All or Nothing at All (album)

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All or Nothing at All
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Studio album by
Billie Holiday
Released1958
RecordedAugust 1956, January 1957
Genre Jazz, vocal jazz
Length50:36
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
Billie Holiday chronology
Stay with Me
(1958)		All or Nothing at All
(1958)		 Lady in Satin
(1958)
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All or Nothing at All is a studio album by Billie Holiday, released in 1958 on Verve Records, catalog MGV8329. [4] There are 12 songs on the LP taken from five different recording sessions that took place in 1956 and 1957. [5] Holiday was backed by a "relaxed and understanding" [6] small combo which included the trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and the saxophonist Ben Webster. A 1959 New York Times article noted that Holiday's voice "had become a very limited instrument which she used with the craft and guile of an aging pitcher who can no longer pour his fast one across the plate." [7]

Contents

Album cover art is by David Stone Martin.

Track listing

Original LP release

LP side 1

  1. "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:12
  2. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:35
  3. "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 6:14
  4. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 4:25
  5. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 4:24
  6. "All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) – 5:39

LP side 2

  1. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 4:48
  2. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg) – 3:02
  3. "I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger) – 3:25
  4. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:48
  5. "Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin) – 3:22
  6. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:41

Personnel

Other versions

CD Reissue

A 2 CD re-issue from 1995 combined all of the tracks from this and two other Holiday albums recorded at the same time, Body and Soul and Songs for Distingué Lovers , with two additional bonus tracks taken from the same recording sessions.

CD Reissue track listing

CD disc 1

  1. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Ellington, Russell) – 4:12
  2. "Cheek to Cheek" (Berlin) – 3:35
  3. "Ill Wind" (Arlen, Koehler) – 6:14
  4. "Speak Low" (Nash, Weill) – 4:25
  5. "We'll Be Together Again" (Fischer, Laine) – 4:24
  6. "All or Nothing at All" (Altman, Lawrence) – 5:39
  7. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Mills, Parish) – 4:48
  8. "April in Paris" (Duke, Harburg) – 3:02
  9. "I Wished on the Moon" (Parker, Rainger) – 3:25
  10. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 3:49
  11. "Foggy Day" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:40
  12. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 5:59
  13. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 5:31
  14. "Comes Love" (alternate take, bonus track) – 3:58
  15. "Comes Love" (Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias) – 4:00

CD disc 2

  1. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) – 6:47
  2. "Darn That Dream" (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 6:19
  3. "But Not for Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:48
  4. "Body and Soul" (Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 6:22
  5. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) (instrumental, bonus track) – 6:26
  6. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Parish, Frank Perkins) – 4:29
  7. "Say It Isn't So" (Berlin) – 3:22
  8. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:41
  9. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen, Mercer) – 5:39
  10. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 7:10
  11. "Embraceable You" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 6:47
  12. "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:24
  13. "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 5:37

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References

  1. ↑ All or Nothing at All at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 716. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ↑ "All or Nothing at All". AllMusic . Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  5. ↑ "All Or Nothing At All". www.billieholiday.be. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
  6. ↑ Hentoff, Nat. All Or Nothing At All (Liner Notes).
  7. ↑ Wilson, John S. (November 1, 1959). "JAZZ CATALYST; Hammond's Creative Intercession Is Revealed in Many Recordings". New York Times Times Machine. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
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