Jazz standards popularized by Billie Holiday, arranged for piano by Marian McPartland (track 4), Teddy Wilson (track 3), and Jed Distler (remainder). Notes by Jed Distler in English (11 pages, with portraits). Lara Downes, solo piano. Recorded 2014 June 4-6, Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia.
Contents:
But beautiful / Van Heusen (2:43). God bless the child / Holiday, Herzog Jr. (3:29) -- Blue moon / Rodgers (1:16) -- Willow weep for me / Ronell (3:37) -- Don't explain / Holiday, Herzog Jr. (2:57) -- Body and soul / Green (2:19) -- I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you / Young (2:59) -- I wished on the moon / rainger (2:59) -- Them there eyes / Pinkard, Tauber, Tracey (3:27) -- Billie's blues / Holiday (3:15) -- Good morning heartache / Higginbotham, Drake, Fisher (2:56) -- The end of a love affair / Redding (2:28) -- What a little moonlight can do / Woods (1:29) -- Ain't nobody's business / Grainger, Robbins (3:30) -- Strange fruit / Meeropol (4:00) -- I'll be seeing you / Fain (3:38) -- Lover man / Davis, Ramirez, Sherman (2:47) -- I'm a fool to want you / Sinatra, Wolf, Herron (3:03) -- I'll be around / Wilder (2:22) -- I cover the waterfront / Green (4:09) -- (In my) Solitude / Ellington (2:56) -- But beautiful / Van Heusen (2:43).
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