20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billie Holiday

by Billie Holiday

Overview

While it can't hope to compete with the impressive box sets of her work or even more specialized single-disc collections, 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billie Holiday still manages to present a fair amount of her most definitive work from the '40s, even though it's only 12 tracks long. "Strange Fruit," "Lover Man," "Lady Sings the Blues," and "My Man" are all here, along with "Fine and Mellow," "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do," and "I Loves You Porgy." Not surprisingly since its track listing is so small, this collection is somewhat unfocused and definitely incomplete, but it offers a tantalizing taste of Billie Holiday's most musically fruitful period. ~ Heather Phares

Product Details

Release Date:	07/30/2002
Label:	Hip-O
UPC:	0731458999522

Tracks

1. Strange Fruit
2. Fine and Mellow
3. Lover Man
4. Don't Explain
5. Good Morning Heartache
6. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do
7. My Man
8. I Loves You, Porgy
9. Lady Sings the Blues
10. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
11. I Cover the Waterfront
12. God Bless the Child

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Billie Holiday   Primary Artist
Bill Stegmeyer's Orchestra   Orchestra
Toots Camarata   Conductor
Tony Scott's Orchestra   Ensemble,Orchestra
Bob Haggart   Conductor

Technical Credits

Billie Holiday   Composer
Jimmy Sherman   Composer
Irene Higginbotham   Composer
Arthur Herzog, Jr.   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Tony Scott   Producer
Pat Lawrence   Executive Producer
Gavin Lurssen   Mastering
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
DuBose Heyward   Composer
Joseph F. Laredo   Liner Notes
Lewis Allan   Composer
Jimmy Davis   Composer
Norman Granz   Producer
Michele Horie   Art Coordinator,Project Coordinator
Dana Smart   Associate Producer
Dan Fisher   Composer
Herbie Nichols   Composer
Jacques Charles   Composer
Clarence Williams   Composer
Everett Robbins   Composer
Edward Heyman   Composer
Porter Grainger   Composer
Channing Pollack   Composer
Ervin Drake   Composer
Johnny Green   Composer
Roger "Ram" Ramirez   Composer
Vartan   Art Direction
Maurice Yvain   Composer
James Sherman   Composer
Albert Willemetz   Composer
Herman Leonard   Photography
Paul J. Hoeffler   Inlay Photography
William Gottlieb   Cover Photo,Photography
Ryan Null   Photo Research
Robert Prince   Composer
James Davis   Composer
Michael Ochs   Photography
Andy McKaie   Producer