Version 54 (Thursday, August 1, 2024)

Extra mp3's were added. There are now 310 mp3 to listen to. Enjoy!

Version 53 (Tuesday, July 30, 2024)

The double CD Banned From New York City - Live 1948-1957, Vol. 1/2 contains 1 previously unreleased but beautiful version of 'Strange Fruit'. The CD was released in 2016, but it wasn't until 2024 that I discovered that it was a completely new version of Strange Fruit! Only now is it getting the attention it deserves.

Version 52 (Thursday, March 17, 2022)

Version 52 with the addition of many new tracks from the 'Lady in Satin' session of 1958, available on the album 'Lady in Satin - Centennial Edition'.

Version 51 (Monday, October 5, 2020)

Version 51 with 3 new tracks: a very nice new version of Strange Fruit, recorded by William Savory. And a 10 minute interview with Billie just after the recording of the Velvet Mood album in 1955. Thank you to Chieo Yamada for bringing this interview to my attention.

Version 50 (Saturday, June 27, 2020)

New 2-CD 'the Complete Storyville Broadcasts' added, unfortunately with some missing announcements. Thank you to Brian Carpenter for pointing me to this CD.

Version 49 (Monday, May 4, 2020)

Webshop improved, 2 albums deleted with the Complete Rare Tracks of the Billie Holiday Discography in MP3 and FLAC format on one DVD.

Version 48 (Saturday, April 13, 2019)

Musician Jonah Jones added to session November 19, 1936. Webshop offers now downloadable albums in MP3 and Flac formats.

Version 47 (Monday, September 10, 2018)

Google analytics added

Version 46 (Sunday, April 22, 2018)

Some small fixes and a new CD/DVD box added.

Version 45 (Monday, April 16, 2018)

The Billie Holiday has been renewed with a better design en improved behaviour. The double-CD Banned From New York City - Live 1948-1957, Vol. 2/2 contains 5 previously unreleased songs from the 1954-Mar-07 conecrt at the Hi-Hat Club in Boston. Also all 9 volumes of the 'Rare tracks from the BHD' are available on 1 DVD disc in Mp3 or Flac lossless format.

Version 44 (Sunday, April 15, 2018)

The Billie Holiday has been renewed with a better design en improved behaviour. The double-CD Banned From New York City - Live 1948-1957, Vol. 2/2 contains 5 previously unreleased songs from the 1954-Mar-07 conecrt at the Hi-Hat Club in Boston.

Version 43 (Monday, October 3, 2016)

Two tracks on the Masters of Jazz vol.24 were incorrect.

Version 42 (Sunday, June 19, 2016)

The Perfect Complete Collection on vinyl is added. Thanks to Lawrence Collins for providing the information.

Version 41 (Sunday, May 29, 2016)

Some typo's fixed in names of musicians and sessions, thanks to Dexter Edge. All dates are now rendered in US-localized style.

Version 40 (Thursday, July 5, 2012)

Michel Fontanes recently released volume 27 of the Master in Jazz collection with 44 new recordings made during the "Lady in Satin" sessions. Also all 26 previous releases of the "Masters in Jazz" series are edited or added.

Version 39 (Monday, December 12, 2011)

Thanks to Theo Kuijpers: after seven years, Theo found 2 new recordings of Billie Holiday recorded at Leonard Feather's party. Billie sings two tracks and is accompanied by Helin Merril on the piano. From the website http://http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com: "I usually don't refer to YouTube here, except for some notable exceptions. And this is the case. Billie Holiday & Helen Merrill singing "You Go To My Head" together in November 1956 (at Leonard Feather's home at 340 Riverside Drive in New York), with the man himself (jazz's most important historian ever) at the piano. A treasure!"

Version 38 (Tuesday, October 27, 2009)

Again, Many thanks to Ruud "Billie Fan" Baas for collecting old LP's and new CD's with material of Billie Holiday. I hope we will continue working together on this unique website.

Version 37 (Sunday, August 3, 2008)

I want to thank Ruud "BillieFan" Baas and Bo Lindqvist for sending information of many old 7-inch EP's. It's great that the discography gets enriched with these classic albums. Also many thanks to Theo Kuipers for all the new pictures (200+) of Billie Holiday.

Version 36 (Sunday, December 16, 2007)

Update 36 includes many new albums. I want to thank Ruud "BillieFan" Baas and his wife Ans for all the hard work you have done last year. It took a long while before I managed to make this new version because of our movement to Arnhem but I hope we will continue our work on this great website. Also many thanks to Bo Lindqvist for the corrections on the Columbia tracks on various albums.

Version 35 (Saturday, June 2, 2007)

Update 35 includes the new Billie Holiday Discography 'Billie Holiday on DVD'. After years of research and technical problems I am very proud to present this DVD with the complete video footage of Billie Holiday collected on 1 DVD. Especially my favorite `Count Basie` sequence of august 1950 is of very high quality, thanks to Ruud ‘BillieFan’ Baas. Many, many thanks for the material!

Version 34 (Monday, March 12, 2007)

This update has new announcements and a lot of updates on the Billie Holiday Discography CD's: the 6-pack is extended to a 9-pack. Tracks from the 'Broadcast Performances Vol. 1 & 2 & 3' are now integrated into the 9-pack. Also all the 219 tracks of the new pack are in chronological order.

Version 33 (Tuesday, October 31, 2006)

The new version of the discography contains more than 1000 photo's (thanks to Theo Kuijpers), almost 20 new albums (thanks to Ruud 'Billiefan' Baas), improved images of albumcovers (thanks to Ans) and a couple of added 'Announcements' in various sessions (thanks to Theo and myself).

Version 32 (Saturday, April 8, 2006)

A update with new photo's of Billie. Some of these photo's are coming from video material of her movie and TV appearances. Thanks to Theo Kuijpers for finding all these new pictures. Also the DVD 'The Ultimate Collection' was added. This DVD is special because it contains the complete footage from 'What a little moonlight can do' from 1958 but even better, it contains like no other DVD the complete registration of the 'Stars of Jazz (TV)' form august 13, 1956 in very good quality!

Version 31 (Saturday, April 1, 2006)

We finally crossed the border of 1000 albums!!! Ruud and Ans: Many, many thanks for all this work!!!

Version 30 (Thursday, January 19, 2006)

Theo Kuipers found another 160 photo's of Billie Holiday and these were added to this new version. Thank you very much for all the research you did on these photo's. The site also became a new and fresh layout. I hope you like it. Because of a re-design, the Billie Holiday Discography Site is now allmost entirely W3C-Valid! You can view it now whit many other browsers including Mozilla FireFox. Even better: It is optimized for Firefox!

Version 29 (Friday, August 12, 2005)

Yesterday I received the 12 CD-Box 'Perfect Complete Collection' from amazon.de. I noticed some differences with the data in the Billie Holiday Discography database and synchronized the database with the information from this CD-Box.

Version 28 (Saturday, April 23, 2005)

11 new albums were added thanks to Ruud "BillieFan" Baas (Halfweg, The Netherlands), plus 150 new foto's and comments were added tanks to Theo Kuijpers (Den Bosch, The Netherlands). Thank you to my Billie Holiday friends!

Version 27 (Friday, March 25, 2005)

43 albums were added in version 27. Bo Lindqvist from Sweden found beautifull antique and rare vinyl records in his collection and informed the Billie Holiday Discography about it: Thank you Bo for helping. Also thank you for you critical comments on the 10CD-Box "Lady Day: Complete on Columbia": Many of the supposed 'alternate takes' are in fact 'master takes' and this drama hasn't ended yet…
Also many thanks to Theo Kuijpers from the Netherlands for your research on the Billie Holiday Photo's: Until now, these photo's were the missing part on the site, but not anymore. And last but not least: many thanks to Ruud "BillieFan" Baas for the information of new albums and all the corrections on existing albums and missing albumcovers.
I hope the four of us together will reach the magic mark of 1000 albums!

Version 26 (Saturday, February 12, 2005)

Another 41 new albums in version 26. Ruud 'BillieFan' Baas has to dig deeper in his record collection but he still finds new stuff: many thanks for all this work! Furthermore, a update of volume 2 of the 'Rare tracks of the Billie Holiday Discography' thanks to the sharp eye of Dan Brown from London. He discovered a wrong version (october 1946) of the song 'Travlin Light' on this volume: the right version is the one from june 1942. Thank you , Dan.

Version 25 (Wednesday, November 17, 2004)

Only 165 albums left to reach the magic marker of 1000 Billie Holiday album's, thanks to the hard work of Ruud 'BillieFan' Baas. Special thanks for using Ruud's info about the musicians that played with Billie Holiday.

Version 24 (Saturday, October 30, 2004)

Thanks to Theo Kuijpers for finding the most interesting new Billie Holiday CD for years: Finaly there is a CD with new material of great quality that was never issued on CD or vinyl before! Also thanks to Corinna Blaumond from Berlin for sending information of new albums using the BHD database.

Version 23 (Friday, October 15, 2004)

'Billiefan' Ruud keeps the fire burning and sended over 50 albums: Thank you very much. Also a contribution from Finland: Jarmo Lehtovaara was the first who sended me albuminformation in XML-format generated by the BHD userdatabase. Thanks for using the database. In the next version a new session will be added: Theo Kuijpers has found some new information!

Version 22 (Saturday, September 4, 2004)

A new version 18 of the series "Masters of Jazz" included (Thanks Michel Fontanes), and a lot of new albums from Ruud "BillieFan" Baas from the Netherlands: Thanks again for all this work!

Version 21 (Thursday, April 22, 2004)

Another quantumleap reached: over 700 albums of Billie Holiday on the Billie Holiday Discography Site. Many many thanks to Ruud "BillieFan" Baas for sending all this information and for the motivation to carry on. Heading for 800!

Version 20 (Sunday, November 16, 2003)

The first version with information about Billie Holiday on film/video/DVD. Many thanks to "Billie Fan" Ruud for the information of 30+ new LP's.

Version 19 (Thursday, September 11, 2003)

Many thanks to Ruud for the information of lots of new CD's and LP's and to Theo for his investigations to the new interviews first issued in the documantary 'Billie on Billie'. Also thanks to Per-Olov Alfredsson for his corrections. SPECIAL THANKS to Jean-Jacques Becciolini from Switserland for offering the 2 possible NEW Billie Holiday songs.

Version 18 (Saturday, July 26, 2003)

Many thanks to Ruud for the information of 37 new CD's and LP's.

Version 17 (Monday, June 30, 2003)

Many thanks to Ruud for the information of 60 new CD's and LP's: I believe there is no greater Billie Holiday CD collector in the world. Also I would like to thank Theo Kuijpers for all his information, LP material (beautifull souding LP's that I still have to digitalize…) and Video's and DVD's that I borrowed last year: without his help the Billie Holiday Discography Site wouldn't have 500+ albums at her first anniversary.

Version 16 (Saturday, May 3, 2003)

Many thanks to Ruud for the information of 18 new CD's.

Version 15 (Saturday, April 12, 2003)

Thanks to Theo Kuijpers, 11 new sessions were added. These sessions are mentioned in Jack Millar's "Fine and Mellow" and all contain unissued tracks. Also thanks to Theo for all the scanned LP-covers. Thanks to Ruud for the information of 3 new CD's.

Version 14 (Saturday, March 15, 2003)

3 volumes of the "Legendary Unissued & Rare Masters" are added (Thanks to "Billiefan" Ruud). The "New Orleans" sessions are updated: Now there are 6 sessions related to "New Orleans". The sessions are logically split based on 'personel' and 'date'. The 1st session is with only voice and piano (Charly Beal), the 2nd with Louis Armstrong and his Band, the 3th with Louis Armstrong and his Band and a Choir, and the 4th with Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra. The 5th and 6th sessions were recorded a few weeks later: the 5th session is with Louis Armstrong and his Band, and the 6th with Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra. The tracks from the "New Orleans" DVD were added to these sessions based on the instrumental setup of the sessions.

Version 13 (Saturday, March 1, 2003)

The playing times of all Billie Holiday songs were updated based on the original playing times of her CD's. 2 new tracks are added: On both tracks Billie doesn't sing, but these are tracks from the same session so that’s why I mention these tracks.

Version 12 (Saturday, January 11, 2003)

Six new tracks are added: 4 tracks from the DVD of the movie "New Orleans" and the complete sequence of "A symphony in black" were added to the discography. Also the Carnegie concerts from 1946 were updated ("Fine and Mellow" stated wrong tracks and sessiondates). Six of the new albums on the BHD are albums which contain all the rare tracks that are not on the standard Billie Holiday albums (i.e. Complete on Columbia/Decca/Commodore/Verve/Storyville, Broadcast Perf. Vol 1/2/3, Stratford, Live In Europe an Lady in Satin). These albums are very usefull if you want to collect all the music of Billie Holiday: These 6 CD's together with the standard albums will make your collection complete! you can buy these CD's at the Billie Holiday Site only.

Version 11 (Sunday, December 1, 2002)

The japanese 12 CD-box with live performances is added. Thanks to Len for the information on this box. Also added a second box with the decca recordings.

Version 10 (Thursday, November 21, 2002)

Thanks to Theo Kuijpers, the discography is now largely extended with more than 50 albums on vinyl. Further a new session (Kopenhagen, Danmark, 18-jan-1954) with 10 unissued tracks is added.

Version 9 (Monday, October 28, 2002)

The japanese 12 CD-box with live performances is added. Thanks to Len for the information on this box. Also added a second box with the decca recordings.

Version 8 (Sunday, October 13, 2002)

Now, the discography contains the complete italian JUTB CD-Box with 12 CD's of Billie's Live performances. Some of the tracks on this box are realy hard to find. There is also a japanese box added with the commodore sessions, and Volume 17 of de series 'Masters of Jazz' with the newly found 'That Ole Devil'. Also added is a LP named 'On the Air' (Totum1037) with the complete radiobroadcasts of 25-6-1944 and 13-1-1947. Due to this addition, the session 25-6-1944 has been updated with 3 new tracks, and the session of 13-1-47 with 2 new tracks: All 5 are 'Radio Broadcasts', so no new songs of Billie. Many Thanks to Theo Kuijpers for the albums and all the information.

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Version 1 (Sunday, July 28, 2002)