Blues For Lady Day

Author : Paolo Paolo
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781642730425

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Blues for Lady Day by Paolo Paolo Pdf

Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, had a troubled life: a childhood in poverty, brothels, jail, broken love, and a dependence on alcohol and heroin. Her first performances in the night clubs of prohibitionist America was where her pioneering vocal style was born—later to become a lasting influence on jazz, pop, and modern music to this day. Performing with jazz legends such as Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Artie Shaw, she became a true American icon. This graphic novel, told through short biographical fragments, is the story of Lady Day.

Author : Billie Holiday,William Dufty
Publisher : Crown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767923866

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Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday,William Dufty Pdf

Perfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie’s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of “Strange Fruit”; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday’s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.

Author : Lanie Robertson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573681848

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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill by Lanie Robertson Pdf

"Deals with one of the last appearances of Billie Holiday." -- p.7 | May include musicians.

Author : Robert O'Meally
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 0306809591

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Lady Day by Robert O'Meally Pdf

"Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn't overshadowed by the tragic events of her life. O'Meally has written that book," says Entertainment Weekly about this absorbing and authoritative account of the greatest jazz singer in history. O'Meally emphasizes Holiday's artistry and training rather than her personal miseries, and he uses voluminous archival material to correct common myths about Holiday. Chronicling her rigorous musical apprenticeship in Baltimore, her reception in New York by Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington, and her work with various musicians, particularly Lester Young, Lady Day is an impassioned testament to Holiday's genius that confirms her place in American jazz.

Author : Amy Novesky
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781328694454

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Mister And Lady Day by Amy Novesky Pdf

Billie Holiday—also known as Lady Day—had fame, style, a stellar voice, big gardenias in her hair, and lots of dogs. She had a coat-pocket poodle, a beagle, Chihuahuas, a Great Dane, and more, but her favorite was a boxer named Mister. Mister was always there to bolster her courage through good times and bad, even before her legendary appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Newton’s stylish illustrations keep the simply told story focused on the loving bond between Billie Holiday and her treasured boxer. An author’s note deals more directly with the singer’s troubled life, and includes a little-known photo of Mister and Lady Day!

Author : Tracy Fessenden
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271087221

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Religion Around Billie Holiday by Tracy Fessenden Pdf

Soulful jazz singer Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique sound, troubled personal history, and a catalogue that includes such resonant songs as “Strange Fruit” and “God Bless the Child.” Holiday and her music were also strongly shaped by religion, often in surprising ways. Religion Around Billie Holiday examines the spiritual and religious forces that left their mark on the performer during her short but influential life. Mixing elements of biography with the history of race and American music, Tracy Fessenden explores the multiple religious influences on Holiday’s life and sound, including her time spent as a child in a Baltimore convent, the echoes of black Southern churches in the blues she encountered in brothels, the secular riffs on ancestral faith in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Jewish songwriting culture of Tin Pan Alley. Fessenden looks at the vernacular devotions scholars call lived religion—the Catholicism of the streets, the Jewishness of the stage, the Pentecostalism of the roadhouse or the concert arena—alongside more formal religious articulations in institutions, doctrine, and ritual performance. Insightful and compelling, Fessenden’s study brings unexpected materials and archival voices to bear on the shaping of Billie Holiday’s exquisite craft and indelible persona. Religion Around Billie Holiday illuminates the power and durability of religion in the making of an American musical icon.

Author : John Szwed
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101614709

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Billie Holiday by John Szwed Pdf

• Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography • Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations of her continue to arrive, most recently in the form of singers like Amy Winehouse and Adele. Most of the writing on Holiday has focused on the tragic details of her life—her prostitution at the age of fourteen, her heroin addiction and alcoholism, her series of abusive relationships—or tried to correct the many fabrications of her autobiography. But now, Billie Holiday stays close to the music, to her performance style, and to the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage. Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, critically acclaimed jazz writer John Szwed considers how her life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy.

Author : Julia Blackburn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307829214

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With Billie by Julia Blackburn Pdf

From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it. Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her addictions, her arrests, and the scandals that would repeatedly put her name in the tabloid headlines of the 1940s and 1950s. Those who knew her learned never to be surprised by what she might do. Her moods and faces were so various that she could seem to be a different woman from one moment to the next. Volatile, unpredictable, Billie Holiday remained, even to her friends, an elusive and perplexing figure. In With Billie, we hear the voices of those people–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 knew what really mattered to her. Reading With Billie, one is convinced that she has only just left the room but will return shortly.

Author : Ken Vail
Publisher : Sanctuary Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015035659740

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Lady Day's Diary by Ken Vail Pdf

Month-by-month chromology of singer's life.

Author : Farah Jasmine Griffin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Blues musicians
ISBN : 9780684868080

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If You Can't be Free, be a Mystery by Farah Jasmine Griffin Pdf

The threads of Billie Holiday's mystique are unraveled in this study of a woman who needed to create art at any cost. Griffin liberates Holiday from stereotypes of black women and pries her away from the male tradition of jazz criticism while presenting Holiday's independent spirit. of photos.

Author : Paolo Parisi
Publisher : Progetto 900
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8876183590

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Blues for lady day by Paolo Parisi Pdf

Author : Jerry Dantzic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780500544655

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Jerry Dantzic: Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill by Jerry Dantzic Pdf

A vivid, intimate, and largely unseen photographic chronicle of one week in the life of jazz icon Billie Holiday 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, Pepi; playing with her godchild (son of her autobiography’s coauthor, William Dufty); washing dishes at the Duftys’ home; walking the streets of Newark; in her hotel room; waiting backstage or having a drink in front of the stage; and performing. The years and the struggles seem to vanish when she sings; her face lights up. Later that same year, Dantzic photographed her in color at the second New York Jazz Festival at Randall’s Island. Only a handful of the photographs in the book have ever been published. In her text, Zadie Smith evokes Lady Day herself and shows us what she sees as she inhabits these images and reveals what she is thinking.

Author : Billie Holiday,William Dufty
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015056371365

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Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday,William Dufty Pdf

This work presents the Billie Holiday story - her rise to the top from the slums and the streets, to the eventual slide down.

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307574442

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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis Pdf

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith−published here in their entirety for the first time−Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is a triumph.

Author : Paolo Parisi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : African American singers
ISBN : 1642730211

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Blues for Lady Day by Paolo Parisi Pdf

Universally regarded as one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, Billie Holiday lived a troubled life fragmented by poverty, jail, heartbreak, and addiction. This hauntingly beautiful graphic novel tells the story of her life, from her first stage appearance in Harlem, to her musical heyday in the 1940s, to her untimely death in 1959. Since her death she has become an icon of music, style and resistance. Her influence is felt in almost all popular music and her story continues to resonate with musicians of all backgrounds.