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The 13 pages that link to Billie Holiday, each with the reason it gives.

• JazzRelated: Holiday demonstrated how vocal timing and phrasing could reshape a song with improvisatory subtlety.

• Protest songRelated: Her delivery gave the song’s condemnation of lynching exceptional emotional force.

• Cotton ClubRelated: She performed at the Cotton Club early in her career, before her national breakthrough.

• Swing eraRelated: Her intimate vocal approach contrasted with the era’s large, polished band sound.

• Lester YoungRelated: Holiday and Young shared a close friendship and shaped each other’s approach to phrasing.

• Artie ShawRelated: Holiday sang with Shaw’s orchestra in 1938, an unusual interracial collaboration for a major swing band.

• Frank O’HaraRelated: Her death becomes the abrupt emotional turn in O’Hara’s poem “The Day Lady Died.”

• Hoagy CarmichaelRelated: Her interpretation of “The Nearness of You” exemplifies the song’s life beyond its composer.

• Leonard FeatherRelated: Feather wrote the lyrics to Holiday’s recording “Evil Gal Blues.”