A few days after her 24th birthday in April 1939, Billie Holiday wandered into the Commodore Music Shop, a record store on East 42nd Street in New York, “very unhappy,” as proprietor Milt Gabler later recalled. In those days, record stores also functioned as recording studios, [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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