June 8, 2007

Billie Holiday - Fine and Mellow (1957)

Two years before her untimely death, Billie Holiday performed Fine and Mellow with an all-star cast on The Sound of Jazz. The music begins at 7:53.


Roy Eldridge (trumpet) 6th solo
Doc Cheatham (trumpet)
Vic Dickenson (trombone) 3rd solo
Lester Young (tenor sax) 2nd solo
Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax) 1st and 5th solos
Ben Webster (tenor sax)
Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax) 4th solo
Danny Barker (guitar)
Mal Waldron (piano)
Milt Hinton (bass)
Osie Johnson (drums)