American jazz singer, Billie Holiday (1915 – 1959), also known as Lady Day. Her recording of ‘Strange Fruit’ about a lynching was a cause celebre. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images) circa 1955 ...

Billie Holiday, Eric Dolphy (pictured, top), Louis Armstrong, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie, along with photos of amateur musicians performing in their local communities ...

(Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images) “The Museum is honored ... and Fitzgerald — was also a jazz bassist. The “Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic ...

Dantzic’s photos comprise the largest collection of images from any single Holiday club engagement. “Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic” will present over 50 ...

Also, The Billie's production of Inacent Black featured an up-and-coming Samuel L. Jackson. The cast for the Concert Reading featured an impressive list of renowned actors across Broadway ...

Hulton Archive//Getty Images Billie Holiday, center, with Duke Ellington and Leonard Feather in 1945. In this “new” version I was unearthing, Holiday did not consider herself a failure at all.