All or Nothing at All (album)

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1958 studio album by Billie Holiday

All or Nothing at All

Studio album by

Billie Holiday

Released| 1958
Recorded| August 1956, January 1957
Genre| Jazz, vocal jazz
Length| 50:36
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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AllMusic| [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music| [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [3]

All or Nothing at All is a studio album by Billie Holiday, released in 1958 on Verve Records, catalog MGV8329.[4] There are 12 songs on the LP taken from five different recording sessions that took place in 1956 and 1957.[5] Holiday was backed by a "relaxed and understanding"[6] small combo which included the trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and the saxophonist Ben Webster. A 1959 New York Times article noted that Holiday's voice "had become a very limited instrument which she used with the craft and guile of an aging pitcher who can no longer pour his fast one across the plate."[7]

Album cover art is by David Stone Martin.

## Track listing[edit]

### Original LP release[edit]

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" (Irving Berlin) – 3:22
6. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:41

## Personnel[edit]

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

## Other versions[edit]

* 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, Analogue 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

## CD Reissue[edit]

A 2 CD re-issue from 1995 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.

### CD Reissue track listing[edit]

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

## References[edit]

1. ^ All or Nothing at All at AllMusic
2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 716\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. ^ "All or Nothing at All". AllMusic. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
5. ^ "All Or Nothing At All". www.billieholiday.be. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
6. ^ Hentoff, Nat. All Or Nothing At All (Liner Notes).
7. ^ Wilson, John S. (November 1, 1959). "JAZZ CATALYST; Hammond's Creative Intercession Is Revealed in Many Recordings". New York Times Times Machine. Retrieved January 13, 2020.

## External links[edit]

* All or Nothing At All CD reissue on the Internet Archive, includes audio samples and liner notes.

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Billie Holiday

* Discography
* Awards and nominations

Albums|

* Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude
* An Evening with Billie Holiday
* Billie Holiday
* Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic
* 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 Recording
* 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
* Lady Day Swings
* 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"
* "If You Were Mine"
* "I Thought About You"
* "I'll Be Seeing You"
* "I'll Get By"
* "I'll Never Be the Same"
* "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"
* "Stormy Weather"
* "Strange Fruit"
* "Sugar"
* "Summertime"
* "That Ole Devil Called Love"
* "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)"
* "Too Marvelous for Words"
* "Trav'lin' Light"
* "What a Little Moonlight Can Do"
* "What Is This Thing Called Love?"
* "Why Was I Born?"
* "Willow Weep for Me"
* "You Go to My Head"
* "Your Mother's Son-In-Law"

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