num_pages: 368
description: Few jazz singers have become icons like Billie Holiday. In With Billie , we hear the voices of those people who knew Billie 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.
language: English
title: With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
titlecomplete: With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
genres: Music, Historical, History, Jazz, African American, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 353
publisher: Vintage Books/Random House, Inc.