Billy Holiday News

Join The Whelk in saying NO THANKS! Pop Post Punk Party for the easily annoyed. At 1PM EST, I mean.

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.

Jazzman Ed Polcer and his Swingtet will recreate the magic of New Yorka s 52nd Street in a Xavier Masters of Swing concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct.

Billie Holiday statue on a big rig being delivered to Billie Holiday Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue & Lafayette Avenue The recently restored Billy Holiday statue is returning to the corner of Lafayette and Pennsylvania avenues in Baltimore.

Word came out last year that Jack Johnsona s Brushfire Records had signed their first female artist and, when the labela s Christmas album arrived, her song was the superb standout of the collection.

BILLIE HOLIDAY, the new Poet Laureate and a giant whale all combine at The Dukes this autumn, as the Lancaster venue announces its biggest ever programme of touring work.