“Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection” and “Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic” opened last month and will run through August 22, 2022.

1915 - 1959 Billie Holiday will always be admired for her ability to communicate the underlying tragedy of life in a song. Her gift for getting to the heart of a lyric and making it her own put her at ...

She was revered in the jazz world as a chance taker who communicated an effervescent joy in the pure act of singing.

Billie Holiday ("Lady Day") is considered by many to be the greatest of all jazz singers. In a tragically abbreviated singing career that lasted less than three decades, her evocative phrasing and ...

Billie Holiday is a jazz legend, but her life was far from a happy tune. This lady did sing the blues, and she lived them, too. Now all that drama is hitting Hulu in “The United States vs ...

Andra Day underwent extensive training and commitment in order to play Billie Holiday. (Photo courtesy of IMDB.) “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” follows the real life story of legendary jazz ...

Directed by Lee Daniels, "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" (streaming on Hulu Friday) centers on the battle over Holiday performing the song "Strange Fruit" in the last 12 years of her life ...

Exclusive 'Billie Holiday' star Andra Day on what helped her most to play the real-life jazz singer The film, directed by Lee Daniels, was the 'Rise Up' singer's first leading role ...

Billie Holiday is widely considered jazz’s pre-eminent singer. Frank Sinatra once said that “with few exceptions, every major pop singer in the U.S. during her generation has been touched in ...

Though Andra Day plays the jazz legend with conviction, The United States vs. Billie Holiday fictionalizes the particulars of Holiday's life, where the real story is dramatic enough.

The organization was collecting money to stage its annual jazz festival on the Green, which takes place Aug. 14 and 21 this year. Mann’s dance was a highlight of the two-hour afternoon event. The ...