Billie Holiday - Miss Brown to You (CD)

MISS BROWN TO YOU is noteworthy for the fact that it includes Holiday's very first recordings. The earliest, "Your Mother's Son In Law" and "Riffin' The Scotch", were recorded with Benny Goodman's orchestra (including Jack Teagarden and Gene Krupa) in 1933. The rest of the album includes work with the Duke Ellington and Teddy Wilson Orchestras. It's difficult to pinpoint these tracks as Lady Day's first however, since she emerges here, if not fully formed, then as an already stunningly distinctive stylist. She approaches vocal phrasing with the sensitivity of an instrumentalist--from the sly swing of "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo" to the up-front seduction of "It's Too Hot For Words". The songs are firmly rooted in the swing era, and it is a pleasure to hear Holiday sing the uptempo songs of the time, rather than her more familiar signature standards--though in ballads like "If You Were Mine" her later intimate, blues-drenched delivery is in full-bloom. MISS BROWN TO YOU, a historical document of Lady Day's first and no less wonderful recordings, is a keeper.

General

Label:	A Touch Of Magic
Release date:	August 2006
Originally released:	October 2001
Performers:	Billie Holiday
Dimensions:	127 x 146 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Running time:	46 minutes
Categories:	Music > Jazz Music > South Africa > Jazz
LSN:	XAT-TBP-EKE-3
Barcode:	5019317000745

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Disk 1

1	Good Morning Heartache
2	You're Driving Me Crazy
3	Maybe You'll Be There
4	You Ain't Gonna Bother Me No More
5	Miss Brown to You
6	Lover Man
7	Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
8	Swing Brother Swing
9	They Can't Take That Away from Me
10	I Can't Get Started
11	Don't Explain
12	The Man I Love
13	Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me
14	I Love My Man (Billie's Blues)
15	All of Me
16	Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans

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