Billie Holiday - Turning The Tables
Billie Holiday performs at the Club Downbeat in Manhattan in 1947. William Gottlieb/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption
Billie Holiday - Turning The Tables One of the most distinctive and radiant voices in jazz history; an inimitable touchstone whose courageous, complex music and life still inspires today
Billie Holiday, Lizz Wright Getty Images/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