Music for Torching (album)

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Music for Torching
Billieholidaymusicfortorching.jpg
Studio album by Billie Holiday
Released October 1955
Recorded August 23 & August 25, 1955
Genre Jazz
Length 33:48
Label Clef (Verve Records)
Producer Norman Granz
Billie Holiday chronology
Billie Holiday at JATP
(1954)Billie Holiday at JATP1954
Music for Torching
(1955)
Velvet Mood
(1956)Velvet Mood1956

Music for Torching (MGC 669) is a studio album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in 1955 by Clef Records.[1] It is her first 12 inch LP of original material, after four 10 inch LPs for the same label.

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 followup album Velvet Mood (MGC 713).[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars [3]

Track listing

A side
  1. "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 4:02
  2. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:23
  3. "I Don't Want to Cry Anymore" (Victor Schertzinger) - 3:55
  4. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Victor Young, Ned Washington, Bing Crosby) - 4:29
B side
  1. "A Fine Romance" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 3:35
  2. "Gone with the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) - 3:26
  3. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 5:42
  4. "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" (Irving Berlin) - 4:16

Personnel

Billie Holiday - Vocal
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet
Benny Carter - Alto Saxophone
Jimmy Rowles - Piano
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Larry Bunker - Drums
John Simmons - Bass

References

  1. Music for Torching, Discogs.com, accessed Jan 4, 2016
  2. Billie Holiday sessionography, the Jazz Discography Project, accessed Jan 4, 2016
  3. Music for Torching at Allmusic