. From the Back Cover Jazz historian John Chilton has told the story of her short, tragic, influential career with restraint, correcting many of the more sensationalist tales she wrote about herselfThe conversation between the two animals is enhanced by the expressive artwork.. Anyone belonging to a club with a scientific or academic bent, will recognize the combina
| Title | : | Billie's Blues (A Da Capo paperback) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (143 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306803631 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-9-21 |
| Language | : | English |
. From the Back Cover Jazz historian John Chilton has told the story of her short, tragic, influential career with restraint, correcting many of the more sensationalist tales she wrote about herself
The conversation between the two animals is enhanced by the expressive artwork.. Anyone belonging to a club with a scientific or academic bent, will recognize the combination of passion and quirkiness in the author's new friends.Fans of the casual, digression laden, style James Burke's "Connections" books or of the popular recent books on single subjects, such as Mark Pendergrast's "Uncommon Grounds" and Mark Kurlansky's "Salt", will probably enjoy Oaxaca Journal. He redeems himself a little in the end by getting his daughter's lover out of the country at great risk to himself. Each photo has a few lines of text which all sound very much the same after a few pages (e.g. No doctor would be concerned if his/her patient ate veggies and balanced whole grains and lean proteins. The facts were fun and clear and I will have to reevaluate and learn to appreciate these amazing reptiles.. Just horrendous! Made me question how the hell people let it get that far!I highly recommend reading it and sharing it, to make people aware of what hatred for a culture creates, so it's never ever repeated again!. It is like the old stereoscope viewers in that it shows the photos as if they were three dimensional.The book has a built in douA professional trumpeter and jazz writer, John Chilton is the author of Billie's Blues, Who's Who of Jazz, and with Max Jones, Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story.Jazz historian John Chilton has told the story of her short, tragic, influential career with restraint, correcting many of the more sensational tales she wrote about herself in Lady Sings the Blues. Anyone who has ever heard a Billie Holiday record knows the sound of her voicesad, sexy, always relaxed but securely aware of the beat. The well-known tale of her lifelong battle with drugs has obscured the artistry that has made her one of the most revered singers of the twentieth century. The racism that Billie found at every turn, whether in Artie Shaw’s band or in the heart of the south, immortalized in the chilling song ”Strange Fruit,” cannot be overlooked in her biography. Buck Clayton, who knew Billie in the Basie band during the nineteen-thirties, has written a warm and personal foreword to this fascinating biography of a great American artist.. Everyone from Frank Sinatra (who in the 1950s called her ”unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years”) to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan has recognized the singularity of her interpretations. Conveying a poignancy that cut to the heart of a song, she redeemed even trivial material with her impeccable sense of dramatic phrasing and
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