On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival. Then America’s preeminent jazz singer ...

Baltimore hardcore crew Jivebomb will unleash their debut album, Ethereal, next month, and they’ve shared another brutal ...

A four-alarm fire on Wednesday evening severely damaged a building in Harlem where the jazz legend Billie Holiday once lived.

Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of African Americans in the community is what started the whole altercation.

CD1: Strange Fruit; Yesterdays; Fine and Mellow; I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues; How Am I to Know; My Old Flame; I'll Get By; I Cover the Waterfront; I'll Be Seeing You; I'm Yours; Embraceable You; ...

The spellbinding, sometimes brutally evocative lyrics of "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday, describes lynchings in the American South.

Jazz At The Philharmonic Concerts 1945-1947; Body And Soul; Strange Fruit; I Cried For You; Fine And Mellow; He's Funny That Way; The Man I Love; Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?; All Of Me; Billie's ...

Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you including music from John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Marian McPartland and more. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk Alyn Shipton ...

Two actresses have been nominated for best actress for portraying legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday. Diana Ross was nominated for the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues; Andra Day for the 2020 film ...

The independent label, founded in 1938 in mid-Manhattan, made its mark on music history by recording Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” and other songs by jazz legends such as Lester Young ...

Brooklyn poet Shanelle Gabriel will host a star-studded evening featuring R&B singer Lydia Caesar. The Billie Holiday Theatre ...