In the mid-’30s, Meeropol was stricken by a newspaper picture taken in 1930 of a lynching of two ... and who initially presented the song to Billie Holiday is the subject of some dispute.

Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman ... a Blues singer from the Harlem Renaissance in ...

Five Points is possibly the most dynamic and interesting section of Denver, and it still boasts plenty of things to do.

Jazz singer Alex McArthur and the Buffalo Jazz Collective will perform the music of World War II on Friday at the Kenan Center’s Taylor Theatre in Lockport. As part of the “Secret Weapons of WWII” ...

A hundred years after The Great Gatsby shone a light on extravagant Long Island mansions and secret speakeasies, the spirit ...

The name Hazel Scott should probably be as well known as Billie Holiday or Lena Horne ... the most well-known entertainment figures of the 1930s and ‘40s, playing in some of New York City ...

Suzi Quatro is a hopeless romantic at heart - and the "first proper love song" she heard is testament to that as it always makes her cry. Read more here.

We speak to Eddy Hackett of immersive theatre specialists The Lost Estate about the jazz-infused 58th Street and its ...

Actual "cover versions" — a term which seems to have been around since the 1930s — depend on there ... so did bandleader Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday; and many others.

To commemorate Women's History Month, World Cafe is looking back on a century's worth of music history. Every week in March, ...