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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth

With John Szwed, Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and critically acclaimed jazz writer.

This illustrated lecture explores Billie Holliday’s music, her performance style, and the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage. It considers how her life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs and her legacy.











When: Thu., Jul. 16, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863
Price: Free
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With John Szwed, Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and critically acclaimed jazz writer.

This illustrated lecture explores Billie Holliday’s music, her performance style, and the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage. It considers how her life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs and her legacy.

Buy tickets/get more info now