With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day

Author/Contributor(s):	Blackburn, Julia
Publisher:	Vintage
Date:	4/11/2006
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Few jazz singers have become icons like Billie Holiday. In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people who knew Billie best: piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, lovers and narcs, producers and critics, each recalling intimate stories of the Billie they knew. What emerges is a portrait of a complex, contradictory, enthralling woman, a woman who — contrary to myth — knew what she wanted and what really mattered to her. Julia Blackburn has pieced together an oral history of this jazz great, creating a unique and fascinating view of an astonishing woman.