Billie Holiday News

Hot Still Scape for Six Colors - 7th Avenue Style, 1940, Stuart Davis . Oil on canvas.

Billie Holiday lives. Every time that crooner Kim Zombik takes to the stage. Zombik doesn't just channel Holiday's music, she morphs into the jazz legend.

The great Billie Holiday died of drug and alcohol related causes on July 17, 1959.

Writer and jazz expert Nigel Vermaas heard his first Billie Holiday song when he was 18, shortly after Holiday's death in 1959 - and he has never stopped listening to her.

Known for her comedic personality and dazzling costumes, Lannie Garrett regularly morphs from a disco diva or Patsy "DeCline" to a swingin' and jump-and-jive big-band front-woman. Her swingin' big band brings audiences back to the days of Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Anita O'Day and Frank Sinatra with its 1940s and '50s music Saturday night at ...

"I guess I've always been an outsider," says multiinstrumentalist-songwriter Jon Ji.

Comedian Billy Crystal is reprising his Tony Award-winning Broadway show, 700 Sundays , in a limited tour to six cities - and the Winspear Opera House will present him Nov.

MADELEINE PEYROUX The jazzy vocalist - a ringer for Billie Holiday - says goodbye to standards on her new album, "Bare Bones,'' a stripped-down, all-originals collection co-written with pedigreed collaborators like producer Larry Klein, Steely Dan's Walter Becker, and Julian Coryell.

Work: Pirate radio while at university in Exeter, BBC local radio, then Jazz FM for 14 years.

Billie Holiday is one of many who've interpreted Abel Meeropol's words for "Strange Fruit," but she left the deepest impression.

AZIZ ANSARI, ONE NIGHT ONLY: Laugh along with the comedian from television's "Parks and Recreation" and "Flight of the Conchords" at Punch Line in San Francisco.

Anthony Mark Stockard is already ahead of schedule. "We're moving right along," he says.

A woman answered the door wearing a simple house dress and an apron. "First I thought, This is the maid," says photographer Herman Leonard.

With a voice that wraps an audience like soft velvet, sometimes cool and sometimes warm, singer/songwriter Larzine Talley comes to the Milton Theatre at 8 p.m., Saturday, June 20.

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Though only 23, Malaysian born singer-songwriter, guitarist, Zee Avi possesses a musical voice greater than many twice her age.

Susie Meissner began performing professionally with a dinner theatre group in the mid-70s earning a paltry $7 a night.

Start: Jun 12, 2009 End: Jun 12, 2009 Time: 7:00pm Price: $10 in advance and $12 at the door Contact: 822-2326 Location: 426 E. Tehachapi Blvd., Tehachapi, CA 93561 From the first fiery note to the last whispery phrase, Christine Rosander's sultry voice grabs hold and doesn't let go, stirring up yearning and desire long after a song has ended.

She knows how to reinvigorate recognizable songs without losing their authenticity.

Ben Webster , perhaps the least acknowledged of the great jazz tenor saxophonists, was fortunate enough to have a varied 40-year recording career.