Of the 10 CDs contained in the set, 8 are comprised of studio and concert recordings, including the debut Carnegie Hall concert, the Jazz At The Philharmonic recordings, Lady Day's last recording session, and 2 unissued alternate takes. The other 2 CDs contain rehearsal sessions. Very few contemporary artists are worthy of exhaustive, multiple-CD retrospectives, but the jazz legend Billie Holiday certainly makes the cut. This 10-CD set, with a hard-bound, lavishly photographed accompanying book, is a must for serious fans of Lady Day and those with a deep interest in the history of classic jazz.
- 1-1 Body And Soul
- 1-10 Travelin' Light
- 1-11 He's Funny That Way
- 1-12 Norman Granz Announcement
- 1-13 You Better Go Now
- 1-14 You're Driving Me Crazy
- 1-15 Ther Is No Greater Love
- 1-16 I Cover The Waterfront
- 1-17 Norman Granz Announcement
- 1-18 East Of The Sun
- 1-19 Blue Moon
- 1-2 Strange Fruit
- 1-20 You Got To My Head
- 1-21 You Turned The Tables On Me
- 1-22 Easy To Love
- 1-23 These Foolish Things
- 1-24 I Only Have Eyes For You
- 1-25 Solitude
- 1-3 I Cried For You
- 1-4 Fine And Mellow
- 1-5 He's Funny That Way
- 1-6 The Man I Love
- 1-7 Gee Baby, Ain't Good To You?
- 1-8 All Of Me
- 1-9 Billie's Blues
- 2-1 Everything I Have Is Yours
- 2-10 Lover, Come Back To Me
- 2-11 Stormy Weather
- 2-12 Yesterdays
- 2-13 He's Funny That Way
- 2-14 I Can't Face The Music
- 2-15 MC And Leonard Feather Announcements
- 2-16 Blue Moon
- 2-17 All Of Me
- 2-18 My Man
- 2-19 Them There Eyes
- 2-2 Love For Sale
- 2-20 I Cried For You
- 2-21 What A Little Moonlight Can Do
- 2-22 I Cover The Waterfront
- 2-23 Leonard Feather's Announcement
- 2-24 Billie's Blues (Aka "I Love My Man")
- 2-3 Moonglow
- 2-4 Tenderly
- 2-5 If The Moon Turns Green
- 2-6 Remember
- 2-7 Autumn In New York (Common Take-LP)
- 2-8 Autumn In New York (Rare Take-78 Rpm)
- 2-9 My Man
- 3-1 Lover, Come Back To Me
- 3-10 Willow Weep For Me
- 3-11 Stormy Blues
- 3-12 Say It Isn't So
- 3-13 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
- 3-14 I Wished On The Moon
- 3-15 Always
- 3-16 Everything Happens To Me
- 3-17 Do Nothing 'Till You Hear From Me
- 3-18 Ain't Misbehavin'
- 3-2 How Deep Is The Ocean
- 3-3 What A Little Moonlight Can Do?
- 3-4 I Cried For You
- 3-5 Love Me Or Leave Me
- 3-6 P.S. I Love You
- 3-7 Too Marvelous For Words
- 3-8 Softly
- 3-9 I Thought About You
- 4-1 Nice Work If You Can Get It
- 4-10 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- 4-11 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- 4-12 Discussion; Moonlight In Vermont
- 4-13 Misery
- 4-14 Restless
- 4-15 Moonlight In Vermont
- 4-16 Everything Happens To Me
- 4-17 Discussion
- 4-18 I Don't Want To Cry Any More
- 4-19 I Don't Want To Cry Any More
- 4-2 Discussion; Nice Work If You Can Get It
- 4-20 Discussion; I Don't Want To Cry Any More
- 4-21 Everything Happens To Me
- 4-22 Discussion
- 4-23 When You Are Away, Dear
- 4-24 Discussion
- 4-25 It Had To Be You
- 4-26 The Mood That I'm In
- 4-27 Gone With The Wind
- 4-28 I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
- 4-29 Discussion
- 4-3 Mandy Is Two
- 4-30 A Sunbonnet Blue
- 4-31 (I Don't Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance
- 4-32 Discussion
- 4-33 I'm Walkin' Through Heaven With You
- 4-34 Discussion
- 4-35 Just Friends
- 4-36 The Nearness Of You
- 4-37 Discussion
- 4-38 It's Too Hot For Words
- 4-39 They Say
- 4-4 Prelude To A Kiss
- 4-40 I Won't Believe It
- 4-5 I Must Have That Man!
- 4-6 Jeepers Creepers
- 4-7 Jeepers Creepers
- 4-8 Discussion; Jeepers Creepers
- 4-9 Discussion; Jeepers Creepers
- 5-1 I Don't Want To Cry Any More (Tk 1 - Fs)
- 5-10 When Your Lover Has Gone
- 5-11 Gone With The Wind
- 5-12 Studio Talk
- 5-13 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- 5-14 It Had To Be You
- 5-15 Studio Talk
- 5-16 Nice Work I You Can Get It
- 5-17 Come Rain Or Come Shine
- 5-18 I Got A Right To Sing The Blues
- 5-19 What's News
- 5-2 I Don't Want To Cry Any More (Tk 2 - Mst)
- 5-20 A Fine Romance (Tk 1 - Inc)
- 5-21 A Fine Romance (Tk 2 - Alt)
- 5-22 A Fine Romance (Tk 3 - Fs)
- 5-23 A Fine Romance (Tk 4 - Inc)
- 5-24 A Fine Romance (Tk 5 - Inc)
- 5-25 A Fine Romance (Tk 6 - Fs)
- 5-26 A Fine Romance (Tk 7 - Inc)
- 5-27 A Fine Romance (Tk 8 - Mst)
- 5-28 Studio Talk
- 5-29 I Hadn't Anyone Till You
- 5-3 Studio Talk: Prelude To A Kiss (Tk 1 - Fs)
- 5-4 Studio Talk: Prelude To A Kiss (Tk 2 - Inc)
- 5-5 Prelude To A Kiss (Tk 3 - Mst)
- 5-6 (I Don't Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance
- 5-7 When Your Lover Has Gone (Tk 1 - Inc)
- 5-8 Studio Talk: When Your Lover Has Gone (Tk 3 - Mst)
- 5-9 Studio Talk
- 6-1 I Get A Kick Out Of You
- 6-10 Strange Fruit
- 6-11 Discussion: God Bless The Child
- 6-12 Discussion
- 6-13 God Bless The Child
- 6-14 God Bless The Child
- 6-15 Discussion
- 6-16 God Bless The Child
- 6-17 One Never Knows, Does One?
- 6-18 Discussion
- 6-19 Beer Barrel Polka (Aka "Roll Out The Barrel")
- 6-2 Everything I Have Is Yours
- 6-20 Some Of These Days
- 6-21 A Yiddishe Momme
- 6-22 A Yiddishe Momme
- 6-23 Discussion
- 6-24 Lady's Back In Town
- 6-25 Discussion
- 6-26 Discussion
- 6-27 One Never Knows, Does One?
- 6-28 Discussion
- 6-29 (Unknown Title)
- 6-3 Isn't This A Lovely Day
- 6-4 Discussion: Misery
- 6-5 Israel
- 6-6 Misery
- 6-7 Discussion
- 6-8 I Must Have That Man!
- 6-9 Discussion
- 7-1 Travelin' Light
- 7-10 Cheek To Cheek
- 7-11 III Wind
- 7-12 Speak Low
- 7-13 We'll Be Together Again
- 7-14 All Or Nothing At All
- 7-15 Sophisticated Lady
- 7-16 April In Paris
- 7-2 I Must Have That Man?
- 7-3 Some Other Spring
- 7-4 Lady Sings The Blues
- 7-5 Stranger Fruit
- 7-6 God Bless The Child
- 7-7 Good Morning Heartache
- 7-8 No Good Man
- 7-9 Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
- 8-1 Lady Sings The Blues (With Reading From Lady Sings The Blues)
- 8-10 Yesterdays
- 8-11 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- 8-12 I'll Be Seeing You
- 8-13 Reading From Lady Sings The Blues
- 8-14 My Man
- 8-15 I Cried For You
- 8-16 Fine And Mellow
- 8-17 I Cover The Waterfront
- 8-18 What A Little Moonlight Can Do
- 8-19 I Wished On The Moon
- 8-2 Lady Sings The Blues
- 8-20 Moonlight In Vermont
- 8-21 A Foggy Day
- 8-22 I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Stereo)
- 8-23 Just One Of Those Things (Tk 7 - Inc)
- 8-24 Studio Talk
- 8-25 Just One Of Those Things (Tk 8 - Mst) (Stereo)
- 8-26 Studio Talk
- 8-27 Come Love (Tk 1 - Alt)
- 8-28 Come Love (Tk 2 - Fs)
- 8-29 Come Love (Tk 3 - Fs)
- 8-3 Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
- 8-30 Come Love (Tk 4 - Mst)
- 8-4 Travelin' Light (With Reading From Lady Sings The Blues)
- 8-5 Reading From Lady Sings The Blues
- 8-6 Billie's Blues (Aka "I Love My Man")
- 8-7 Body And Soul
- 8-8 Reading From Lady Sings The Blues
- 8-9 Don't Explain
- 9-1 Day In, Day Out (Stereo)
- 9-10 Studio Talk; Say It Isn't So (Tk 1 - Inc)
- 9-11 Say It Isn't So (Tk 2 - Mst)
- 9-12 Studio Talk; Our Love Is Here To Stay (Tk 1 - Fs)
- 9-13 Our Love Is Here To Stay (Tk 2 - Mst)
- 9-14 Studio Talk; One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (Tk 1 - Fs)
- 9-15 One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (Tk 2 - Inc)
- 9-16 One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (Tk 3 - Mst) (Stereo)
- 9-17 They Can't Take That Away From Me
- 9-18 Embraceable You
- 9-19 Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
- 9-2 Darn That Dream
- 9-20 Gee Baby, Ain't Good To You?
- 9-3 But Not For Me
- 9-4 Body And Soul
- 9-5 Studio Talk
- 9-6 Just Friends (Instrumental)
- 9-7 Studio Talk
- 9-8 Stars Fell On Alabama (Tk 1 - Inc)
- 9-9 Stars Fell On Alabama (Tk 2 - Mst) (Stereo)
- 10-1 Willis Conover Announcement
- 10-10 Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good With Connover Announcement
- 10-11 Leonard Feather Announcement
- 10-12 I Wished On The Moon
- 10-13 Lover Man
- 10-14 All The Way
- 10-15 It's Not For Me To Say
- 10-16 I'll Never Smile Again
- 10-17 Just One More Chance
- 10-18 When It's Sleepy Time Down South
- 10-19 Don't Worry About Me
- 10-2 Johnny Mercer Announcement
- 10-20 Sometimes I'm Happy
- 10-21 You Took Advantage Of Me
- 10-22 There'll Be Some Changes Made
- 10-23 'Deed I Do
- 10-24 All Of You
- 10-25 Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
- 10-3 Fanfare From Oh, Lady Be Good
- 10-4 Nice Work If You Can Get It
- 10-5 Willow Weep For Me
- 10-6 My Man
- 10-7 Lover, Come Back To Me
- 10-8 Lady Sings The Blues
- 10-9 What A Little Moonlight Can Do