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15 de abr. de 2024 · Lady Sings The Blues Billie Holiday/William Dufty 180 Pages ISBN: 978-0-241-35129-1 Penguin Modern Classics 2018 For many, Billie Holiday was the greatest of all the jazz singers, while her emotive delivery and tragic persona seemed to embody the early jazz life in all its boho chic and with all its dark undertones.
Hace 8 horas · Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
Hace 6 días · TF: Apart from Lady Sings the Blues, her memoir by as-told-to author William Dufty, Billie Holiday was not a self-chronicler. She didn’t keep a diary or give many interviews. The fullest record she left of her inner life and her experiences is in her music.
17 de abr. de 2024 · Ghost-written by William Dufty from his interviews, the book can be challenged on its inaccuracies, but it has the authenticity of voice: Billie’s voice. It’s a hard read but Billie’s was a hard life: teenage prostitution, abusive men, life under segregation as a Black woman artist, heroin addiction, drinking, and prison.
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16 de abr. de 2024 · Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday; William Dufty This work presents the Billie Holiday story - her rise to the top from the slums and the streets, to the eventual slide down. Call Number: Sc C 85-208
1 de may. de 2024 · William Dufty ( 1975 ); page 136, “Sugar taken every day produces a continuously over-acid condition, and more and more minerals are re-quired from deep in the body in the attempt to to rectify the imbalance. . . so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decay and general weakening begin” And you wonder why so many ...
