Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill - Jerry Dantzic

In 1957, New York photojournalist Jerry Dantzic spent time with the iconic singer Billie
Holiday during a two-week run of performances at the Newark, New Jersey, nightclub
Sugar Hill. The resulting images offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Billie with
her family, friends and her pet chiuhuaha, Pepe; playing with her godchild (son of
her autobiography's co-author, William Dufty); washing dishes at the Duftys' home;
walking the streets of Newark; in her hotel room; waiting backstage or having a drink
in front of the stage; and performing. The years and the struggles seem to vanish when
she sings: her face lights up. Later that year, Dantzic photographed her at the second
New York Jazz Festival at Randall's Island, in colour. Only a handful of the photographs
in this book have ever been published.