Velvet Mood

Velvet Mood
Studio album by Billie Holiday
Released 1956
Recorded August 23, 25 1955
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 37:41
Label Clef Records (Verve Records)
Producer Norman Granz
Billie Holiday chronology
Music For Torching
(1955)
Velvet Mood
(1956)
The Lady Sings
(1956)

Velvet Mood (subtitled Songs by Billie Holiday) (MGC 713) is an album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in 1956 on Clef Records.[1] The music was recorded over the course of two sessions in Los Angeles, two days apart, which had also resulted in all the material for her previous album Music for Torching (MGC 669) .[2]

Professional ratings
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Allmusic [3]

Track Listing

Side one

  1. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Irving Gordon) - 5:37
  2. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) - 4:58
  3. "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (Sam H. Stept, Sidney Clare, Bee Palmer) - 4:23
  4. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:48

Side two

  1. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:55
  2. "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) – 4:20
  3. "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" (Ray Noble) – 4:05
  4. "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Burton Lane, Harold Adamson) – 4:33

Personnel

Billie Holiday - Vocals
Benny Carter - Alto Saxophone
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet
Jimmy Rowles - Piano (celeste on I Hadn't Anyone Till You and What's New?)
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Larry Bunker - Drums
John Simmons - Bass

Alex de Paula - artwork

References

  1. Velvet Mood, Discogs.com, accessed Feb 13, 2016
  2. Billie Holiday sessionography, the Jazz Discography Project, accessed Feb 13, 2016
  3. Velvet Mood at Allmusic
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