Billie Holiday News

Terra Community College has released its Holiday Festival schedule which this year will include events from Nov.

Ron Murphy will lead his quintet to entertain Nov. 14 at the New Bedford Historical Society's "Cotton Club" benefit.

In reading over yesterday's Billie Holiday discussion , I was reminded of these three photographs of Holiday and her dog, Mister.

Jennie DeVoe will perform tonight at 4620 Reinvented in Knoxville's Bearden neighborhood.

Photographer Roy DeCarava, who died Oct. 27 at age 89, dedicated his 60-year career to capturing images of African Americans.

Subversion and sex: to hear the San Francisco jazz singer Paula West stamp her personality on songs by Bob Dylan and Cole Porter in the same program is like encountering someone with a multilingual gift.

It's Halloween and time for some scary songs - and not Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash." Really scary songs.

It's Halloween and time for some scary songs a ' and, no, I don't mean Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash." I mean really scary songs.

Dee Dee Bridgewater lives her life with her ears open. Speaking by phone last week from her home outside Las Vegas, a reporter's typing on the other end of the line distracted her and led her to mention how she typed 120 words a minute and wrote shorthand years ago.

You know who dis is? Died 50 yeahs ago on this exact day. Da greatest jazz singah of all time: Billie Holiday.

The summer before my freshman year I was hanging out with friends that are really into hair metal, and this rubbed off on me eventually.

As my husband, our nephew and I made our approach to the Queen Mary Hotel in Long Beach, Calif., it occurred to me what an odd setting this was for a luxury hotel.

SOURCE: rock paper scissors, inc. Lifting Up a Shot of Pure Grain Cesaria: The Music of Cape Verde's Billie Holiday Goes to Cairo Cesaria Evora has overcome poverty, a revolution, and even a recent stroke to become a national treasure of Cape Verde and uphold her reputation as an increasingly adventurous icon of world music.

"Lady Day at the Boston Bistro" recalls the life and art of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz singer who died 50 years ago at the age of 44.

Black History Month should help break down homophobia by celebrating the sexuality of black heroes such as Malcolm X October is Black History Month in Britain a ' a wonderful celebration of the huge, important and valuable contribution that black people have made to humanity and to popular culture.

Any woman who has ever worn a pair of jeans has Iris Apfel to thank. In the 1940s, when only lumberjacks and field hands wore blue cotton denim, a persistent young girl hounded the owner of a Wisconsin Army & Navy store until he finally ordered her a pair of boy-sized denims.

Unity Theatre Ensemble is this area's stealth company -- except when they're performing.

From a musical theater production honoring one of the music's most revered legends to an up-and-coming trio stretching the boundaries of the genre, there's a diverse lineup of jazz events happening over the next few days in St.

A perfect marriage of saxophone and voice, saxophonist Kenny Soderblom and his wife, vocalist Leah McCoy Soderblom, pay tribute to great American jazz standards in a intimate and sensuous performance with You and the Night and the Music .

By Norbert Krapf In his latest striking collection, Indiana poet laureate and Indianapolis resident Norbert Krapf focuses his critical eye and passionate voice on the female form.