Also, The Billie's production of Inacent Black featured ... in support including actor and son of Pauletta Washington, John David Washington (who attended Saturday's performance).

John & Alice Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Eric Dolphy (pictured, top), Louis Armstrong, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie, along with photos of amateur musicians performing in their ...

When John Hammond died in 1987, his "discoveries" of Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan were cited in his front-page New York Times obituary. He might as easily have been credited with discovering Count ...

That's how record producer John Hammond describes his first meeting ... Hulton Archive/Getty Images Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia as Eleanora Fagan to teenage parents ...

With Dunstan Prial. From 2006. Show more In a career that stretched from 1932 to 1985, legendary record producer John Henry Hammond discovered Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Bruce ...