Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (2007)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (2007)
DVD5 | Video: MPEG 2, 720x480 (4:3), 29.97 fps | Audio: AC3, 48.0 KHz, 2 ch, 448 Kbps | 1,99 GB | Cover (11 MB) included
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Salt Peanuts
DVD5 | Video: MPEG 2, 720x480 (4:3), 29.97 fps | Audio: AC3, 48.0 KHz, 2 ch, 448 Kbps | 1,99 GB | Cover (11 MB) included
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Salt Peanuts
This DVD presents most of Billie Holiday’s filmed performances, taken from TV shows filmed between 1950 and 1959. Performance footage of Billie Holiday may admittedly be scant, but this issue compiles into a single release song cuts from some of Holiday's live filmed performances that are still extant. Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit video Concerts from which the compilation draws include: an August 19, 1950 gig with Count Basie and his orchestra, an August 13, 1956 set with pianist Corky Hale and his trio; a July 10, 1958 set, filmed in Newark, in which Holiday is backed up by tenor saxophonist Georgie Auld, bassist Vinnie Burke, pianist Mal Waldron and others; and a November 1958 Parisian set where Holiday is accompanied by Waldron and bassist Michel Gaudry. Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit film The program wraps with two selections from a February 1959 set featuring Mal Waldron and Peter Knight's orchestra, and then jumps back to Manhattan in December 1957 for one track performed with such artists as Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and others.Tracklist:
01. God Bless The Child
02. Now Baby, Or Never
03. My Man
04. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
05. Billie's Blues
06. Easy To remember
07. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
08. Foolin' Myself
09. I Only Have Eyes For You
10. Travelin' Light
11. Strange Fruit
12. I Love You Porgy
13. Fine And Mellow
Total time: 37:52
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (2007)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (2007)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (2007)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (2007)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (2007)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (2007)
