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Smith, Bessie
Smith, Elizabeth
blues singer
| born: 15 Apr 1894 |
Chattanooga, Tennessee / state, USA |
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| born: 15 Apr 1895 |
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| born: 15 Apr 1898 |
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| born: ------- 1897 |
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| born: circa 1897 |
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| died: 26 Sep 1937 |
Clarksdale, Mississippi / state, USA |
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Blues news Openings
Living Blues N126:7 Mar-Apr 1996
port
Note: Bessie Smith Hall and Chattanooga, Tenn. African American Museum
Mahabir, C.
Wit and popular music : the calypso and the blues
Popular Music 15:55-81 N1 1996
bibliog discog notes
Mancuso, Chuck
Popular music and the underground
Foundations of jazz, blues, country, and rock, 1900-1950
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996, 626 p.
Record reviews The Chronological Bessie Smith 1925-27.
Jazz Journal International 49:42-3 Mar 1996
Record reviews Do Your Duty : the Essential Recordings of Bessie Smith
Living Blues N120:138-9 Mar-Apr 1995
port
Record reviews The Chronological Bessie Smith 1923-24.
Jazz Journal International 48:39 May 1995
Record reviews The Chronological Bessie Smith 1924-25.
Jazz Journal International 48:42-3 Oct 1995
Record reviews St. Louis Women, 1927-41.
Living Blues N120:137-8 Mar-Apr 1995
Walker-Hill, Helen S.
Music by black women composers
A bibliography of available scores
By Helen Walker-Hill
Chicago: Center for Black Music Research Columbia College, 1995, 110 p.
(Series: CBMR Monographs; 5)
McDonnell, E.
Theater Diva drama
Village Voice: 39:98 Nov 15 1994
Note: Bessie Speaks at New Federal Theatre
Blues-Les incontournables
Turin: Citanes Jazz Productions, 1994, 237 p.
Record reviews The Complete Recordings, Volume Four.
Living Blues N113:65 Jan-Feb 1994
Reitz, Rosetta
Noteworthy women : Miss Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues
Hot Wire 10:12-13+ N2 1994
biog port
Schallplattenbesprechungen The Complete Recordings Vol. 4.
Jazz Podium 43:70 Jan 1994
Reviews Complete Recordings Vol 4.
Folk Roots N134-135:73 Aug-Sep 1994
Sonnier, Austin M.
A guide to the blues : history, who's who, research sources
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994, 287 p.
Monceaux, Morgan
Marsalis, Wynton
Jazz : my music, my people
By Morgan Monceaux
Foreword by Wynton Marsalis
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, 64 p.
Reviews Do Your Duty.
Folk Roots N137:53 Nov 1994
Billard, Francois
Les chanteuses de jazz
Lieu Commun, 1994, 289 p.
Record reviews The Chronological : Vol. 1, 1923.
Jazz Journal International 47:45-6 Dec 1994
Davis, D.
Celebrating Bessie's 100th birthday
Mississippi Rag: 21:16-17 Aug 1994
illustr.
St. Pierre, Roger
The best of the blues : the essential CD guide
San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1993, 144 p.
Record reviews Empress of the Blues.
Jazz Journal International 46:33 Jun 1993
Albright, A.
Classic blues under gigantic tents
Living Blues N109:46-9 May-Jun 1993
illustr.
Grattan, Virginia L.
American women songwriters
A biographical dictionary
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993, 279 p.
Reviews Complete Recordings Vol 3.
Folk Roots N122:53 Aug 1993
Record reviews The Complete Recordings, Vols. 1-3.
American Music 11:388-90 N3 1993
Record reviews The Complete Recordings : Vol. 3.
Jazz Journal International 46:38 Dec 1993
Whitehead, K.
The awkward age (I) (The Blues 1923 to 1933)
Marmande, F.
La vie du jazz
Jazz Magazine (France) N431:23 Nov 1993
port
Record reviews Sings the Jazz.
Jazz Journal International 46:38-9 Dec 1993
Record reviews The Complete Recordings, Volume Three.
Living Blues N107:78-9 Jan-Feb 1993
Record reviews The Complete Recordings Volume 2.
Jazz Journal International 45:37 Apr 1992
Dorough, Prince
Popular-music culture in America
New York: Ardsley House Publishers Inc., c1992, 352 p.
Reissues The Complete Recordings : Vol. 2 (CD)
Blues news Bessie Smith Hall to open in Chattanooga.
Living Blues N104:9+ Jul-Aug 1992
Debord, Brigitte
Herzhaft, Gerard
Encyclopedia of the blues
Translated by Brigitte Debord
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992, 513 p.
Spencer, D.
Fine and Mellow
A study of vocal style and jazz interpretation
Jazz Research Papers (Iaje), 1992, p. 127
Mandel, Howard
Bedrock beauties (1925-1933)
Larkin, Colin
The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music
Edited by Colin Larkin
Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Publishing, 1992, 4V p.
Number of People : 5,680
Reviews The Complete Recordings Vol. 2
Folk Roots N105:55 Mar 1992
port
Record reviews La Selection 1923-1933.
Jazz Journal International 44:28 Aug 1991
Record reviews The Complete Recordings : Vol. 1.
Jazz Journal International 44:38 Oct 1991
Birnbaum, Larry
Blue light special
port
Reissues The Complete Recordings Vol. 1 (CD)
Cadence 17:18-20 Aug 1991
Reitz, Rosetta
Empress of the blues, Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
Mississippi Rag: 19:1-4+ Dec 1991
bibliog biog cover port ports il
Gray, H.
Chattanooga fest once again honors Empress of Blues
Mississippi Rag: 18:31-2 Jul 1991
illustr.
Reviews The Complete Recordings Vol. 1.
Folk Roots N98:46-7 Aug 1991
Berendt, Joachim-Ernst
The jazz book : from ragtime to fusion and beyond
Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1991, 540 p.
Birnbaum, Larry
Roots revisited
port
Note: The Complete Recordings Vol. 1
Record reviews The Complete Recordings, Volume One
Living Blues N99:51+ Sep-Oct 1991
port
CD reviews The Complete Recordings : Vol. 1
port
Byron, Toby
Welding, Pete
Bluesland : portraits of twelve major American blues masters
Edited by Pete Welding and Toby Byron
Arnaud, Gerald
Chesnel, Jacques
Masters of Jazz
Gerald arnaud and Jacques Chesnel
Gray, H.
Bessie Smith Jazzfest
Jazztimes: Oct 1990, p. 6
illustr.
Blanc, Michael la
Contemporary musicians volume 3
Edited by Michael LaBlanc
Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1990, 262 p.
Arniac, Jean-Pierre
Encyclopedie du blues
Photographies de Jean-Pierre Arniac
Davis, D.
Hometown honors Bessie Smith
Mississippi Rag: 17:10-11 Jul 1990
illustr.
Video reviews Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
Living Blues N93:47-8 Sep-Oct 1990
illustr.
Record reviews The Collection.
Jazz Journal International 43:38 Dec 1990
Les grandes voix du jazz
Paris: Editions de l'Instant, 1989, 126 p.
Puterbaugh, Parke
[The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]
Rolling Stone N545:75-82+ Feb 9 1989
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Moll, Dieter
Das Buch des Blues
Konigswinter: Heel, 1989, 245 p.
Schaal, H.J.
Schwarz auf Weiss : Jazz Geschichten
Jazz Podium 38:20+ Nov 1989
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Zimmerman, K.
Jagger, Richards kiss & make up as Rock 'n' Roll Hall honors nine
Variety 334:67 Jan 25 1989
Barlow, William
Looking up at down
The emergence of blues culture
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989, 404 p.
Worsfold, S.A.
Empress of the Blues.
Storyville, no. 25, October-November 1989. p. 28-31
Perlo, Don
Lyons, Len
Jazz portraits
The lives and music of the jazz masters
By Len Lyons and Don Perlo
New York: William Morrow, 1989, 610 p.
Astaire, Gillespie among 13 honored by NARAS
Variety 334:105 Feb 15 1989
Note: 1989 Lifetime Achievement & Trustee Awards
Arnaud, Gerald
Nougaro, Claude
Chesnel, Jacques
Les grands createurs de jazz
By Gerald Arnaud et Jacques Chesnel
Preface de Claude Nougaro
Record reviews LPs : Empress of the Blues.
Jazz Journal International 42:28-9 Jan 1989
Reeditions The Collection.
Jazz Magazine (France) N387:60 Nov 1989
Patrick, J.
Twelve bars by Bessie Smith
Jazz Educators Journal 21:39-40 N2 1989
mus port
Rieth, M.
Elends-Romantik, Swing und kaltheisse Wut
Neue Musikzeitung 37:14-15 Aug-Sep 1988
illustr.
Note: Cosmopolitan Greetings
Harrison, Daphne Duval
Wild women don't have the blues
Living Blues N79:25-30 Mar-Apr 1988
illustr.
Lesle, Lutz
Grenzuberschreitendes zum Abschied
Cosmopolitan Greetings von und mit Liebermann
Orchester, Das 36:923-5 Sep 1988
illustr.
Kernfeld, Barry Dean
The new Grove dictionary of jazz
Edited by Barry Kernfeld
London: Macmillan Press, 1988
Number of People : 3,377
Parisi, P.
New Philadelphia Hall of Fame honors 10 artists
Billboard 99:86 May 2 1987
illustr.
Floyd, Samuel A. Jr.
Black music biography : an annotated bibliography
White Plains, New York: Kraus International Publications, 1987
CD reviews
Down Beat 54:48+ Dec 1987
Parker's sparklers on BBC Records : Great Original Performances 1925-1933.
Jazz Journal International 39:42 Dec 1986
Whitburn, Joel
Joel Whitburn's Pop memories 1890-1954
The history of American popular music compiled form America's popular music charts 1890-1954
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc., 1986, 657 p.
Number of People : 1,376
McGuire, P.
Black music critics and the classic blues singers
Black Perspective in Music: 14:104-7+ N2 1986
port
Record reviews Great Original Performances 1925-1933.
Footnote 18:35-6 N2 1986-1987
Mellers, Wilfred Howard
Angels of the night
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986
Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.
Number of People : 3,993
Chilton, John
Simmen, John
Who's who of jazz : Storyville to Swing Street
Foreword by John Simmen
London: Macmillan, 1985, 175 p.
Number of People : 1,172
Feinstein, Elaine
Bessie Smith.
Harmondsworth: Penguin 1985. 105 S.
Mit Taf. u. Faks.
(Series: Lives of modern women)
Leder, Jan
Women in jazz. A discography of instrumentalists 1913-1968
Compiled by Jan Leder
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985, 305 p.
(Series: Discographies; 19)
Placksin, Sally
Jazzwomen : 1900 to the present their words, lives, and music
London: Pluto Press, 1985
Discography : performers and groups
p. 307 In:
Dahl, Linda
Stormy Weather
The music and lives of a century of jazz women
By Linda Dahl
New York: Pantheon Books, 1984, 371 p.
Ladies who sang the blues
Music Educators Journal 71:52 Sep 1984
Note: includes recommended books and records
Massingale, R.W.
Black women in jazz
School Musician: 56:14-15 Oct 1984
biog
Record reviews The Songs of Bessie Smith.
Jazz Journal International 37:21 Jun 1984
Linder, Lasse
Bluesens legender : Bessie Smith.
Jefferson [Sweden] no. 60 (Spring 1983):22-23.
Polillo, Arrigo
Jazz : la vicenda e i protagonisti della musica afro-americana
Milan: Amoldo Mondadori Editore, 1983, 789 p.
[Portrait : Bessie Smith]
Village Voice: 28:64-5 Feb 15 1983
Genova, A. de
Dreamin' on
illustr.
Note: The Little Dreamer: A Nite in the Life of Bessie Smith
Brooks, Edward
The Bessie Smith Companion.
A Critical and Detailed Appreciation of the Recordings
Wheathampstead, England: Cavendish
New York: Da Capo, 1982. 229 p.
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