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The Hunting of Billie Holiday | Politico

January 30, 2020April 5, 2020Jazz Music

How Lady Day was in the middle of a Federal Bureau of Narcotics fight for survival From his first day in office in 1930, Harry Anslinger had a problem, and everybody knew it. He had just been appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics—a tiny agency, buried in the gray bowels of the Treasury […]

Lovely Pics of Billie Holiday With Her Dog Mister in 1949 | Vintage Everyday

December 13, 2019December 14, 2019African American Music

African American jazz singer Billie Holiday who had a career spanning nearly thirty years was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Her hit “What a Little Moonlight Can Do” became a jazz standard. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the […]