All or Nothing at All (album)

All or Nothing at All
Studio album by Billie Holiday
Released	1958
Recorded	1956 August, 1957 January
Genre	Jazz, vocal jazz
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, recorded in 1956 and 1957 and released by Verve Records in 1958.

A later 2 CD re-issue 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. 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" (Berlin) – 3:22
6. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:41

CD re-issue / compilation

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

Personnel

• Billie Holiday – vocals
• Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
• Ben Webster – tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Rowles – piano
• Barney Kessel – guitar
• Red Mitchell – bass
• Joe Mondragon – bass
• Alvin Stoller – drums

Other versions

• All Or Nothing At All (LP),Verve Records,US 1959
• All Or Nothing At All (LP, RE),Verve Records,Spain 2010
• All Or Nothing At All(LP, Album, RE),Verve Records,France 2011
• All Or Nothing At All (LP),Verve Records, Analogu Productions US 2012
• All Or Nothing At All (LP, RE, Album),WaxTime,Europe 2012
• All Or Nothing At All (LP, Album, RE),Verve Records US

References

• Verve MGV 8329

1. All or Nothing at All (album) at AllMusic