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Billie Holiday
Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
1949 March 23.
Location: LOT 12735, no. 519
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-89028
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_poh.html
TIFF > JPEG by Anglonautes.
Billie Holiday performing.
Photograph: Ted Williams
Iconic Images
Hearing Music in Photos of Jazz Giants
By John Leland
NYT Aug. 16, 2016
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/
hearing-music-in-photos-of-jazz-giants/
What do I care if icicles form … Billie
Holiday.
Photograph: AP
The playlist:
Christmas jazz – Billie
Holiday, Chet Baker, Miles Davis and more
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Last modified on Tuesday 15 December 2015 15.09 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/15/
the-playlist-jazz-billie-holiday-chet-baker-miles-davis
Billie Holiday, circa 1952,
seven years
before her death.
Photograph: Bob Willoughby
Redferns-Getty Images
For Billie Holiday’s 100th Birthday,
Tributes and New Releases
By BEN RATLIFF NYT
APRIL 2, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/
arts/music/for-billie-holidays-100th-birthday-tributes-and-new-releases.html
Billie Holiday at a Commodore recording
session in 1939.
The musicians are, from left,
Johnny Williams, Frankie Newton,
Stan Payne
and Kenneth Hollon.
Photograph: Charles Peterson
Hulton Archive-Getty Images
For Billie Holiday’s 100th Birthday,
Tributes and New Releases
By BEN RATLIFF NYT
APRIL 2, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/
arts/music/for-billie-holidays-100th-birthday-tributes-and-new-releases.html
Billie Holiday backstage
with her pet
Chihuahua, Pepi.
Photograph: Jerry Dantzic
Backstage With Billie Holiday
Mar. 14, 2017
NYT
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/
backstage-with-billie-holiday-jerry-dantzic/
Jam Session
Billie Holiday (C) singing "Fine & Mellow"
accompanied by Cozy Cole on drums,
James P. Johnson at piano
& other unident.
musicians
during jam session
in studio of LIFE
photographer Gjon Mili.
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: 1941
Photographer: Gjon Mili
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/167340b9b7814ce7.html
Billie Holiday / "Lady Day" 1915-1959
Miss Holiday became a singer
more from desperation than desire.
She was named Eleanora Fagan
after her birth in Baltimore.
She was the daughter
of a 13-year-old mother,
Sadie Fagan,
and a 15-year-old father
who were married
there
years after she was born.
The first and major influence
on her singing
came when as a child
she ran errands for the
girls
in a near-by brothel
in return for the
privilege
of listening to recordings
by Mr. Armstrong
and Miss Smith.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0407.html
By early 1959
she had cirrhosis of the liver,
and she died on 15 July,
from heart failure
caused by her condition.
She died
leaving 70 cents in the bank.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2015/apr/07/
billie-holidays-centenary-a-life-in-pictures
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/
billie-holiday-about-the-singer/68/
https://www.npr.org/artists/14894617/billie-holiday
https://www.theguardian.com/music/billie-holiday
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/06/18/
1007389777/songs-for-freedom-a-juneteenth-playlist-from-pianist-lara-downes
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/
arts/music/strange-fruit-united-states-v-billie-holiday.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/05/
920375498/the-united-states-vs-billie-holiday
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/
752909807/strange-fruit
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/
t-magazine/mintons-jazz-club-harlem-bebop.html
https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2017/12/14/
blogs/a-look-at-the-heart-wrenching-moments-from-equal-rights-battles/
s/14-lens-smolan-slide-TDUK.html
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/
backstage-with-billie-holiday-jerry-dantzic/
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/
t-magazine/frank-sinatra-and-billie-holiday-bond.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jun/23/
billie-holiday-records-from-a-rented-room
http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2015/apr/07/
billie-holidays-centenary-a-life-in-pictures
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/07/
397877385/billie-holiday-a-singer-beyond-our-understanding
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/
arts/music/for-billie-holidays-100th-birthday-tributes-and-new-releases.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/16/
protest-songs-billie-holiday-strange-fruit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/16/
what-makes-a-great-protest-song
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/may/25/
jazz-billie-holiday-strange-fruit
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/aug/18/
jazz.urban
https://www.nytimes.com/1959/07/22/
archives/3000-at-funeral-of-billie-holiday-many-in-music-woric-mourn-noted.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1959/06/13/
archives/billie-holiday-held-narcotics-squad-says-singer-had-heroin-in.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1958/09/15/
archives/billie-holiday-sings-with-old-magic-in-allstar-jazz-show-at-town.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1958/07/06/
archives/billie-holiday-jazz-singer-pure-and-simple.html
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