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3) Billie
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday, and her would-be biographer.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Silence. That was the response at Cafe Society the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but her song wasn't either of those things. It was a song about injustice, and it would change her life forever. Discover how two outsiders -- Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants -- combined their...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, Szwed considers how Holiday's life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy.
Author
Publisher
One Peace Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, had a troubled life: a childhood in poverty, brothels, jail, broken love, and a dependence on alcohol and heroin. Her first performances in the night clubs of prohibitionist America was where her pioneering vocal style was born--later to become a lasting influence on jazz, pop, and modern music to this day. Performing with jazz legends such as Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie,...
Series
Publisher
Gale Research Inc
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Biographical profiles of important and influential persons of African heritage who form the international black community. Covers persons of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields providing coverage of names found in today's headlines as well as selected individuals from earlier in this century whose influence continues to have an impact on contemporary life.
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