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Velvet Mood
Studio album by Billie Holiday
Released	1956
Recorded	August 23 & 25, 1955
Studio	Los Angeles, CA
Genre	Jazz, swing
Length	37:41
Label	Clef MG C-713 (Verve MG V-8096)
Producer	Norman Granz
Billie Holiday chronology
Music for Torching (1955) Velvet Mood (1956) The Lady Sings (1956)

Velvet Mood: Songs by Billie Holiday is an album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, released in 1956 on Clef Records.^[1] The music was recorded over the course of two sessions in Los Angeles, two days apart, which also resulted in all the material for her previous album Music for Torching (MG C-669).^[2]

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

1. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Irving Gordon) - 5:37
2. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) - 4:58
3. "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (Sam H. Stept, Sidney Clare, Bee Palmer) - 4:23
4. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:48

1. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:55
2. "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) – 4:20
3. "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" (Ray Noble) – 4:05
4. "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Burton Lane, Harold Adamson) – 4:33

Billie Holiday - Vocals

Benny Carter - Alto saxophone

Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet

Jimmy Rowles - Piano, celesta on "I Hadn't Anyone Till You", "Everything I Have Is Yours", and "What's New?"

Barney Kessel - Guitar

John Simmons - Bass

Larry Bunker - Drums

Alex de Paula - Artwork