Opinion

Lady Day Shows the Way

Lady Day Shows the Way
Billie Holiday at the Downbeat club, a jazz club in New York City, c. circa 1947. William P. Gottlieb/Library of Congress, Public Domain
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Commentary

Billie Holiday (1915–1959), also known as Lady Day, is one of the 20th-century’s great musical geniuses. She brought to every song she sang something special, unpredictable, and unreproducible, some unique interpretation and styling, playful rendering of the text, and evocative turn of melody and expression.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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