Stay with Me (Billie Holiday album)

Stay with Me
Studio album by
Released1958 (CD 1991)
RecordedFebruary 14, 1955
(CD bonus tracks: April 14, 1954)
Fine Sound Studios, New York[1]
GenreJazz
Length33:47 (CD 42:27)
LabelVerve
MGV 8302 (511 523-2)
ProducerNorman Granz
Billie Holiday chronology
Songs for Distingué Lovers
(1957)
Stay with Me
(1958)
All or Nothing at All
(1958)

Stay with Me (MGV 8302) is an album by the jazz singer Billie Holiday, accompanied by Tony Scott and his Orchestra. It contains all the material from a session recorded February 14, 1955, in New York City,[2] and released in 1958 on producer Norman Granz's Verve label.[3]

For the CD reissue in 1991 another session was appended, that Granz had previously issued as part of the self-titled Billie Holiday LP on his Clef Record label (10" LP, Clef EPC 224/Verve MGC 690).[4] The recording from April 14, 1954, at the same studio with "Billie Holliday and Her Band", consisted of the Oscar Peterson Trio, Ed Shaughnessy on drums, and trumpeter Charlie Shavers as the only members of both sessions beside Holiday.[5] Beyond that, all tracks were part of many compilations and the complete recording issues of Billie Holiday.[6]