Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues

The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography
With William Dufty

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Produktbeschreibung

Perfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz

Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon.

We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of Strange Fruit ; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Crown / Harlem Moon
• -50th Anniversary edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 139mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9780767923866
• ISBN-10: 0767923863
• Artikelnr.: 20897119

Autorenporträt

Billie Holiday with William Dufty; Foreword by David Ritz