Bessie Smith Jazz
Posted on Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 4:20 amBessie Smith Jazz
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St Louis Blues with Bessie Smith Art Print
$9.99 New 11 x 14 inch Art Print. Printed on Thick 250gsm Art Card... |
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Bessie Smith ~ Empress of the Blues ~ Classic Poster Print ~ Approx 24 X 36 Inches
This Bessie Smith "Empress of the Blues" vintage poster is approx. 24'' x 36''... |
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Ladies Sing the Blues [VHS]
$2.00 Culled from rare black-and-white footage from the early to mid-20th century, this excellent anthology showcases a number of gems from the best and brightest female vocalists in America. There's the radiant "Empress of the Blues" Bessie Smith in her only recorded film appearance singing "St. Louis Blues." The gospel great Sister Rosetta Tharpe delivers a down-home version of "That Lonesome Roa... |
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At the Jazz Band Ball - Early Hot Jazz, Song and Dance [VHS]
$4.95 At the Jazz Band Ball features rare, archival film clips from 1925 to 1933 that showcase a wonderful potpourri of musicians, bandleaders, singers, dancers, and entertainers that characterized the best of the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age. The range of this collection represents early 20th-century Americana, from the hometown charm of the Boswell sisters performing the jazz-scat classic ... |
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THE LADIES Sing The Blues
$9.34 No Description Available.Genre: Music Video - JazzRating: NRRelease Date: 22-AUG-2001Media Type: DVD... |
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Masters of American Music: Bluesland - A Portrait in American Music
$10.81 Bluesland A Portrait in AmericanMusic explores the blues, with allits poetic irony and sly humour, its eroticism and timeless power. A uniquely creative and highly visual look at American blues, Bluesland travels the expansive landscape of themusic, tracing its roots from the beginning of the 20th century through the Mississippi Delta to Louisiana, Texas, Kansas City and Chicago. With rare and mem... |
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At the Jazz Band Ball - Early Hot Jazz, Song and Dance
$13.88 At the Jazz Band Ball features rare, archival film clips from 1925 to 1933 that showcase a wonderful potpourri of musicians, bandleaders, singers, dancers, and entertainers that characterized the best of the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age. The range of this collection represents early 20th-century Americana, from the hometown charm of the Boswell sisters performing the jazz-scat classic ... |
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Complete Recordings, Volume 5
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
$9.97 The female blues singers of the 1920s, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, and Bessie Smith, not only invented a musical genre, but they also became models of how African American women could become economically independent in a culture that had not previously allowed it. Both Smith and Rainey composed, arranged, and managed their own road bands. Angela Y. Davis's study emphasizes the impact that th... |
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Bessie: Revised and expanded edition
$17.60 This book—a revised and expanded edition of the definitive biography of Bessie Smith, known as the “Empress of the Bluesâ—debunks many of the myths that circulated after her untimely death in 1937. For this new edition, Chris Albertson provides more details of Bessieâs early years, new interview material, and a chapter devoted to events and responses that followed the orig... |
Bessie Smith (the blues/jazz singer)?
So I have to write a report for history on Bessie Smith. I have been using Wikipedia for most of my information on her, but I have to use multiple sites for this project. So i’m going on to different sites and they are giving me totally different information. For example – on Wikipedia it says that Bessie Smith’s first husband was Jack Gee and she left him and later on married someone else, but it doesn’t say who it was. And then other websites I am going to, say that Jack Gee was her second husband and she stayed with him, till she died. Usually I trust Wikipedia to have the correct facts, but I don’t know now. If any one has anything that can help me on this, please do. Thank you so much. 
First of all……listen to what Martin says about Wikipedia. Here’s the short version answer…… Bessie Smith was married, for a short time, to a man named Earl Love. Not much , if anything, is known about him….except that he died and left Bessie a widow. Her second husband was Jack Gee. They had a very tumultuous relationship…..due in large part to her many affairs ( a large number being with other women) and they often wound up beating each other bloody.
