Rare Photos Showing Iconic Jazz Singer Billie Holiday Part Of New Smithsonian Exhibit

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1. Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic

Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic

Source: All photographs © 2018 Jerry Dantzic/ Jerry Dantzic Archives. All rights reserved.

Billie Holiday performing on stage with her band – Paul “Vice Pres” Quinichette on tenor saxophone (barely visible behind Billie), Carl Drinkard on piano, Jimmy Schenck on bass and Bobby “Stix” Darden on drums at Sugar Hill, Newark, New Jersey, April, 1957.

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