LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Billie Holiday’s performances during the ’50s were definitely hit-and-miss affairs, but we’ve put together a 20-track collection of some of her best performances during the decade, including her October 1951 Storyville gig with Stan Getz, her Feb. 10, 1956 appearance on 'The Steve Allen Show', a March 1957 performance with Paul Quinichette and more. The CD winds up with the last recording of Lady Day that exists, an April 1959 performance at Storyville; her health was failing but her spirit was not. Includes 'He’s Funny That Way; Billie’s Blues; Them There Eyes; Detour Ahead; You’re Driving Me Crazy; It Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do; Lover Come Back to Me; I Only Have Eyes for You; Willow Weep for Me; A Ghost of a Chance; What a Little Moonlight Can Do; Tenderly; Foolin’ Myself; Good Morning Heartache; You Better Go Now; Nice Work If You Can Get It; When Your Lover Has Gone; Fine and Mellow; Too Marvelous for Words; Lover Come Back to Me', and a bonus performance of 'Don’t Explain' from her 1947 Carnegie Hall concert.