With Billie in Mind

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With Billie in Mind
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Studio album by
Teddy Wilson
Released1972
RecordedMay 1972
StudioWARP Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length62:31CD reissue with additional tracks
Label Chiaroscuro
CR 111
Producer Hank O'Neal
Teddy Wilson chronology
The Noble Art of Teddy Wilson
(1969)		With Billie in Mind
(1972)		 Runnin' Wild
(1973)
CD reissue Cover
With Billie in Mind CD.jpg

With Billie in Mind is a solo tribute album by pianist Teddy Wilson featuring tunes associated with Billie Holiday that were recorded in New York City in 1972 and released on the Chiaroscuro label. [1] [2] The album was reissued on CD in 1990 with six additional tracks. [3]

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Scott Yanow of AllMusic states, "Producer Hank O'Neal suggested to the veteran swing pianist Teddy Wilson that he record a set of Billie Holiday tunes since "Lady Day" had cut many of her greatest sides with Wilson in the 1930s. T... Wilson, who is in peak form, clearly enjoyed playing several tunes that he had not performed in years, and he is heard at the top of his game. Classic swing music". [3]

Track listing

  1. "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (Harry Woods) – 4:00
  2. "This Year's Kisses" (Irving Berlin) – 3:29
  3. "When You're Smiling" (Larry Shay, Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin) – 2:12
  4. "Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:14
  5. "Sugar" (Maceo Pinkard, Edna Alexander, Sidney Mitchell) – 3:07
  6. "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Frank Eyton, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 3:30
  7. "If You Were Mine" (Matty Malneck, Johnny Mercer) – 3:12
  8. "Them There Eyes" (Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) – 2:26
  9. "I'll Never Be the Same" (Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Gus Kahn) – 3:49
  10. "I Wished on the Moon" (Ralph Rainger, Dorothy Parker) – 3:33
  11. "Why Was I Born?" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:45
  12. "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Abe Lyman, Arthur Freed) – 3:31 Additional track on CD reissue
  13. "If Dreams Come True" (Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Irving Mills) – 2:33 Additional track on CD reissue
  14. "Fooling Myself" (Peter Tinturin, Jack Lawrence) – 3:10 Additional track on CD reissue
  15. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 3:21 Additional track on CD reissue
  16. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:32 Additional track on CD reissue
  17. "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" (Ahlert, Turk) – 3:10 Additional track on CD reissue
  18. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 2:31
  19. "Miss Brown to You" (Richard A. Whiting, Rainger, Robin) – 3:07
  20. "What a Moon, What a Night, What a Girl" (John Jacob Loeb) – 3:00

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Edwards, D. Eyris, P. & Callahan, M. Both Sides Now: Chiaroscuro Records Discography, accessed July 27, 2018
  2. ↑ Chiaroscuro Catalog: album details, accessed July 27, 2018
  3. 1 2 3 Yanow, Scott. Teddy Wilson: With Billie in Mind – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1522. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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