[vc_section][vc_row gap=”20″ row_type=”full_width” type=”full_screen”][vc_column width=”1/2″][wbc_heading tag=”h1″ heading_style=”heading-1″ align=”left” title=”Mister and Lady Day” p_bottom=”40″][vc_raw_html]JTNDYSUyMHN0eWxlJTNEJTIyYmFja2dyb3VuZC1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQmJvcmRlci1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQiUyMiUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIyd2JjLWJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ0bi1wcmltYXJ5JTIwbm8taG92ZXIlMjIlMjBocmVmJTNEJTIyJTVCdHlwZXMlMjBmaWVsZCUzRCUyN2FtYXpvbi1saW5rJTI3JTIwb3V0cHV0JTNEJTI3cmF3JTI3JTVEJTVCJTJGdHlwZXMlNUQlMjIlMjB0YXJnZXQlM0QlMjJfYmxhbmslMjIlMjAlMjAlM0VCVVklMjBOT1clM0MlMkZhJTNF[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]Billie Holiday—also known as Lady Day—had fame, style, a stellar voice, big gardenias in her hair, and lots of dogs. She had a coat-pocket poodle, a beagle, Chihuahuas, a Great Dane, and more, but her favorite was a boxer named Mister. Mister was always there to bolster her …

[vc_section][vc_row gap=”20″ row_type=”full_width” type=”full_screen”][vc_column width=”1/2″][wbc_heading tag=”h1″ heading_style=”heading-1″ align=”left” title=”Lady Day – The Many Faces of Billie Holiday” p_bottom=”40″][vc_raw_html]JTNDYSUyMHN0eWxlJTNEJTIyYmFja2dyb3VuZC1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQmJvcmRlci1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQiUyMiUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIyd2JjLWJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ0bi1wcmltYXJ5JTIwbm8taG92ZXIlMjIlMjBocmVmJTNEJTIyJTVCdHlwZXMlMjBmaWVsZCUzRCUyN2FtYXpvbi1saW5rJTI3JTIwb3V0cHV0JTNEJTI3cmF3JTI3JTVEJTVCJTJGdHlwZXMlNUQlMjIlMjB0YXJnZXQlM0QlMjJfYmxhbmslMjIlMjAlMjAlM0VCVVklMjBOT1clM0MlMkZhJTNF[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]Given the often inextricable relationship between art and suffering, it’s no coincidence that Billie Holiday, popularly acclaimed as jazz’s greatest (if not technically best) female singer, was also one of its most tragic figures. While both triumph and tragedy are covered in this …

[vc_section][vc_row gap=”20″ row_type=”full_width” type=”full_screen”][vc_column width=”1/2″][wbc_heading tag=”h1″ heading_style=”heading-1″ align=”left” title=”The Billie Holiday The Ultimate Collection DVD” p_bottom=”40″][vc_raw_html]JTNDYSUyMHN0eWxlJTNEJTIyYmFja2dyb3VuZC1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQmJvcmRlci1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQiUyMiUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIyd2JjLWJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ0bi1wcmltYXJ5JTIwbm8taG92ZXIlMjIlMjBocmVmJTNEJTIyJTVCdHlwZXMlMjBmaWVsZCUzRCUyN2FtYXpvbi1saW5rJTI3JTIwb3V0cHV0JTNEJTI3cmF3JTI3JTVEJTVCJTJGdHlwZXMlNUQlMjIlMjB0YXJnZXQlM0QlMjJfYmxhbmslMjIlMjAlMjAlM0VCVVklMjBOT1clM0MlMkZhJTNF[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]The Billie Holiday The Ultimate Collection DVD features rare TV and film performances, an especially rare radio interview with Mike Wallace, an audio-only rehearsal session with pianist Jimmy Rowles, audio interviews with friends and fellow musicians, an interactive timeline and an evocative photo-document gallery featuring …

[vc_section][vc_row gap=”20″ row_type=”full_width” type=”full_screen”][vc_column width=”1/2″][wbc_heading tag=”h1″ heading_style=”heading-1″ align=”left” title=”Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth” p_bottom=”40″][vc_raw_html]JTNDYSUyMHN0eWxlJTNEJTIyYmFja2dyb3VuZC1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQmJvcmRlci1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQiUyMiUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIyd2JjLWJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ0bi1wcmltYXJ5JTIwbm8taG92ZXIlMjIlMjBocmVmJTNEJTIyJTVCdHlwZXMlMjBmaWVsZCUzRCUyN2FtYXpvbi1saW5rJTI3JTIwb3V0cHV0JTNEJTI3cmF3JTI3JTVEJTVCJTJGdHlwZXMlNUQlMjIlMjB0YXJnZXQlM0QlMjJfYmxhbmslMjIlMjAlMjAlM0VCVVklMjBOT1clM0MlMkZhJTNF[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]Winner! Jazz Journalists Association “2016 Jazz Book of the Year” When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public …

[vc_section][vc_row gap=”20″ row_type=”full_width” type=”full_screen”][vc_column width=”1/2″][wbc_heading tag=”h1″ heading_style=”heading-1″ align=”left” title=”Wishing On the Moon” p_bottom=”40″][vc_raw_html]JTNDYSUyMHN0eWxlJTNEJTIyYmFja2dyb3VuZC1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQmJvcmRlci1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQiUyMiUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIyd2JjLWJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ0bi1wcmltYXJ5JTIwbm8taG92ZXIlMjIlMjBocmVmJTNEJTIyJTVCdHlwZXMlMjBmaWVsZCUzRCUyN2FtYXpvbi1saW5rJTI3JTIwb3V0cHV0JTNEJTI3cmF3JTI3JTVEJTVCJTJGdHlwZXMlNUQlMjIlMjB0YXJnZXQlM0QlMjJfYmxhbmslMjIlMjAlMjAlM0VCVVklMjBOT1clM0MlMkZhJTNF[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. “Now, finally, we have a definitive biography,” said Booklist of Donald Clarke’s Billie Holiday, “by a deeply compassionate, respectful, …

[vc_section][vc_row gap=”20″ row_type=”full_width” type=”full_screen”][vc_column width=”1/2″][wbc_heading tag=”h1″ heading_style=”heading-1″ align=”left” title=”Lady Sings the Blues” p_bottom=”40″][vc_raw_html]JTNDYSUyMHN0eWxlJTNEJTIyYmFja2dyb3VuZC1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQmJvcmRlci1jb2xvciUzQSUyM2ZmMDBkMCUzQiUyMiUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIyd2JjLWJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ1dHRvbiUyMGJ0bi1wcmltYXJ5JTIwbm8taG92ZXIlMjIlMjBocmVmJTNEJTIyJTVCdHlwZXMlMjBmaWVsZCUzRCUyN2FtYXpvbi1saW5rJTI3JTIwb3V0cHV0JTNEJTI3cmF3JTI3JTVEJTVCJTJGdHlwZXMlNUQlMjIlMjB0YXJnZXQlM0QlMjJfYmxhbmslMjIlMjAlMjAlM0VCVVklMjBOT1clM0MlMkZhJTNF[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]Lady Sings the Blues is the no-holds-barred, if somewhat dramatized autobiography of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen …