Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill
By: Jerry Dantzic, Grayson Dantzic ; a reflection by Zadie Smith
Contributors: Dantzic, Grayson, author; Smith, Zadie, writer of introduction
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780500544655
Subjects: Portrait photography; Pictorial works
Description: In 1957, New York photojournalist Jerry Dantzic spent time with the iconic singer Billie Holiday during a week-long run of performances at the Newark, New Jersey, nightclub Sugar Hill. The resulting images offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Billie with her family, friends, and her pet chihuahua, Pepe.
Table of contents: title: Crazy they call me : on looking at Jerry Dantzic's photos of Billie Holiday /; title: by Zadie Smith -- Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill, Newark, New Jersey, April 16-21, 1957 -- Billy Holiday at the 2nd New York Jazz Festival, Randall's Island, August 24, 1957 -- Jerry Dantzic's Billie Holiday / by Grayson Dantzic.