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, ...

Jazz is noted for celebrating some of its brightest stars with dazzling titles. The names in the pantheon of jazz royalty ...

Some have proposed that the “Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite” portion is a reference to bedding, and the goal of ...

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Bessie Smith thought she was signing a lucrative deal in 1923 with a white executive, Frank Buckley Walker, who oversaw “race records” for Columbia. Walker crossed out the royalty clause in ...

For fans of Ronnie Earl, Allman Brothers, Gregg Allman, Hammond B3 Organ,Jazz, Jam band🎟️ - TICKETS Bruce Katz is a ...

She was preceded in death by sisters, Erma Smith, Pauline Wolfgang, Bessie Smith, and Arlene Krah; as well as; a brother, Billie Haas. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM Thursday ...

focusing largely on early 20th century jazz and blues a la Bessie Smith, Fats Waller and Slim Gaillard. Lake relocated to Asheville, North Carolina, a few years back after a career-defining stint ...

Margaret Chase Smith, Bessie Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jimmy Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gilbert Stuart, Anne Sullivan, William Howard Taft, Maria Tallchief, Maxwell Taylor, Tecumseh ...