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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday pays close attention to Louis Armstrong. (Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

On Her Centennial, Billie Holiday Gets the Attention She Deserves

"She made the lyrics into autobiography," said Nat Hentoff. "And she did it in a way that almost no one else quite did."
By Matthew Kassel
Brooks Ashmanskas and Heléne Yorke in <em>Bullets Over Broadway</em>.

The Return of the Jazz Age

Billie Holiday bio-drama and Woody Allen remake bring old-fashioned song and dance to Broadway.
By Rex Reed

These 10 Romantic Jazz Songs Will Slay You

These Romantic Jazz Songs Will Slay You
By Matthew Kassel

Chan Marshall Grows Up

By J. Gabriel Boylan

Iconoclast of Leper Island

By Joe Hagan

Manhattan Music

By Seth Mnookin

A Globeful of Cuisines, An Automat Atmosphere

By Moira Hodgson
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