“[Louise] was good to Billie,” says Irene Wilson Kitchens, Holiday’s friend and first wife of pianist Teddy ... for whom money was never an issue — “had a lot to do with it.” ...

Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights. Influential jazz writer Leonard Feather called the song “the first significant protest in words and music, the first significant ...

When the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Suzan-Lori Parks was little and her parents put on Billie ... Holiday, the work is based on a chapter from “Chasing the Scream: The ...

Most famously recorded by jazz icon Billie Holiday ... to the story of Holiday. While hers remains the definitive version, Holiday was neither the song’s author nor the first person to perform ...

No figure in American music led a more interesting, troubled and tragic life than Billie ... work. Holiday, who was often called "Lady Day," would seem to be a natural subject for a first-rate ...