Billie Holiday News

Ray Charles was the musician most responsible for developing soul music. Singers like Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson also did a great deal to pioneer the form, but Charles did even more to devise a new form of black pop by merging '50s R&B with gospel-powered vocals, adding plenty of flavor from contemporary jazz, blues, and country.

Groove to a fusion of musical sounds - jazz, folk, and more - Saturday as local producer Andrew Clapp presents the Marshall Underground Show at Blue Frog Grill and Candelaria downtown.

Our view: A new Negro league baseball museum could revitalize Pennsylvania Ave. November 20, 2009 B altimore, long a center of African-American culture on the East Coast, is a natural home for the region's first Negro league baseball museum, and from a historical perspective, the Pennsylvania Avenue corridor is the perfect place to put it.

Verve: Remixed projects have done it again. The third volume in the series takes things up a notch by not only employing the skills of top DJs, but also some indie rock and hip-hop artists as well.

Chuck Israels' sideman duties make for impressive reading. Most jazz bass players would give their eye teeth to have chalked up anchor roles with the likes of pianist Bill Evans, saxophonist John Coltrane, pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Stan Getz and diva Billie Holiday.

World War II was a time of death and destruction, but it was also a time when the spirit of young Americans was kept aloft by the music and dance.

Kat Edmonson has an intimate vocal style and stage presence that recall some of the jazz greats.

The Hope Art Center will host its premiere program celebrating jazz singer Rick Evans' lifetime career from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

Terra Community College has released its Holiday Festival schedule which this year will include events from Nov.

Ron Murphy will lead his quintet to entertain Nov. 14 at the New Bedford Historical Society's "Cotton Club" benefit.

In reading over yesterday's Billie Holiday discussion , I was reminded of these three photographs of Holiday and her dog, Mister.

Jennie DeVoe will perform tonight at 4620 Reinvented in Knoxville's Bearden neighborhood.

Photographer Roy DeCarava, who died Oct. 27 at age 89, dedicated his 60-year career to capturing images of African Americans.

Subversion and sex: to hear the San Francisco jazz singer Paula West stamp her personality on songs by Bob Dylan and Cole Porter in the same program is like encountering someone with a multilingual gift.

It's Halloween and time for some scary songs - and not Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash." Really scary songs.

It's Halloween and time for some scary songs a ' and, no, I don't mean Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash." I mean really scary songs.

Dee Dee Bridgewater lives her life with her ears open. Speaking by phone last week from her home outside Las Vegas, a reporter's typing on the other end of the line distracted her and led her to mention how she typed 120 words a minute and wrote shorthand years ago.

You know who dis is? Died 50 yeahs ago on this exact day. Da greatest jazz singah of all time: Billie Holiday.

The summer before my freshman year I was hanging out with friends that are really into hair metal, and this rubbed off on me eventually.

As my husband, our nephew and I made our approach to the Queen Mary Hotel in Long Beach, Calif., it occurred to me what an odd setting this was for a luxury hotel.