Billie Holiday Tribute All Stars Live at Newport Jazz Festival, New York City, June 28th, 1979.
-Setlist:
01. Introduction by Jimmy Rowles
02. That Ole Devil Called Love
03, Love Me Or Leave Me
04. George Wein testimony, introductions
05. Why Was I Born
06. Song Intro
07. Romance in the Dark
08. I Must Have That Man
09. Song Intro
10. I'm Pulling Through
11. Song Intro
12. Hamp's Boogie Woogie
13. John Hammond Testimony
14. Teddy Wilson speaks
15. When You're Smiling
16. Song Intro
17. Easy Living
18. Song Intro
19. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
20. George Wein Introduces Buck Clayton
21. Sugar
22. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
23. Now Or Never
24. When Your Lover Has Gone
25. George Wein speaks
26. Billie Holiday Film Clip, Fine And Mellow
-Lineup:
Jimmy Rowles - piano
Milt Hinton - bass
Bobby Rosengarden - drums
Zoot Sims - tenor sax (tracks 2, 3)
Ruby Braff - trumpet (tracks 5, 7, 8, 10, 12)
Wayne Wright - guitar (tracks 5, 7, 8, 10, 12)
George Duvivier - bass (tracks 5, 7, 8, 10, 12)
Ray Bryant - piano (5, 7, 8, 10, 12)
Lionel Hampton - vibraphone (track 7, 8, 10, 12)
Buddy Tate - tenor sax (track 7, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22)
Teddy Wilson - piano (tracks 15, 17, 19, 21, 22)
Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet 15, 17, 19, 21, 22)
Vic Dickenson - trombone (tracks 15, 17, 19, 21, 22)
Jo Jones - drums (tracks 15, 17, 19, 21, 22)
Buck Clayton - trumpet (track 21, 22)
-guest speakers:
George Wein; John Hammond

Billie Holiday, birth name Elinore Harris, byname Lady Day, (born April 7, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 17, 1959, New York City, New York), American jazz singer, one of the greatest from the 1930s to the ’50s.
Eleanora (her preferred spelling) Harris was the daughter of Clarence Holiday, a professional musician who for a time played guitar with the Fletcher Henderson band. She and her mother used her maternal grandfather’s surname, Fagan, for a time; then in 1920 her mother married a man surnamed Gough, and both she and Eleanora adopted his name. It is probable that in neither case did her mother have Eleanora’s name legally changed. The singer later adopted her natural father’s last name and took the name Billie from a favourite movie actress, Billie Dove. In 1928 she moved with her mother from Baltimore, Maryland (where she had spent her childhood), to New York City, and after three years of subsisting by various means, she found a job singing in a Harlem nightclub. She had had no formal musical training, but, with an instinctive sense of musical structure and with a wealth of experience gathered at the root level of jazz and blues, she developed a singing style that was deeply moving and individual.
In 1933 Holiday made her first recordings, with Benny Goodman and others. Two years later a series of recordings with Teddy Wilson and members of Count Basie’s band brought her wider recognition and launched her career as the leading jazz singer of her time. She toured with Basie and with Artie Shaw in 1937 and 1938 and in the latter year opened at the plush Café Society in New York City. About 1940 she began to perform exclusively in cabarets and in concert. Her recordings between 1936 and 1942 marked her peak years. During that period she was often associated with saxophonist Lester Young, who gave her the nickname “Lady Day.”
In 1947 Holiday was arrested for a narcotics violation and spent a year in a rehabilitation centre. No longer able to obtain a cabaret license to work in New York City, Holiday nonetheless packed New York’s Carnegie Hall 10 days after her release. She continued to perform in concert and in clubs outside of New York City, and she made several tours during her later years. Her constant struggle with heroin addiction ravaged her voice, although not her technique.
Holiday’s dramatic intensity rendered the most banal lyric profound. Among the songs identified with her were “Strange Fruit,” “Fine and Mellow,” “The Man I Love,” “Billie’s Blues,” “God Bless the Child,” and “I Wished on the Moon.” The vintage years of Holiday’s professional and private liaison with Young were marked by some of the best recordings of the interplay between a vocal line and an instrumental obbligato. In 1956 she wrote an autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues (with William Dufty), that was made into a motion picture starring Diana Ross in 1972. Holiday’s health began to fail because of drug and alcohol abuse, and she died in 1959.
(britannica.com).