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Title: Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday by Robert G. O'Meally ISBN: 0-306-80959-1 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 21 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Pure Genius
Comment: The reason this book is so powerful is the perfect
melding of photographs and text.
The author's rich, empathetic text makes plain Billie
Holiday's genius as an artist and, unlike some of the
so-called biographies of her life, don't simplify her to
the point of caricature.
Mr. O'Meally focuses on what makes Billie Holiday special:
her total mastery of her craft and her ability to share
her vision of the world through song.
Rating: 5
Summary: It's her music that made her special. . .
Comment: Tired of all the treatments of Holiday's life in film and print that forget it was her music that made her special, I was delighted to find Professor O'Meally's book. Fascinated with Holiday's life as musician, I had been routinely disappointed whenever I picked up a book or movie in hope of discovering more about her musicianship and less about the tragedies in her life. The book never loses its focus in this respect, making it quite unique.
What made this book even more enjoyable for me to read is that almost ten years ago I was fortunate enough to have taken a class taught by Professor O'Meally. His book conveys the same enthusiasm and passion he had for the subject matter and classes he taught and, no doubt, passed on to his students.
Rating: 4
Summary: Well researched, with attention to her music
Comment: Probably one of the best all-round bios of Lady Day, covering the personal and professional. Pays attention to her musical preferences and reasoning behind her unique recording style
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Title: Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon by Donald Clarke ISBN: 0306811367 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 18 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Lady Sings the Blues/With a Revised Discography by Billie Holiday, William Dufty, Vincent Pelote ISBN: 0140067620 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Strange Fruit : The Biography of a Song by David Margolick, Hilton Als ISBN: 0060959568 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title:Lady Day - The Many Faces of Billie Holiday ASIN: B000056B03 Publisher: Kultur Video Pub. Date: 28 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $26.96 |
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Title: Billie Holiday by Stuart Nicholson ISBN: 1555533035 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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