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 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 ...

Billie New Black Films 96 minutes 2020 A victim of her own self-destructive excesses is a common trope when assessing Billie Holiday. Yet James Erskine's handsome documentary Billie makes a convincing ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1930s, Billie Holiday rose from an unknown teenage singer in New York City speakeasies to national popularity as a recording artist and performer in her early 20s.

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 ...

Billie Holiday sang only truth. She knew nothing else.” New Documentary 'Billie' Presents Jazz Great Billie Holiday As The Master Of Her Own Fate, Rather Than A Victim.