Velvet Mood

Studio album by Billie Holiday

Released

1956

Recorded

August 23, 25 1955

Genre

Vocal jazz

Length

37:41

Label

Clef Records (Verve Records)

Producer

Norman Granz

Billie Holiday chronology

Music For Torching
(1955)

Velvet Mood
(1956)

The Lady Sings
(1956)

Velvet Mood (subtitled Songs by Billie Holiday) (MGC 713) is an album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in 1956 on Clef Records.^[1] The music was recorded over the course of two sessions in Los Angeles, two days apart, which had also resulted in all the material for her previous album Music for Torching (MGC 669) .^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

Track Listing

Side one

"Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Irving Gordon) - 5:37
"When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) - 4:58
"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (Sam H. Stept, Sidney Clare, Bee Palmer) - 4:23
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:48

Side two

"I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:55
"What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) – 4:20
"I Hadn't Anyone Till You" (Ray Noble) – 4:05
"Everything I Have Is Yours" (Burton Lane, Harold Adamson) – 4:33

Personnel

Billie Holiday - Vocals
Benny Carter - Alto Saxophone
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet
Jimmy Rowles - Piano (celeste on I Hadn't Anyone Till You and What's New?)
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Larry Bunker - Drums
John Simmons - Bass

Alex de Paula - artwork

References

↑ Velvet Mood, Discogs.com, accessed Feb 13, 2016
↑ Billie Holiday sessionography, the Jazz Discography Project, accessed Feb 13, 2016
↑ Velvet Mood at Allmusic

Billie Holiday

Discography Awards and nominations

Albums	Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude An Evening with Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday at JATP Stay with Me Music for Torching Velvet Mood Lady Sings the Blues Body and Soul Songs for Distingué Lovers Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport All or Nothing at All Lady in Satin Last Recordings The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 Remixed and Reimagined

Songs	"Ain't Nobody's Business" "As Time Goes By" "Billie's Blues" "Blue Moon" "Body and Soul" "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" "Don't Explain" "Easy Living" "Embraceable You" "Everything Happens for the Best" "Everything Happens to Me" "Fine and Mellow" "Gloomy Sunday" "God Bless the Child" "Good Morning Heartache" "I Cover the Waterfront" "I Loves You, Porgy" "I Thought About You" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Get By" "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" "Just One of Those Things" "Lady Sings the Blues" "Left Alone" "Love for Sale" "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" "Me, Myself, and I" "Miss Brown to You" "My Man" "Moonlight in Vermont" "Night and Day" "No More" "Now or Never" "Our Love Is Different" "P.S. I Love You" "Pennies from Heaven" "Please Don't Do It Here" "Preacher Boy" "Sophisticated Lady" "Stormy Blues" "Strange Fruit" "Summertime" "Too Marvelous for Words" "Trav'lin' Light" "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" "What Is This Thing Called Love?" "Who Needs You (Baby)" "Why Was I Born?" "Willow Weep for Me" "You Go to My Head"

Videography	The Emperor Jones Symphony in Black New Orleans Sugar Chile Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet The Sound of Jazz

Related topics	"Angel of Harlem" Lady Sings the Blues (book) Lady Sings the Blues (film) Lady Sings the Blues (soundtrack)

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