Billie Holiday
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Holiday's quite candid biography (although some suspect she embellished parts of it) gets a new foreword and revised discography. Whether true or just "mostly "true, based on her continued stature, this title will be wanted by all music collections.--From publisher description.
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The album is the companion 13-song soundtrack to the James Erskine-directed documentary on the breathtaking talent of Billie Holiday. It features her band, the Sonhouse All-Stars, performing her classic works, including I Only Have Eyes for You; God Bless the Child; Strange Fruit; and more. The film features newly unearthed interviews from those who knew Holiday best, Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms, and Count Basie among them.