Billie Holiday's Best Vinyl Recordings?

The Phil Schapp produced Verve Session recordings. If you can find a good copy of the original edition, you will be amazed by the detail taken in making this collection.  Later editions will sound the same, but all the goodies in the first edition make it collectible.

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Billie's early material(her peak years before addiction took over by the late 50's)

in this 1962 compilation is fantastic. 

Billie Holiday – The Golden Years | Releases | Discogs

I pull mine out now and then.

You guys are the best!

Please keep the recs coming.

"Billie’s early material(her peak years before addiction took over by the late 50’s)"

The collection noted is MONO as is a wealth of great musical content. 

I hope you have given yourself the advantage of a true MONO Cartridge, it can make a small, medium, huge improvement, I’m glad I took advice here and got a Grado ME+.

Grado Mono ME+ $185.

"MONO Cartridge, it can make a small, medium, huge improvement, '

That's a good description of how a mono cart could present itself in one's  own setup.

In this case, it would be interesting to hear what might be missing. These recordings were done in the 30's/40's on 78's with some the BEST  Jazz musicians.

This collection  is a must have for Billie Holliday fans. Included is a booklet with  insight into her dark/tragic life. My 63 year old copy looks and feels like it was printed  yesterday!

From the booklet:

"If you sing Jazz, and you are a woman, you sing some of Billie Holliday. There is no other way to  do it. No vocalist is without  her influence."