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[Jazz & Song] Holiday, Billie. (1915-1959). 1954 Autograph Signature from the Downbeat Club. Bold blue ink signature and inscription "For Paul / Best of Everything / Billie Holiday" on an off white album sheet, about 5 x 3.5 inches, identified in another hand along the upper edge as having been obtained at an August 15, 1954 appearance at the Downbeat Club [San Francisco]. Fine condition, sold together with a recently issued postcard photograph. Revered as one of the greatest and most individual vocalists in the history of blues and jazz, she died from cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 44.
"The two-week engagement at the Downbeat Club went very well. According to the San Francisco Chronicle of 15 August, Billie 'flew into San Francisco last Monday morning...lined up three musicians, rehearsed for five hours on a coffee diet, went back to her hotel for an hour of sleep and then returned to put on four shows before a house that kept crying for more...' Helen Noga, who ran the Downbeat with her husband, spoke of 'all the warnings she received' about Billie and her dope addiction before she arrived, but she said, 'I'll take her any day.'" (Julia Blackburn, "With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day," p. 250)
"The two-week engagement at the Downbeat Club went very well. According to the San Francisco Chronicle of 15 August, Billie 'flew into San Francisco last Monday morning...lined up three musicians, rehearsed for five hours on a coffee diet, went back to her hotel for an hour of sleep and then returned to put on four shows before a house that kept crying for more...' Helen Noga, who ran the Downbeat with her husband, spoke of 'all the warnings she received' about Billie and her dope addiction before she arrived, but she said, 'I'll take her any day.'" (Julia Blackburn, "With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day," p. 250)
[Jazz & Song] Holiday, Billie. (1915-1959). 1954 Autograph Signature from the Downbeat Club. Bold blue ink signature and inscription "For Paul / Best of Everything / Billie Holiday" on an off white album sheet, about 5 x 3.5 inches, identified in another hand along the upper edge as having been obtained at an August 15, 1954 appearance at the Downbeat Club [San Francisco]. Fine condition, sold together with a recently issued postcard photograph. Revered as one of the greatest and most individual vocalists in the history of blues and jazz, she died from cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 44.
"The two-week engagement at the Downbeat Club went very well. According to the San Francisco Chronicle of 15 August, Billie 'flew into San Francisco last Monday morning...lined up three musicians, rehearsed for five hours on a coffee diet, went back to her hotel for an hour of sleep and then returned to put on four shows before a house that kept crying for more...' Helen Noga, who ran the Downbeat with her husband, spoke of 'all the warnings she received' about Billie and her dope addiction before she arrived, but she said, 'I'll take her any day.'" (Julia Blackburn, "With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day," p. 250)
"The two-week engagement at the Downbeat Club went very well. According to the San Francisco Chronicle of 15 August, Billie 'flew into San Francisco last Monday morning...lined up three musicians, rehearsed for five hours on a coffee diet, went back to her hotel for an hour of sleep and then returned to put on four shows before a house that kept crying for more...' Helen Noga, who ran the Downbeat with her husband, spoke of 'all the warnings she received' about Billie and her dope addiction before she arrived, but she said, 'I'll take her any day.'" (Julia Blackburn, "With Billie: A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day," p. 250)