Billie Holiday - Velvet Mood (Mono Remastered) (1955/2019) [Hi-Res]

A velvet mood, but one with a bit of an edge – as you might expect from Billie Holiday in the 50s, hardly the stuff of a too-soft vocal date! The album's got Holiday working in wonderful small combo mode – getting some key Verve backup from players who include Sweets Edison on trumept, Benny Carter on alto sax, Barney Kessel on guitar, and Jimmy Rowles on piano – a warmly intimate group who really fit the sad-tinged vocals from Billie. Tracks are longish – maybe a bit more so than usual for a Holiday Verve session – and the set list includes beautiful renditions of "What's New", "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues", "Prelude To A Kiss", and "When Your Lover Has Gone".

Billie Holiday, vocals
Benny Carter, alto saxophone
Harry Edison, trumpet
Jimmy Rowles, piano, celeste
Barney Kessel, guitar
John Simmons, bass
Larry Bunker, drums

Recorded on August 23, 25 1955
Produced by Norman Granz

Digitally remastered

FYI: We offer this album in its native sampling rate of 44.1 kHz, 24-bit. The provided 192 kHz version was up-sampled and offers no audible value!