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Billie's Blues (Paperback)
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Billie's Blues (Paperback)
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List price R595
Loot Price R522
Discovery Miles 5 220
You Save R73 (12%)
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Anyone who has ever heard a Billie Holiday record knows the sound
of her voice,sad, sexy, always relaxed but securely aware of the
beat. Conveying a poignancy that cut to the heart of a song, she
redeemed even trivial material with her impeccable sense of
dramatic phrasing and time. The well-known tale of her lifelong
battle with drugs has obscured the artistry that has made her one
of the most revered singers of the twentieth century. Everyone from
Frank Sinatra (who in the 1950s called her "unquestionably the most
important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty
years") to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan has recognized the
singularity of her interpretations. The racism that Billie found at
every turn, whether in Artie Shaw's band or in the heart of the
south, immortalized in the chilling song "Strange Fruit," cannot be
overlooked in her biography. Jazz historian John Chilton has told
the story of her short, tragic, influential career with restraint,
correcting many of the more sensational tales she wrote about
herself in Lady Sings the Blues . Buck Clayton, who knew Billie in
the Basie band during the nineteen-thirties, has written a warm and
personal foreword to this fascinating biography of a great American
artist.
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