And it’s a very fine line ... it’s the art that ultimately should stand there hanging on the wall. Mona Lisa is more interesting than Leonardo da Vinci, you know, and Billie Holiday singing ...

John Szwed’s brief but revelatory new book, “Billie Holiday ... the immense complexity of inner life that art conveys—including Holiday’s seemingly straightforward and instantly ...

Strange Fruit': Billie Holiday song remains a testament ... Critic John Bush wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FINE AND MELLOW") HOLIDAY: (Singing) Treat me right, baby, and I'll stay home every day. WILLIAMS: This poem is called "Treble," for Billie Holiday. (Reading) This red in the ...

Yet Holiday’s talent as a songwriter is often overlooked, even though she co-authored at least 15 songs, five of which have become jazz and blues classics: “Billie’s Blues,” “Fine and ...

“[Bille Holiday] was such an avant-garde [figure], so it was trying to pull things that seemed new. There are so many pictures of her, it’s wild. She has so many looks within all these ...

Billie Holiday National Portrait Gallery Maya Angelou and Billie Holiday Holiday, Billie (Fagan, Eleanora) National Museum of American History Strange Fruit; Fine and Mellow National Museum of African ...

Billie Holiday would have turned 100 this week, but who’s counting? The famed jazz singer and songwriter’s voice is ageless, still luring fans with its effortless swagger and unblinking candor.

Back in the 1950s, when the American people were buying television sets and driving gas guzzlers on brand new superhighways under the threat of nuclear war, singer Billie Holiday was still turning out ...

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell. The singer—who had honed her art in the brothels of Baltimore, fronted orchestras led by Count Basie and ...

Billie Holiday Theatre Renovation and New Rehearsal Studios The newly-completed restoration has equipped the 200-seat Billie Holiday Theatre with new lighting, stage rigging, audio and visual ...

In the New York studio, the aged instrumentalists were grouped in a semi-circle around Billie Holiday who sat on a wooden stool ... written by Billie herself. "Fine and Mellow" is a 12-bar blues about ...