Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday

$14.95

SKU: 9781642730210
Author: Parisi, Paolo
Publication Date: 05/15/2019
Publisher: One Peace Books
Binding: Paperback
Media: Book
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Description

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.