Billie Holiday

The album *Billie Holiday* is the third 10-inch LP album of original material by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released on Clef Records in 1954. The recordings took place in 1952 and April 14, 1954. In 1956, when the 10-inch format was phased out, Clef reissued the contents of this album on two different newly released 12 inch compilation LPs. Five songs were added to *A Recital By Billie Holiday*, and the other three were added to *Solitude*. Her final album would also be given the same title, prior to being changed to *Last Recording* instead. In a 1954 review, *Down Beat* magazine praised the album, saying, "The set is an experience in mounting pleasure that can do anything but increase still further no matter how often the LP is replayed... Speaking of time, Billie's beat and variations thereon never cease to be among the seven wonders of jazz". Two recordings, "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" and "I Cried for You" were also recorded by Holiday in the 1930s with Teddy Wilson's band, at the beginning of her career.