With Billie

Praise

“This addition to the tide of Billie Holiday books is extremely welcome. Nowhere else is the context of her life and work so vividly captured.”
-- Toni Morrison

"At last, a portrait of the artist and person called Billie Holiday. This extraordinary book completes her story."
-- Mike Figgis

“Billie Holiday was — and is — a singer who stays in the mind of everyone who heard her.  Like all jazz musicians, she sang about who she was at the moment and during all that preceded that moment.  Julia Blackburn’s With Billie tells Billie’s own stories of that life and this book becomes part of the music.”
-- Nat Hentoff