Classy Hotel Gone, But Memories Stay
Legendary singer-songwriter Billie Holiday and other jazz greats jammed at the Plaza Hotel in Norfolk, Virginia when it was the place for black folks to go. This article was first published on December 8, 1980 in The Virginian Pilot: The Plaza Hotel cooked on Monday nights when jazz musicians tried to best each other in the weekly jam sessions. Spurred on by shouts from their audience in the downstairs dining room, they brought up Tuesday’s sun. Ladies in frothy chiffon cockt