(ThyBlackMan.com) Billie Holiday’s music has stood the test of time, transcending generations and remaining an essential ...

In 1959, during what would be the final months of her life, Billie Holiday was unwell. The singer—who had honed her art in the brothels of Baltimore, fronted orchestras led by Count Basie and Artie ...

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of ...

On July 17, 1959, the famed singer behind a controversial jazz standard once condemned as a “declaration of war” died—an ironically tragic end to an internal war the singer endured in the final years ...

Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year, by Paul Alexander. Knopf. 368 pages. $32. Early on in Billie Holiday’s 1956 memoir Lady Sings the Blues, she recalls the ...

Billie Holiday, considered one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, has long been remembered for her expressive voice as ...