1. Billie Holiday Remembered. 6 1/2" x 8 1/2". NY Jazz Museum. 1973. 21 pages. Quotes by musicians, writers, etc. Ex. cond. 2. Count Basie and His Bands. 6 1/2" x 8 1/2". NY Jazz Museum. 1975. 20 ...

Short film featuring performances by Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie and his sextet. From the Cinema Apart Collection.

Over 100 hours of live performances capture the golden age of jazz and include Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman & More The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) ...

Billie Holiday is a roly-poly young colored woman with a hump in her voice. Dance-hall crowds have heard her with Count Basie’s Orchestra, radio audiences with Artie Shaw. She does not care enough ...

For hard-core jazz fans, Barack Obama is the second African-American president. Tenor saxophonist Lester Young was the first. He didn’t win 365 electoral votes, but he won the vote of Billie Holiday, ...

Overtown was once the hottest black community anywhere in the South, including Atlanta. The neighborhood had a Cotton Club, the Rockland Palace, the Harlem Square Club, and, of course, the Lyric ...

If someone said the name Eleanora Fagan, you probably wouldn't know who it is. But how about Billie Holiday? As a child everyone called Eleanora "Bill" because she was a tomboy. When she became a ...

LADY SINGS THE BLUES (250 pp.)−Billie Holiday with William Duffy−Doubleday ($3.75). “Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three.” ...

Duke Ellington called Billie Holiday "the essence of cool," a reference to her equipoise in performance. One of the most influential jazz vocalists of all time, Holiday had a controlled emotional ...

America's Jazz Heritage: A Partnership of the The Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution provided the funding to produce many of the video master and reference copies.