HBO’s Bessie struts onto the screen with bisexual swagger, Ma Rainey‑sized sisterhood, and Dee Rees’s unapologetically queer ...

She embodied the meaning of the blues, living the life she sang about. Bessie Smith set the standard for blues singers on how it should be done. Bessie Smith, born on Apr. 15, 1894, in Chattanooga, ...

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker, top, pioneered the jump blues style of the 1940s, and BB King, above, headed the blues revival in the 1960s Chattanooga-born Bessie Smith, nicknamed the Empress of the ...

But this wasn’t someone she sat with at school. In fact, it was a woman she had never met – the legendary blues singer Bessie Smith. Jackie’s first introduction to Bessie came in the form of ...

One Mo' Time recreates a hot, sultry night at New Orleans' Lyric Theatre in 1926, home to Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey among others. During the show, five performers and a five-piece band belt out ...

How many Broadway shows has Bessie Smith been in? Bessie Smith has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Bessie Smith been in? Bessie Smith has not appeared in the West End.