High Times Hard Times - Anita O'Day

Softcover
376 pgs.
Illustrated
Hal Leonard, Publ.

In the tradition of the best jazz autobiographies... A fascinating travelogue through the jazz world, filled with vivid images of Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton, Roy Eldridge and Billie Holiday...Her prose is as hip as her music. There's a pithy edge to Ms. Day's narrative, a certain comical 'give 'em hell' combativeness that shines through the book's many dark moments.