Name: Lady Sings the Blues: The 50Th-Anniversay Edition With a Revised Discography (Harlem Moon Classics)
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Author: Billie Holiday; William Dufty
ISBN: 9780767923866

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Lady Sings the Blues: The 50Th-Anniversay Edition With a Revised Discography (Harlem Moon Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Crown

Author

Billie Holiday; William Dufty

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0767923863

ISBN13

9780767923866

Edition No.

Synopsis "Lady Sings the Blues: The 50Th-Anniversay Edition With a Revised Discography (Harlem Moon Classics) "

Originally released by Doubleday in 1956, Harlem Moon Classics celebrates the publication with the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Billie Holiday’s unforgettable and timeless memoir. Updated with photos and with an insightful introduction and a revised discography, both written by celebrated music writer David Ritz.Lady Sings the Blues is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from 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.

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