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, ...

Grandma Off-Broadway The American Dream/ The Death of Bessie Smith 1961 Jack (Bessie Smith) Off-Broadway The American Dream/ The Death of Bessie Smith 1961 Mommy Off-Broadway The American Dream ...

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 ...

The Devil's Gonna Get You; Aggravatin' Papa; Oh Daddy Blues; Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out; Don't Cry Baby; Today; Interlude; Mam'selle Marie; Mourn You Mourners; Baby Won't You Please ...

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 ...

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.