Lil Baby performs during a Juneteenth voter registration rally on June 19, 2020 at Murphy Park Fairgrounds in Atlanta, Ga. One week earlier, he released "The Bigger Picture," a song protesting police brutality. Paras Griffin/Getty Images hide caption
Billie Holiday, Lizz Wright Getty Images/NPR hide caption
Turning the Tables at Lincoln Center NPR hide caption
Billie Holiday performs on stage at the Sugar Hill nightclub in Newark, N.J. Farah Jasmine Griffin's 2001 book posed a challenge to biographers and helped reimagine Holiday's legacy. Bob Parent/Getty Images hide caption
Portrait of Billie Holiday singing at the Downbeat club in New York City on February 1947. Library of Congress hide caption
The Blair House Collective reads poems for Turning the Tables NPR hide caption
Billie Holiday sings at a Sunday afternoon jam session. Charles Peterson/Getty Images hide caption
Billie Holiday performs at the Club Downbeat in Manhattan in 1947. William Gottlieb/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption
Turning The Tables: 8 Women Who Invented American Popular Music Chelsea Beck for NPR hide caption
In this playlist, musicians imagine what it might be like to take a step on that bright glowing ball in the sky. A. Dagli Orti/De Agostini via Getty Images hide caption
Chuck Berry in the Chess Records recording studio. The New York Times reports that originals of Berry's Chess catalog were burned in the 2008 Universal fire. Gilles Petard/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption
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Billie Holiday has become a mythic presence in absentia. William Gottlieb/Getty Images hide caption
Billie Holiday, early 1950s. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Cassandra Wilson's Billie Holiday tribute album is titled Coming Forth By Day. Mark Seliger/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
In a conversation aired on WBGO, Jessye Norman credits the study of jazz with her understanding of song interpretation. Carol Friedman/Courtesy of the artist hide caption