Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, on Monday, transporting guests to another time.

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 “Guess Who I Saw Today,” a marvel of ...

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