Tony Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills, which made up for her limited range and lack of formal music education. There were other jazz singers with equal talent, but Holiday had a voice that captured the attention of her audience.

Tony Scott is a restless, original and innovative genius who, more than any other major musician today, has traveled, played and preached jazz throughout the world. He has cultivated close spiritual and musical relationships in the diverse places he has visited. Their native music has constantly fueled his fertile imagination, and he has imparted his own version of Black jazz through their sounds and rhythms. But it was in Africa, with its complex rhythms, in its strivings and frustrations, that he felt he had encountered the soul of his idol, the late Charlie 'Bird' Parker.

Tony Quarrington and Zoey Adams have been making music together for almost two decades, and between them they have (literally) one hundred years of professional experience.

The official description of Idina Menzel's HOLIDAY WISHES is as follows: "Tony Award-winning singer/actor Idina Menzel will release a Christmas album, entitled Holiday Wishes, on October 14th on Warner Bros. Records. The album was produced by Grammy Award-winner Walter Afanasieff (Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey) and features such classic favorites as "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," as well as Joni Mitchell's Christmas-themed "River," one of Menzel's favorites. More info aboutHoliday Wishes, including the full track-listing and special guests, will be revealed soon."

Featuring the cast of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Hadestown, "If The Fates Allow: A Hadestown Holiday Album" offers both solace and celebration as we head into a winter season like no other. Starring Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer and Kay Trinidad as "The Fates" and featuring the entire Hadestown cast, this album includes beloved holiday classics, songs composed by Hadestown's own Anaïs Mitchell, Yvette Gonzales-Nacer, and Liam Robinson, as well as gems waiting to be rediscovered, all in a sound steeped in blues, folk, ragtime, and jazz that has made Anaïs Mitchell's groundbreaking musical a phenomenon. This 14-track album is sure to lift your spirits and keep you livin' it up this holiday season.