History came to life Thursday evening at Galveston’s Old Central Cultural Center as early 20th-century Black pioneers Bessie ...

The White Sulphur Springs Public Library will host a living history performance portraying blues legend Bessie Smith at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26.

ANN ARBOR, Mich – Ann Arbor's Theatre Nova has announced an extension of its smash hit "The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith" by Angelo Parra. The show was slated to run through April ...

Program notes by George Avakian on container. Performer(s): Blues songs; Bessie Smith, vocals ; with Louis Armstrong, cornet ; Fred Longshaw, harmonium or piano (tracks 1-10) ; Irving Johns, piano ...

The Bessie Smith Cultural Center will present a full month of events this June celebrating African American history, culture and music. "From honoring Negro League baseball legends to uplifting ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Bessie Smith's birthday today! “Empress of the Blues” She embodied the meaning of the blues, living the life she sang about. Bessie Smith set the standard for blues ...

“I wrung my hands and I wanted to scream / But when I woke up I found it was only a dream.” There she stood at Columbia’s studio in New York to record this song in September 1923. She and pianist ...

A film clip with Bessie Smith singing in St. Louis Blues. It consists of a single reel of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film with variable-area optical sound. The clip opens with Bessie ...

Chris Albertson, who as a teenager in Denmark became captivated by blues singer Bessie Smith and decades later produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of her recordings and wrote an equally ...