A lament and a freedom song for the ages from one of the greatest artists and freedom singers America has ever produced. This staging of Billie Holiday singing her own tune “Fine and Mellow ...

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 ...

Still, few plays are as focused on small slices of a singer’s career, and “Lady Day” offers audiences the chance to cozy up to Roston and experience Billie Holiday in 3D on an impossibly ...

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital ... in the South," Time wrote in 1999, "history's greatest jazz singer comes to terms with history itself." ...

(The Conversation) — Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan ... “history’s greatest jazz singer comes to terms with history itself.” ...

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 ...