Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John Szwed

Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth

John Szwed

240 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history music reflective slow-paced

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"Revelatory . . . one of the most briskly revealing pieces of jazz biography that I've read." --Richard Brody, The New Yorker When Billie Holiday first stepped into a recording studio in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably ...

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