Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In March 1939, a then-23-year-old Billie Holiday closed out her set at New York's Cafe Society with a song she hadn't performed ...

We speak with Paul Alexander about his book Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year. In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander ...

When Harry Smith, creator of The Anthology of American Folk Music and dean of American bohemians, received a Grammy just a few months before his death in 1991, he said, “I'm glad to say that my dreams ...

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 Artie ...

On July 17, 1958, exactly one year before she died, Billie Holiday performed on the television show “Art Ford’s Jazz Party.” Ford, like most jazz lovers, was a Holiday devotee, and he almost sounds ...

Many of the myths imposed upon her during her lifetime persist, particularly those that linger around her early death. It’s worth ticking a few off here, for the record. Holiday was not a tragic ...