Velvet Mood | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Billie Holiday |
Cover: | Velvet Mood Billie Holiday.jpg |
Released: | 1956 |
Recorded: | August 23 & 25, 1955 |
Studio: | Los Angeles, CA |
Genre: | Jazz, swing |
Length: | 37:41 |
Label: | Clef MG C-713 (Verve MG V-8096) |
Producer: | Norman Granz |
Prev Title: | Music for Torching |
Prev Year: | 1955 |
Next Title: | The Lady Sings |
Next Year: | 1956 |
Velvet Mood: Songs by Billie Holiday 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 also resulted in all the material for her previous album Music for Torching (MG C-669).[2]
Billie Holiday - Vocals
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet
Jimmy Rowles - Piano, celesta on "I Hadn't Anyone Till You", "Everything I Have Is Yours", and "What's New?"
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Alex de Paula - Artwork