joe Newman – trumpet
• Paul Quinichette – tenor saxophone
• Oscar Peterson – piano (organ on "Yesterdays")
• Freddie Green – guitar
• Gus Johnson – drums
• Ray Brown – bass

April 14, 1954 Recordings
(Recital tracks B4-6)

• Billie Holiday – vocals
• Charlie Shavers – trumpet
• Oscar Peterson – piano
• Herb Ellis – guitar
• Ed Shaughnessy – drums
• Ray Brown – bass