In April 1957 my father Jerry Dantzic was hired as a freelance photographer by Decca Records to shoot Billie Holiday during her Easter Week engagement at Sugar Hill in Newark, New Jersey. He also photographed her at 43 West 93rd Street in Manhattan, the Upper West Side apartment of William and Maely Dufty, filled with the comforts of a loving family.
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