50 great moments in jazz: Billie Holiday

Regarded by many as the greatest jazz singer of them all, Holiday's eloquent ability to sound both world-weary and innocent captivated audiences worldwideIn pop and rock, a band without a charismatic singer is more or less unthinkable. In classical music, fans believe that opera represents the highest aspirations of the human voice. But jazz singers get a raw deal. Earlier generations of players, annoyed that photogenic but sometimes musically illiterate vocalists were getting the attention, wou...

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