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.'