Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues

Softcover
231 pgs.
Harlem Moon, Publisher

Harlem Moon celebrates the original 1956 publication of Billie Holiday's unforgettable and timeless memoir with this fiftieth-anniversary edition. Updated with an insightful introduction and a revised discography, both written by celebrated music writer David Ritz. "Lady Sings the Blues" takes the reader on a fast-moving journey from Holiday's rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood to her emergence on Harlem's club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band.