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Wishing on the moon : the life and times of Billie Holiday /
New York, NY : Viking, 1994
1st American ed.Format: Book
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Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday /
New York : Pantheon Books, 1998Table of Contents: “…When a woman loves a man : social implications of Billie Holiday's love songs --…”
Format: Book
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Feel free : essays
New York : Penguin Press, 2018Table of Contents: “…"Crazy they call me" : on looking at Jerry Dantzic's photos of Billie Holiday ;…”
Format: Book
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The Oxford companion to jazz
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000Table of Contents: “…Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, and Billie Holiday /…”
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Ebony rhythm; an anthology of contemporary Negro verse,
Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press 1968Table of Contents:Format: Book
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The jazz tradition
New York : Oxford University Press, 1970Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a contemporary art -- Jelly Roll Morton : three-minute form -- Louis Armstrong : style beyond style -- Bix Beiderbecke : the white man's burden -- Coleman Hawkins : some comments on a phoenix -- Billie Holiday : actress without an act -- Duke Ellington : form beyond form -- Count Basie and Lester Young : style beyond swing -- Charlie Parker : the burden of innovation -- Thelonius Monk : modern jazz in search of maturity -- John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet : modern conservative -- Sonny Rollins : spontaneous orchestration -- Horace Silver : the meaning of craftsmanship -- Miles Davis : a man walking -- John Coltrane : a man in the middle -- Ornette Coleman : the meaning of innovation.…”
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Freedom like sunlight : praisesongs for Black Americans
Mankato, Minn. : Creative Editions, 2000Table of Contents: “…. -- "Father Time is coming" : Leroy "Satchel" Paige -- The many and the few : Rosa Parks -- Because my mouth is wide with laughter : Langston Hughes -- "I decided ... to stay up in the air forever" : Jesse Owens -- Baby contralto : Marian Anderson -- My people : Malcolm X -- The black gazelle : Wilma Rudolph -- Lady Day : Billie Holiday.…”
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The musician as interpreter
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007Format: Book
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The origins of cool in postwar America
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Paris, 1949 -- Introduction: The origins of cool -- Lester Young and the birth of cool -- Humphrey Bogart and the birth of noir cool from the Great Depression -- Albert Camus and the birth of existential cool from the idea of rebellion (and the blues) -- Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir : toward a postwar cool for women -- Cool convergences, 1950 : Jazz, noir, existentialism -- A generational interlude : Postwar II (1953-1963) and the shift in cool. …”
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The art of jazz : essays on the nature and development of jazz
New York : Oxford University Press, 1959Table of Contents: “…Johnson / Ross Russell -- Dixieland / Orrin Keepnews -- Bix Beiderbecke / George Avakian -- Bessie Smith / George Avakian -- Recording limits and blues form / Martin Williams -- Three boogie-woogie blues pianists / William Russell -- Big Maceo / Paul Oliver -- Duke Ellington in the nineteen-thirties / Charles Fox -- Duke Ellington / Vic Bellerby -- Billie Holiday / Glenn Coulter -- The genius of Art Tatum / Andre Hodeir -- Charlie Christian / Al Avakian -- Bebop / Ross Russell -- Two notes on modern jazzmen / Paul Bacon -- Looking back at the modern jazz quartet / Max Williams -- The funky-hard bop regresion / Martin Williams -- A basic library of jazz on LP -- Index.…”
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Jazz A-B-Z
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2005Table of Contents: “…Louis Armstrong -- Count Basie -- John Coltrane -- Miles Davis -- Duke Ellington -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Gerry Mulligan -- Coleman Hawkins -- Abdullah Ibn Buhaina -- Jelly Roll Morton -- King Oliver -- Billie Holiday -- Charles Mingus -- Nat "King" Cole -- Ornette Coleman -- Charlie Parker -- Modern Jazz Quartet -- Sonny Rollins -- Sidney Bechet -- Thelonious Monk -- Eubie Blake -- Sarah Vaughan -- Fats Waller -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Lester Young -- Dizzy Gillespie.…”
First edition.
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Keeping time : readings in jazz history
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999Table of Contents: “…/ Louis Armstrong ; Looking back at "The jazz age" / Alain Locke ; Don Redman : portrait of a bandleader / Roi Ottley ; Defining "hot jazz" / Robert Goffin ; An experience in jazz history / John Hammond ; On the road with Count Basie / Billie Holiday ; Jazz at Carnegie Hall / James Dugan and John Hammond ; Duke Ellington explains swing ; Jazz and gender during the war years / Down Beat -- The forties. …”
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At the jazz band ball : sixty years on the jazz scene
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010Table of Contents: “…Are Krall and Monheit jazz singers? -- 25. Billie Holiday, live: a biography in music -- 26. This daughter of jazz is one cool cat -- 27. …”
Format: Book