Billie Holiday records her penultimate album, 'Lady in Satin,' in New York in 1957. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images On July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York.

Billie Holiday was a preeminent jazz vocalist, widely appreciated during her heyday in the 1930s through the 1950s. But many fans now insist that she's the greatest of all time.

Billie Holiday is one of the foremost vocalists in jazz, whose emotional depth and unique phrasing inspired generations of singers to experiment with form and pitch fluctuation. Nicknamed “Lady ...

Billie Holiday," now streaming on Hulu, insists it was something more nefarious: a relentless campaign to destroy Holiday spearheaded by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI under the direction of the bigoted ...

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