Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through ...

“Billie Holiday is one of the great fashion icons ... some of which featured the embroidered patterns Holiday favored. Jazz ...

Nancy Wilson blurs the line between jazz singer and pop singer ... “was the nasal quality of Dinah [Washington] and the tear of Billie [Holiday]. I signed her immediately.” An early single, 1961’s ...

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