With Billie

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.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Blackburn
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.04.2006
• EAN: 9780375705809
• ISBN: 978-0-375-70580-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Knopf
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies