Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of ...

Billie Holiday and Nina Simone may seem like the stalwarts of jazz, but how did Simone's former inspiration turn into someone she hated? Find out here.

Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man," the British singer's love song to American ... of the altar/stage and all who worship there. Billie Holiday made a single, wry nod to gospel in ...

POPULAR jazz singer and broadcaster, Clare Teal, will join Wirral-based jazz orchestra Out of the Blue at Heswall Hall in June. Teal will join the band as guest vocalist for one night only on Saturday ...

I'm Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Helen Humes was a remarkable blues and popular singer for the Basie Band following ...

Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek So begins the song "Cheek to Cheek," written ...

In a new video, Barbra Streisand goes behind the scenes with Laufey on a duet version of the latter's Letter To My 13 Year Old Self, which appears on Streisand's upcoming album The Secret Of Life: ...

Making Connections Between Erik Satie, Jazz, and Personal Identity article by Victor L. Schermer, published on June 11, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Interview articles ...

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Dot. is refreshingly self-aware about her music and the persona that comes with it. “Weirdly enough, I think my quote-unquote ...

In 1979, former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and cut a string of idiosyncratic yet impassioned socialist pop.