Moments later, Roz White is smiling behind the mic as Billie Holiday, a pro who knows how to hit her mark. We’re in Philadelphia, a city Billie admits she hates because she was once arrested ...

September 13, 2024 3 min Roz White as Billie Holiday in Mosaic Theater Company’s production of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.” (Chris Banks) Review by Naveen Kumar ...

Billie Holiday rose to prominence in 1939 headlining at Manhattan’s Café Society, America’s first integrated nightclub. The price of that fame was to be stalked by law enforcement and the media.

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 ...

Discussed in this essay: Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year, by Paul Alexander. Knopf. 368 pages. $32. E arly on in Billie Holiday’s 1956 memoir Lady Sings the Blues, ...