Billie Holiday made her third appearance at Carnegie Hall on November 10 , 1956. The presentation was a 2-hour concert ...

Thomas J Price, Tavares Strachan, and Tanda Francis are in the running for a sculpture honoring the legendary jazz vocalist ...

The city is inviting feedback on six artist proposals for a permanent public monument honoring jazz legend Billie Holiday at ...

More than seven years after it was first commissioned, a monument honoring Billie Holiday in New York City is moving forward ...

The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs revealed six finalist proposals for a permanent public monument honoring Billie ...

HOLLYWOOD -- Once upon a time, Diana Ross helped tell the story of Billie Holiday in "Lady Sings The Blues." That was back in 1972. Now, almost 50 years later, it's Andra Day's turn in "The United ...

One of the six shortlisted designs, by artists including Tavares Strachan and Thomas J Price, will be chosen this summer and ...

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 some way ...

Lady Sings The Blues; Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do; All Of Me; The Man I Love; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; Love Is Here To Stay; Fine And Mellow; Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be); Good Morning ...

Ferguson spoke to theartsdesk about her new album of Billie Holiday songs, Lady Sings the Blues, which is released this week to celebrate the centenary of Holiday’s birth. Holiday’s life, on paper a ...

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Although he wrote the music for one of Billie Holiday’s most renowned songs, “Lady Sings the Blues,” the work of pianist Herbie Nichols (1919-1963) is unduly obscure. He recorded only sporadically, ...