Live albums that feature Billie Holiday include:
1934-1958 Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You Live Radio TV and Film Recordings
1934 to 1959 Rare Live Recordings
1937 1937 Count Basie At The Savoy Ballroom
1944 to 1949 The Complete Jazz At The Philharmonic On Verve 1944-1949
1945 to 1958 Jazz at the Philharmonic The Billie Holiday Story vol 1
1948-1957 Banned From New York City Live
1951 1953 At Storyville
1954 Lady Love Live in Basel
1956 The Essential Billie Holiday Carnegie Hall Concert
1957 Ella Fitzgerald Carmen McRae at Newport
1957 1958 At The Stratford Shakespearean Festival
She is also featured on The Complete Jazz At The Philharmonic On Verve 1944-1949
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At Storyville is a live album by Billie Holiday.
It was recorded at Storyville Club in Boston:
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At The Stratford Shakespearean Festival is a collection of live recordings by Billie Holiday.
It has performances from six different venues and dates.
1-6 Stratford Shakespearean Festival 1957
7-17 Monterey Jazz Festival on October 5, 1958
18-19 New York on December 9, 1956
20-21 Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York on September 9, 1958
22-23 FM broadcast, Mister’ Kelly’s in Chicago in March 1957
24-26 TV Broadcast “Tracheal At Nine” February 24, 1959
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The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert is a live album by Billie Holliday.
It was recorded in New York in 1956.
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1. Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
2. Lady Sings the Blues
3. It Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
4. Travelin’ Light With Reading
5. Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
6. Billie’s Blues
7. Body and Soul
8. Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
9. Don’t Explain
10. Yesterdays
11. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
12. I’ll Be Seeing You
13. Reading from Lady Sings the Blues
14. My Man
15. I Cried for You
16. Fine and Mellow
17. I Cover the Waterfront
18. Oh, What a Little Moonlight Can Do
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Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You: Live Radio TV and Film Recordings 1934-1958 is a comprehensive collection of live recordings by Billie Holiday.
For the sources of the 44 songs on the album, I’m grateful for the review on Amazon.com by Barry McCanna.
CD ONE
1: Oct 1934. Duke Ellington. Paramount Film Studios (soundtrack from “Symphony in Black”)
2 & 3: 30 June 1937. Count Basie. Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, NY. (broadcast)
4 – 6: 18 Jan 1944. Esquire All-American All-Stars. Met Opera House, NY
7: 3 June 1946. JATP Concert, Carnegie Hall, NY
8&9: late 1946. Louis Armstrong. Hal Roach Studios, Culver City, LA (soundtrack from “New Orleans”)
10: 13 Jan 1947. Arthur Godfrey Time, NY (CBS radio broadcast)
11&12: 27 Aug 1949. Eddie Condon Floor Show. NBC TV broadcast, NY
13: 24 May 1950. Apollo Theatre concert, NY.
14: August 1950. Count Basie. Film short, Hollywood.
15 – 17: 28 Oct 1951. Al Haig 4 + Stan Getz. Storyville Club, Copley Square Hotel, Boston. WMEX radio broadcast.
18 – 22: 28 Oct 1951. Buster Harding Trio. Venue etc. as above
CD TWO
1 – 4: 14 Nov 1952. Duke Ellington 25th Anniversary (2nd concert) Carnegie Hall, NY.
5 – 10: early Oct 1953. Carl Drinkard Trio. Venue etc. as 15 – 22 above.
11: 22 January 1954. ditto Jazz Club USA Concert, Cologne.
12: 6 May 1955. Count Basie. Carnegie Hall concert, NY.
13. 10 Feb 1956. Steve Allen Tonite. NBC TV broadcast, NY.
14: 27 May 1956. Martha Raye charity show. TV broadcast, NY.
15: 29 Aug 1956. Band Stand USA. Radio broadcast, Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, NJ.
16 & 17: 27 Oct 1956. Carl Drinkard Trio. Olivia Davis Patio Lounge. Radio broadcast, Washington DC.
18: 9 Dec 1956. Percy Faith. Woolworth Jazz Hour. Radio broadcast, LA.
19 & 20: 10 July 1958. Art Ford Jazz Party. WNTA TV broadcast, Newark, NJ.
21 & 22: 17 July 1958. Rest as for 19 & 20.
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At The Savoy Ballroom is a live album by the Count Basie Orchestra.
It was recorded in Harlem, New York in 1937.
The album features Billie Holiday on several on the songs – They Can’t Take That Away From Me and Swing Brother Swing , Jimmy Rushing on one and Lester Young is in the orchestra. The final song – Lover Man – also features Billie Holiday but this time she’s backed by the Toots Camarata Orchestra and not the Basie Orchestra.
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Rare Live Recordings 1934 – 1959 is a 5 CDs collection of Billie Holiday performing live.
Lady Love: Live In Basel is a live album by Billie Holiday performing live in Switzerland in 1954. It was originally released as Ladylove in 1962.
The recording was originally attributed to a concert in Cologne from the same tour but tapes from that concert have been found and released separately.
The 2015 release on the Poll Winners Records labels also includes:
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Banned From New York City Live 1948-1957 is a compilation of live recordings by Billie Holiday.
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Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holiday At Newport is a live album by Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Carmen McRae.
It was recorded at Freebody Park in Newport, Rhode Island in July 1957.
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