Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of... 53 KB (4,785 words) - 04:17, 3 May 2024 |
Bessie is a 2015 HBO TV film about the American blues singer Bessie Smith, and focuses on her transformation as a struggling young singer into "The Empress... 28 KB (1,516 words) - 03:12, 16 April 2024 |
Lucille Bogan (redirect from Bessie Jackson) pseudonym Bessie Jackson. Music critic Ernest Borneman noted that Bogan was one of "the big three of the blues", along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Many... 9 KB (1,027 words) - 12:19, 10 May 2024 |
The Death of Bessie Smith is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee, written in 1959 and premiered in West Berlin the following year. The play... 6 KB (761 words) - 10:47, 13 May 2023 |
received critical acclaim for her portrayal of blues singer Bessie Smith in the HBO film Bessie (2015), which she co-produced, winning the Primetime Emmy... 100 KB (8,522 words) - 05:28, 14 May 2024 |
contemporaries. Clara Smith was not related to the singers Bessie Smith and Mamie Smith. Clara Smith was born to parents Selena and William Smith in Spartanburg... 10 KB (1,091 words) - 05:53, 26 February 2024 |
Choice Television Award nomination for playing Bessie Smith's sister Viola in the 2015 HBO film Bessie. Khandi Alexander was born in Jacksonville, Florida... 19 KB (1,097 words) - 02:12, 12 May 2024 |
Bessie Mae Smith was an American blues singer from St. Louis, who recorded for the Okeh, Vocalion and Paramount record labels under a variety of names... 3 KB (268 words) - 06:47, 15 November 2022 |
time, she met Bessie Smith, a young blues singer who was also making a name for herself. A story later developed that Rainey kidnapped Smith, forced her... 41 KB (3,210 words) - 23:06, 23 March 2024 |
Dinah Sings Bessie Smith is the ninth studio album by blues, R&B and jazz singer Dinah Washington released on the Emarcy label, and reissued by Verve Records... 5 KB (423 words) - 11:42, 6 April 2024 |
Little Sugar in My Bowl" is a dirty blues song first recorded in 1931 by Bessie Smith and released by Columbia Records. It was written by Clarence Williams... 9 KB (785 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2024 |
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (category Bessie Smith songs) Vaudeville-blues style. The lyrics in the popular 1929 recording by Bessie Smith are told from the point of view of somebody who was once wealthy during... 11 KB (1,274 words) - 03:31, 18 December 2023 |
Five, Sidney Bechet, and blues singers Alberta Hunter, Ma Rainey, and Bessie Smith. In 1925, Armstrong returned to Chicago largely at the insistence of... 101 KB (11,625 words) - 23:22, 4 May 2024 |
essayist and journalist Bessie Smith (1894–1937), American blues singer Bessie Stringfield (1911–1993), American motorcyclist Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955)... 2 KB (290 words) - 22:03, 5 March 2024 |
singers Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie, whom she deeply admired, helped develop her singing talent. "I just started hearing the blues of Bessie Smith, well... 44 KB (5,544 words) - 20:04, 23 April 2024 |
small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and the other singers in this genre were instrumental... 13 KB (1,720 words) - 22:15, 12 January 2024 |
1920s saw the emergence of many famous women musicians, including Bessie Smith. Bessie Smith also gained attention because she was not only a great singer... 52 KB (6,180 words) - 02:51, 8 May 2024 |
Saint Louis Blues (song) (category Bessie Smith songs) repertoire. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, Bessie Smith, Eartha Kitt, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo, Peanuts Hucko... 12 KB (1,089 words) - 19:19, 1 May 2024 |
Salutes Bessie Smith is the second album by American pianist Amina Claudine Myers, recorded in 1980 for the Leo label. The AllMusic review by Michael G... 3 KB (170 words) - 19:54, 21 November 2023 |
her on-stage portrayals of Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. Braden, who is originally from Detroit, originated the Bessie Smith role and has been performing... 5 KB (385 words) - 07:16, 24 January 2024 |
album, Cahoots, it is written that "Robbie [Robertson] is certain that 'Bessie Smith' was recorded sometime between their 1969 second album and Stage Fright"... 34 KB (4,610 words) - 05:57, 24 December 2023 |
1920s, among them "the big three"—Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Lucille Bogan. Mamie Smith, more a vaudeville performer than a blues artist, was... 93 KB (11,143 words) - 12:07, 14 May 2024 |
Blues is a 1929 American two-reel short film starring Bessie Smith. The early sound film features Smith in an African-American speakeasy of the prohibition... 5 KB (452 words) - 03:57, 5 December 2023 |
of Honor Heritage Center, the Houston Museum of Decorative Arts, the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, and the Creative Discovery Museum. Chattanooga African... 202 KB (18,878 words) - 19:18, 9 May 2024 |
Pablo Casals Dizzy Gillespie Jascha Heifetz Lena Horne Leontyne Price Bessie Smith Art Tatum Sarah Vaughan 1990 Nat King Cole Miles Davis Vladimir Horowitz... 75 KB (8,609 words) - 16:11, 2 May 2024 |