John Szwed Billie Holiday

Her music has outlasted the short life she shared. There was something about Billie Holiday that electrified the audience. Some call it improv. Others might identify it as Jazz. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with author John Szwed ohn Szwed is a former professor of music and director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. As a jazz musician, he played professionally for over a decade. He is the author of eighteen books, including So What: The Life of Miles Davis and Alan Lomax: The Man who Recorded the World.