Blockbuster albums have dominated the charts in 2025. Look at the Billboard Hot 100 at various points this year and you’d ...

The diva. She’s a divine cantatrice and a villainous prima donna. The curator of Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial ...

The Vermont Center for Photography (VCP) presents Presence: The Photographic World of Lotte Jacobi, a major exhibition ...

For decades, the FBI has kept a close eye on Black musicians and other artists they saw as a threat to the status quo.

Duncan commissioned Sioux City-born artist Paul Chelstad to paint a large ceiling mural for the shop, depicting the entire history of recorded music from Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph up ...

Photos: Requiem for Mary Turner\\Instagram\\Wikimedia Commons. LOS ANGELES, CA – Pianist/composer Bobby West is a four-decade ...

A portrait of Frank Sinatra, written for The Atlantic shortly after his death in 1998, includes Mr. Davis’s recollection of seeing him in concert seven years earlier and is flecked with subtle ...

Jazz singer Billie Holiday poses for a portrait circa 1948 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Friedman-Engeler/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Jazz singer Billie Holiday poses for a ...

A portrait of Billie Holiday, large flowers in her pinned up hair. She sits with a dog on her lap.] Words of Hazel: I started hanging around Billie Holiday after work instead of going straight home.

On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival. Then America’s preeminent jazz singer, she closed the event with an effortlessly sophisticated 11-song set ...

SYNOPSIS: The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, given four months before her death.