All or Nothing at All is the tenth studio album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in 1958 on Verve Records, catalog MGV8329. There are 12 songs on the LP taken from five different recording sessions that took place in 1956 and 1957. Holiday was backed by a "relaxed and understanding" 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."
Album cover art is by David Stone Martin.
Contents
Track listing
Original LP release
LP side 1
"Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:12
"Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:35
"Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 6:14
"Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 4:25
"We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 4:24
"All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) – 5:39
LP side 2
"Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 4:48
"April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg) – 3:02
"I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger) – 3:25
"But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:48
"Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin) – 3:22
"Our Love Is Here to Stay" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:41
Personnel
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
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
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
CD disc 1
"Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Ellington, Russell) – 4:12
"Cheek to Cheek" (Berlin) – 3:35
"Ill Wind" (Arlen, Koehler) – 6:14
"Speak Low" (Nash, Weill) – 4:25
"We'll Be Together Again" (Fischer, Laine) – 4:24
"All or Nothing at All" (Altman, Lawrence) – 5:39
"Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Mills, Parish) – 4:48
"April in Paris" (Duke, Harburg) – 3:02
"I Wished on the Moon" (Parker, Rainger) – 3:25
"Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 3:49
"Foggy Day" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:40
"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 5:59
"Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 5:31
"Comes Love" (alternate take, bonus track) – 3:58
"Comes Love" (Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias) – 4:00
CD disc 2
"Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) – 6:47
"Darn That Dream" (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 6:19