The Washington Post, September 11th, 1994
WISHING ON THE MOON The Life and Times of Billie Holiday By Donald Clarke Viking. 468 pp. $24.95 THAT BILLIE HOLIDAY was one of the most significant and influential figures in American popular music should require no elaboration. Though admirers of Bessie Smith will file objections, it is the prevailing opinion that she was the first great female singer in jazz, establishing a line of succession that has seen many imitators but no equals. Not merely is her influence felt everywhere in jazz, it extends to many corners of mainstream popular music; singers from Frank Sinatra to Nat "King" Cole to...
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