Don't Explain is a song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. It is said Billie wrote Don't Explain after her husband, Jimmy Monroe, came. Lady Sings the Blues is a song written by jazz singer Billie Holiday, and jazz pianist Herbie Nichols. It is the title song to her 1956 album, released on. Billie Holiday singing, I'll Be Seeing You, recorded live at her November 10, 1956 Carnegie Hall Concert.

The discography of Billie Holiday consists of twelve studio albums, three live albums, twenty-four compilations, and five box sets.

Billie Holiday ( MG C-161) is the third 10 inch LP album of original material by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released on Clef Records in 1954 (her final album would also be given the same title, prior to being changed to Last Recording instead). The recordings took place in 1952 and 1954. Holiday never entered the recording studio in 1953.

The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live. The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live Tracklist. 2. Lady Sings the Blues Lyrics. 3. Ain't Nobody's Business Lyrics. This Is Billie Holiday. The Centennial Collection. Show all albums by Billie Holiday. The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live.

Recorded At – Carnegie Hall. Mastered At – PRS, Louviers. Printed By – Polygram Industries Messageries. Distributed By – Polydor. This essential jazz recording has been pressed on pure vinyl. Original work tapes cut at the recording session have been meticulously remastered to present these vital performances in fullest fidelity. Carnegie hall, new york, november 10, 1956. Imprimé en France - Diffusé par POLYDOR - Imp. Polygram industries messageries. 2016 Original Album plus Bonus. Stay With Me. Billie Holiday, Tony Scott & His Orchestra, Billie Holiday, Tony Scott & His Orchestra. 2016 Original Album plus Bonus Tracks 1958. Billie Holiday sings Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday - The Golden Arrow Collection.

1. Reading From "Lady Sings The Blues" 1 - Live At Carnegie Hall/1956. Lady Sings The Blues - Live At Carnegie Hall/1956. Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Live At Carnegie Hall/1956. 4. Reading From "Lady Sings The Blues" 2/Trav'lin' Light - Live At Carnegie Hall/1956. 5. Reading From "Lady Sings The Blues" 3 - Live At Carnegie Hall/1956. 6. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Live At Carnegie Hall/1956. HOLIDAY, Billie: You're My Thrill (1944-1949). The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes. Holiday, Billie: Trav'Lin' Light (1940-1944). Holiday, Billie: Fine and Mellow (1936-1941). The Commodore Master Takes. The Complete Decca Recordings.

After the success of her album, Lady in Satin (1958), Billie Holiday wanted to record another album with arranger Ray Ellis. Ellis had switched from Columbia to MGM, so Billie switched labels also to avoid breaching her contract with Columbia. When she returned to the studio in March 1959, jazz critic and friend of Holiday’s Leonard Feather, said Holiday walked into the studio statuesque and sharp as ever. Unlike Lady in Satin, Billie Holiday had a lighter string orchestra, minus the choir, and more horns, including a saxophone and a more jazz like feeling. It also demand less fanfare. Music for Torching The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert.

Advertisement for Billie Holiday's 1956 Carnegie Hall concert. On November 10, 1956, Holiday performed two concerts before packed audiences at Carnegie Hall, a major accomplishment for any artist, especially a black artist of the segregated period of American history. Interspersed among Holiday's songs, Gilbert Millstein of The New York Times read aloud four lengthy passages from her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues.

This live concert album, recorded at two packed shows at Carnegie Hall in November 1956, contains the biographical narration that accompanied the music during the concerts, recited by Gilbert Millstein of The New York Times. Billie Holiday is backed by the Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring guitarist Kenny Burrell and two horn sections including Coleman Hawkins and Al Cohn on tenor sax and Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton on trumpet. This album was recorded live at Carnegie Hall as part of a concert in which Holiday sang and in which she also had several sections of her autobiography, Lady Sings The Blues, read aloud to highlight various aspects of her life and to serve as introductions to some of the songs. The readings were performed by Gilbert Millstein, who was a writer for The New York Times and who also contributed liner notes to this record.