Bessie Smith
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Biography:
The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of "The Empress of the Blues." Even on her first records in 1923, her passionate voice overcame the primitive recording quality of the day and still communicates easily to today's listeners (which is not true o... Continue Bio >>
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Discography:
2011 Please Help Me Get Him off My Mind
2010 Thems Graveyard Works
Bessie Smith/Louis Armstrong/Cab Calloway
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Filmography:
2007 Bessie Smith: The Blues
2004 Swing Era: Sarah Vaughan
1997 Jazz Classics for Fingerstyle Guitar, Vol. 1
1993 The Blues
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