Tag: Billie Holiday

We celebrate Lady Day's delicate and beautiful swansong.

Play all to listen to Billie Holiday's two big influences - Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith - and a journey through the career and live performances of Lady Day.

We are delighted to be hosting album listening sessions all weekend at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, our first ever sessions in Denver.

Traces of Lady Day can be heard in our legacy playlist featuring Amy Winehouse, Beth Gibbons, Joni Mitchell, Lana Del Rey, Erykah Badu and more.

“It is Billie Holiday, whom I first heard in 52nd Street clubs in the 1930s, who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence.” - Frank Sinatra

The songs he loved as a teen and as an adult as well as a sample of his legendary gigs at New York City's Sin-é, his collaboration with Gary Lucas and Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser.

Press Play to hear Roxy contemporaries such as David Bowie and Grace Jones and inspirations such as Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker.