Billie Holiday (1915-1959) was a jazz vocalist with perhaps the most emotional depth of any singer in jazz history. Billie Holiday's life was tragic. Born into out-of-wedlock poverty, she rose to a position of artistic pre-eminence in the world of...

Billie Holiday, certainly one of the foremost American song stylists and often called the greatest American jazz singer, was born Eleanora Harris on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia. After her birth to Sadie Harris, the facts about Billie are often in...

Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan and later nicknamed Lady Day (see "Jazz royalty" regarding similar nicknames), was an American jazz singer, composer, a seminal influence on jazz and pop singers, and generally...

(((VOICE JAZZ))) "THE BILLIE HOLIDAY GUIDE A PRE-ALBUM GENIUS IN KEY SONGS AND UNFORGETTABLE LONGFORMS, WITH EXTRA CONSUMER ADVICE Often there is laughter where you expect tears, kickass strength in the rendering of a weak lyric, and almost always, not too far...

SEMENYA McCORD'S TRIBUTE TO BILLIE HOLIDAY: "I KNOW ABOUT THE LIFE" -- With Semenya McCord, vocals; Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone; Rollins Ross, piano; Dan O'Brien, bass; Herbie King, drums; and Larry Watson, vocals, Valerie Stephens, dramatist, and Eric Jackson, narrator....

When one listens to Verve Remixed, Vol 3, the first thing that pops to mind is "21st century jazz." That is exactly what producers Dahlia Ambach Caplin and Todd C. Roberts were hoping for. With this latest installment of jazz remixes, producers are put to...

Entertainment highlights during the week of July 15-21:1959: Jazz singer Billie Holiday died in a New York hospital while under arrest for narcotics possession. She was 44.1961: John Chancellor replaced Dave Garroway on the "Today" show, but admitted he hated the job and wanted out...