Billie Holiday fights back tears as she listens to a just-created recording in 1959, what would be her last recording session before she died of cirrhosis of the liver. Friend Milt Hinton, a jazz bassist, captured this intimate image and many other insider’s looks at jazz greats of the 20th century.
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