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| The jazz legend’s career is celebrated on this two-CD set, plus a bonus DVD with memorabilia, movie clips and audio rarities. |
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| 26 Crazy He Calls Me |
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| 27 Detour Ahead |
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| 28 These Foolish Things |
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| 29 You Go to My Head |
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| 30 Love Me or Leave Me |
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| 31 Willow Weep for Me |
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| 32 I Thought About You |
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| 33 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm |
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| 34 Come Rain or Come Shine |
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| 35 It Had to Be You |
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| 36 What's New? |
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| 37 Lady Sings the Blues |
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| 38 I Cover the Waterfront [Live] |
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| 39 Body and Soul |
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| 40 But Not for Me |
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| 41 One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) |
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| 42 I'm a Fool to Want You |
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| 43 Saddest Tale [DVD] |
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| 44 The Blues Are Brewin' [DVD] |
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| 45 Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans [DVD] |
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| 46 My Man (Mon Homme) [DVD] |
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| 47 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone [DVD] |
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| 48 Billie's Blues [DVD] |
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| 49 Fine and Mellow [DVD] |
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| 50 What a Little Moonlight Can Do [DVD] |
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Album Review
Although the title could only have been coined by a marketing department, "The Ultimate Collection" deserves the highest of praise. It is not only the first American compilation to survey Billie Holiday's entire 25-year career -- and astutely, at that -- but it also includes a DVD that presents the lion's share of her film and TV appearances, a full discography, and an interactive timeline. The audio discs spotlight all of Holiday's most innovative material, from the musically pioneering "Billie'S Blues" and "Lover Man," in which she refined the perpetually coarse female blues form and virtually invented the slow-burn torch song, to the socially progressive "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless The Child," wherein she yoked reform concerns to beguiling pop songs and became a master of the protest song. (As it should be, the 1939 of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" seems much more recent than the 1939 when a majority of Southerners felt lynching was justified in case of sexual assault.) The bulk of the material rightly comes from her Verve and Columbia libraries, but there are many inclusions from her breathtaking Decca and Commodore catalogs, as well as a superb version of "Trav'Lin Light" from a 1942 Capitol session with accompaniment from (surprise) the outmoded but effective Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Fittingly, the program begins with one of Holiday's first sessions -- in 1933, when she provided a short vocal chorus over a reading of "Miss Brown To You" by Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra -- and it ends, on the DVD portion, with her reprising another 1933 title for the television program "Art Ford's Jazz Party" one year before her death. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
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