With Billie /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First American edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Pantheon Books, [2005] |
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Table of Contents:
- The record sleeve
- The cardboard box
- The facts of childhood
- Freddie Green: 'I'm in your corner, girl!'
- Christine Scott: 'She never bothered with nobody.'
- Skinny 'Rim' Davenport: 'All the old-timers are dead.'
- Mary 'Pony' Kane: 'Around where the happenin's was.'
- Wee Wee Hill: 'I was her stepfather.'
- The pursuit of happiness
- Billie comes to Harlem
- Elmer Snowden: 'She'd call me her daddy.'
- Fanny Holiday and Clara Winston: 'She was a fat thing with big titties.'
- Pop Foster: 'It was only show people.'
- Bobby Henderson: 'The way she handled a fork.'
- Aaron and Claire Lievenson and Irene Kitchings: 'Afternoon of a Faun'
- Ruby Helena: 'She didn't have the right, being who she was.'
- 'Strange fruit'
- Harlem at war
- Lester Young
- Tallulah Bankhead
- James 'Stump' Cross: 'This is Stump Daddy talking.'
- Greer Johnson: 'Baby, will you hold this for me?'
- Jimmy Rowles: 'Oh, I loved her! Oh, how I loved her!'
- Bobby Tucker: 'You're not going to have any trouble with me.'
- John Levy, the bass player: 'I came in on the tail end.'
- The ecstasy of paranoia
- Jimmy Fletcher: 'She was the loving type.'
- Colonel White and Friends: 'A straight business thing.'
- Carl Drinkard: 'We were like a family.'
- Melba Liston: 'Strangers down South.'
- Memry Midgett: 'What tune is this, Memry?'
- Lady Sings the Blues
- Irving Townsend and Ray Ellis: 'She wanted that cushion under her voice.'
- Louis McKay: 'This bitch turns skunky overnight.'
- Endgame
- Earle Zaidins: 'She was very sensitive to bad publicity.'
- Alice Vrbsky: 'A woman of her word.'
- Laughin' to Keep from Cryin.'