Billie Holiday

WBGO’s Lee Mergner talks with singer-songwriter Jose James about his new album On and On, which features the music of fellow singer-songwriter Erykah Badu.

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This April Fool's Day, pause to consider "I'm a Fool to Want You" — specifically, the iconic version recorded by Billie Holiday.

“The best thing you can do,” Abbey Lincoln once said, “is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.”March is Women’s History Month,…

Since her death more than 60 years ago, we've seen a series of depictions of Billie Holiday, most of them disappointing in one way or another. In this episode of Jazz United, we unpack our objections to Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday — and consider another, more fruitful recent film, the documentary Billie.

This Presidents' Day, we thought you'd enjoy a jazz playlist for 46. Clifford Brown, “Now’s the Time”The most celebrated jazz musician from Joe Biden's…

Jazz musicians have always faced systems of discrimination in America.One insidious example was the cabaret card, a form of identification required for…

Those lyrics that Eddie DeLange wrote for Duke Ellington’s classic melody, “(In My) Solitude,” have taken on so much more meaning for all of us these…

In this year of big jazz centennials — 100 candles for Ella, Monk and Dizzy, and for the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s first recordings — it’s easy to…