Jerry Dantzic: Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill
Jerry Dantzic: Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill
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A vivid, intimate, and largely unseen photographic chronicle of one week in the life of jazz icon Billie Holiday
In 1957, New York photojournalist Jerry Dantzic spent time with the iconic singer Billie Holiday during a week-long run of performances at the Newark, New Jersey, nightclub Sugar Hill. The resulting images offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Billie with her family, friends, and her pet chihuahua, Pepi; playing with her godchild (son of her autobiography’s coauthor, William Dufty); washing dishes at the Duftys’ home; walking the streets of Newark; in her hotel room; waiting backstage or having a drink in front of the stage; and performing. The years and the struggles seem to vanish when she sings; her face lights up. Later that same year, Dantzic photographed her in color at the second New York Jazz Festival at Randall’s Island. Only a handful of the photographs in the book have ever been published. In her text, Zadie Smith evokes Lady Day herself and shows us what she sees as she inhabits these images and reveals what she is thinking. 90 illustrationsAll Editions
Hardcover, 3rd Edition
ISBN13: 9780500544655
THAMES AND HUDSON, 2017
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