Billie Holiday: Songs For Distingué Lovers (1957) [Vinyl, 24-96]
1 "Day In, Day Out" (Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom) 2 "A Foggy Day" (Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin) 3 "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) 4 "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) 5 "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) 6 "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
Billie Holiday - vocal Harry Edison - trumpet Ben Webster - tenor saxophone Jimmy Rowles - piano Barney Kessel - guitar Red Mitchell (1, 2, 6), Joe Mondragon (3, 4, 5) - double bass Alvin Stoller (1, 2, 6), Larry Bunker (3, 4, 5) - drums
"Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 4:48
"All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 7:15
"Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:49
"My One and Only Love" (Robert Mellin, Guy Wood) – 6:15
"Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 5:31
"My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting) – 7:18
"Where or When" (Rodgers, Hart) – 6:28
Art Tatum – piano, Ben Webster – tenor saxophone, Red Callender – double bass, Bill Douglass – drums
Recorded Sep. 11, 1956.
"Something to Live For" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn)
"A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing" (a.k.a. "Passion") (Strayhorn)
"Passion Flower" (Strayhorn)
"I Like the Sunrise"
"Azure" (Irving Mills)
"Imagine My Frustration" (Strayhorn, Gerald Stanley Wilson)
"Duke's Place" (a.k.a. "C Jam Blues") (Bill Katz, Ruth Roberts, Bob Thiele)
"Brown-skin Gal (in the Calico Gown)" (Paul Francis Webster)
"What Am I Here For?" (Frankie Laine)
"Cotton Tail" – 3:41
Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals, Duke Ellington - Conductor, composer, lyricist, arranger, piano, Jimmy Jones - Arranger, piano, Cat Anderson - Trumpet, Mercer Ellington - Trumpet, Herb Jones - Trumpet, Cootie Williams - Trumpet, Lawrence Brown - Trombone, Buster Cooper - Trombone, Chuck Connors - Bass trombone, Johnny Hodges - Alto saxophone, Russell Procope - Alto saxophone, Paul Gonsalves - Tenor saxophone, Jimmy Hamilton - Tenor saxophone, clarinet, Harry Carney - Baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, John Lamb - Bass, Louis Bellson - Drums
Recorded October 18, 19, 20, 1965
"Mrs. Parker of K.C. (Bird's Mother)" (Jaki Byard)
"Ode to Charlie Parker" (Byard)
"Far Cry" (Eric Dolphy)
"Miss Ann" (Dolphy)
"Left Alone" (Billie Holiday, Mal Waldron)
"Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence)
"It's Magic" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn)
Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet, flute, alto saxophone; Booker Little – trumpet; Jaki Byard – piano; Ron Carter – bass; Roy Haynes – drums
Recorded December 21, 1960 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
"JuJu"
"Deluge"
"House of Jade"
"Mahjong"
"Yes or No"
"Twelve More Bars to Go"
(All compositions by Wayne Shorter)
Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner – piano; Reggie Workman – bass; Elvin Jones – drums
Recorded August 3, 1964 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio
"Movin' Along" (Wes Montgomery) – 5:40
"Tune-Up" (Miles Davis) – 4:27
"I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Victor Young, Ned Washington, Bing Crosby) – 5:02
"Sandu" (Clifford Brown) – 3:23
"Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 7:19
"So Do It!" (Montgomery) – 6:05
"Says You" (Sam Jones) – 4:59
Wes Montgomery – guitar, bass guitar; James Clay – flute, tenor sax; Victor Feldman – piano; Sam Jones – bass; Louis Hayes – drums
Recorded October 12, 1960 at United Studios, LA
"Blues Etude" (Oscar Peterson)
"Shelley's World" (Bill Traut)
"Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
"The Shadow of Your Smile" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster)
"If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser)
"Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young)
"Bossa Beguine" (Peterson)
"L' Impossible" (Peterson)
"I Know You Oh So Well" (Peterson)
Oscar Peterson – piano, Sam Jones – double bass (1-4), Ray Brown – double bass (5-9), Louis Hayes – drums
Recorded December 3, 1965 and May 4, 1966 in Chicago
"Blues for Big Scotia" (Oscar Peterson)
"West Coast Blues" (Wes Montgomery)
"Here's That Rainy Day" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
"I Love You" (Cole Porter)
"Daahoud" (Clifford Brown)
"Tricrotism" (Oscar Pettiford)
"I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer)
"Young and Foolish" (Arnold B. Horwitt, Albert Hague)
"Manteca" (Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo)
Oscar Peterson - piano, Ray Brown - double bass, Ed Thigpen - drums; and featuring Roy Eldridge, Nat Adderley, Clark Terry on horns, Cannonball Adderley, James Moody, George Dorsey on reeds, and many more.
Arranged and conducted by Ernie Wilkins; produced by Norman Granz.
Recorded June 13–15, 24, 1962