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Tables of Contents for Billie Holiday Companion
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Lady Day
xix
Whitney Balliett
PART ONE: GOD BLESS THE CHILD: Memoirs
Lady Day
3
15
Leonard Feather
Remembering Billie
18
3
Buck Clayton
Billie at Cafe Society
21
8
John Chilton
A Crucial Engagement
29
5
Bud Kliment
Billie Holiday in England: 1953
34
21
Max Jones
PART TWO: WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO: Billie Holiday in Performance and in Her Own Words
Billie Holiday: Storyville, Boston
55
1
Dom Cerulli
Jazz Singing: Pure and Simple
56
1
John S. Wilson
Lady Day Has Her Say
57
5
Leonard Feather
The Willis Conover Interview
62
9
PART THREE: ME, MYSELF, AND I: Billie Holiday on Record and in Print
Early Recordings
71
4
John Hammond
Dan Morgenstern
The Golden Years
75
6
Ralph J. Gleason
A Lady Named Billie and I
81
8
Milt Gabler
Lady Gets Her Due/The Complete Lady
89
10
Gary Giddins
Miss Holiday
99
4
Whitney Balliett
Lady in Satin and Holiday's Last Recordings
103
5
Glenn Coulter
Indigenous Music
108
2
Nat Hentoff
Lady Sings the Blues
110
7
Orrin Keepnews
PART FOUR: DON'T EXPLAIN: Billie Holiday and Her Contemporaries
The Female Singers
117
4
Joachim E. Berendt
Lady Day ... Billie Holiday
121
10
Will Friedwald
The Great American Popular Singers
131
8
Henry Pleasants
There Was No Middle Ground with Billie Holiday
139
14
Leslie Gourse
PART FIVE: STRANGE FRUIT: Legacies
The Real Lady Day
153
7
Nat Hentoff
Billie Holiday: Sleepless Nights
160
8
Elizabeth Hardwick
The Man Who Danced with Billie Holiday
168
6
Francis Davis
Turning Back the Clock for Lady Day
174
2
Melvin Maddocks
Knowing When to Stop
176
5
Ned Rorem
PART SIX: HEART AND SOUL: Billie Holiday Remembered
Billie Holiday Remembered
181
9
The New York Jazz Museum
Queen of the Blues Is Dead at 44
190
2
James Donahue
Memories
192
3
Jimmy Rowles
Selected Discography
195
2
Permissions
197
4
Index
201