There's also a live version of "Strange Fruit," a very personal song for Holiday and one of the most harrowing ... Collective Personnel: Billie Holiday: vocals; Jimmy Rowles: piano; Barney Kessel: ...

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 before: "Strange Fruit." Written by Jewish schoolteacher Abel ...

takes Armstrong's and Holiday's versions of the same song, recorded in the same year, 1937. Then he adjusts the turntable pitch controls to speed up Armstrong's vocals and slow down Billie's ...

Arguably the most recognizable voice in vocal jazz history, Billie Holiday is the epitome of style. Born in the poor part of Baltimore to two teenage parents, Billie turned to music as a way to ...

Billie Holiday live in 1948 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, performing “You’re Driving Me Crazy,” and a song she made famous, the anti-lynching anthem “Strange Fruit.” ...

He called on the latter when he introduced “White Gardenias,” a new song inspired by Billie Holiday and her signature headwear, at a Maryland nightclub in February. “When we think of Billie ...

On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival. Then America’s preeminent jazz singer, she closed the event with an effortlessly sophisticated 11-song set ...

Within the first two seconds of this song it’s impossible not to be drawn into the spell of Billie Holiday’s voice. Sailing confidently over lush chords by the pianist Oscar Peterson ...

Billie Holiday.” To combat this reductive view ... (The title of Mr. Alexander’s book is in poor taste. In the song “Strange Fruit,” “bitter crop” alludes to a lynched body.) ...