The Ultimate Collection

Disc 1
1	Miss Brown to You / Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra 3:00
2	What a Little Moonlight Can Do 2:58
3	I Cried for You 3:12
4	Mean to Me 3:08
5	Strange Fruit 3:11
6	Fine and Mellow 3:16
7	God Bless the Child 2:57
8	Trav'lin' Light / Paul Whiteman Orchestra 3:17
9	My Old Flame 3:03
10	I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) 2:59
11	Billie's Blues 3:09
12	He's Funny That Way 3:18
13	Lover Man 3:18
14	Don't Explain 3:23
15	Good Morning Heartache 3:07
16	No Good Man 3:06
17	The Blues Are Brewin' 3:04
18	Solitude 3:10
19	Easy Living 3:12
20	I Loves You Porgy 2:56
21	My Man (Mon Homme) 2:57
22	'Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do 3:19
Disc 2
1	Them There Eyes 2:51
2	You Can't Lose a Broken Heart 3:15
3	You're My Thrill 3:24
4	Crazy He Calls Me 3:04
5	Detour Ahead 3:03
6	These Foolish Things 3:36
7	You Go to My Head 2:56
8	Love Me or Leave Me 2:36
9	Willow Weep for Me 3:07
10	I Thought About You 2:48
11	I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 3:58
12	Come Rain or Come Shine 4:23
13	It Had to Be You 4:03
14	What's New? 4:17
15	Lady Sings the Blues 3:44
16	I Cover the Waterfront Live 3:45
17	Body and Soul 6:20
18	But Not for Me 3:50
19	One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) 5:40
20	I'm a Fool to Want You 3:24
Disc 3
1	Saddest Tale DVD
2	The Blues Are Brewin' / Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra DVD
3	Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans / Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra DVD
4	My Man (Mon Homme) DVD
5	Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone DVD
6	Billie's Blues DVD
7	Fine and Mellow DVD
8	What a Little Moonlight Can Do DVD
9	St. Louis Blues DVD
10	I Cover the Waterfront DVD
11	Swing! Brother, Swing! DVD Audio
12	They Can't Take That Away from Me DVD Audio
13	Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me / All Star Jam Band DVD Audio
14	I'll Get By / All Star Jam Band DVD Audio
15	I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone / Red Norvo & His Orchestra DVD Audio
16	Jeepers Creepers DVD Audio
17	Bonus Materials Bonus Track / DVD

Barnes & Noble

More than 45 years after her death in 1959, Billie Holiday remains our most revered jazz singer. For those unfamiliar with Holiday's exquisite artistry, this superb overview collection is a perfect starting point. Touching on signature performances from the most important labels Holiday recorded for -- Columbia, Decca, Commodore, and Verve -- The Ultimate Collection provides a panoramic view of a brilliant, if troubled, career. Lady Day's extraordinary expressiveness is always apparent, whether she is singing ballads ("God Bless the Child"), blues ("Fine and Mellow"), or rhythm songs ("What a Little Moonlight Can Do"). The DVD provides glorious visual proof of Holiday's captivating presence and in-performance magnetism. Steve Futterman

All Music Guide

Although the title could only have been coined by a marketing department, The Ultimate Collection deserves the highest of praise. It is not only the first American compilation to survey Billie Holiday's entire 25-year career -- and astutely, at that -- but it also includes a DVD that presents the lion's share of her film and TV appearances, a full discography, and an interactive timeline. The audio discs spotlight all of Holiday's most innovative material, from the musically pioneering "Billie's Blues" and "Lover Man," in which she refined the perpetually coarse female blues form and virtually invented the slow-burn torch song, to the socially progressive "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless the Child," wherein she yoked reform concerns to beguiling pop songs and became a master of the protest song. (As it should be, the 1939 of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" seems much more recent than the 1939 when a majority of Southerners felt lynching was justified in case of sexual assault.) The bulk of the material rightly comes from her Verve and Columbia libraries, but there are many inclusions from her breathtaking Decca and Commodore catalogs, as well as a superb version of "Trav'lin Light" from a 1942 Capitol session with accompaniment from (surprise) the outmoded but effective Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Fittingly, the program begins with one of Holiday's first sessions -- in 1933, when she provided a short vocal chorus over a reading of "Miss Brown to You" by Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra -- and it ends, on the DVD portion, with her reprising another 1933 title for the television program Art Ford's Jazz Party one year before her death. John Bush