All of Me

Billie Holiday · 1941 · Definitive version, March 21, 1941 (OKeh)

Context

Billie Holiday recorded this standard on March 21, 1941 in New York with Eddie Heywood and his orchestra. The master take was released on OKeh 6214; two alternate takes were later released by Columbia.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• God Bless the Child (1941)
• Strange Fruit (1939)
• Fine and Mellow (1939)
• Lover Man (1944)
• What a Little Moonlight Can Do (1935)

Sources

• billieholiday.be

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