History of the Blues There is little exact information a 
.... blues probably developed in the rural area known as the Mississippi Delta and was then adapted to the style of popular vocalists such as
Bessie Smith (a style ....
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The Blues as a Musical Genre
.... Classic city blues evolved in the 1920s and 1930s in the singing of Ma Rainey,
Bessie Smith, and others and blues then became as much a style of women ....
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Albee
The Zoo Story, The Death of
Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung were all released during Albee's thirties between 1959 and ....
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JAZZ ANECDOTES
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Bessie Smith, a legendary blues singer, died because a hospital would not admit her because she was black, and before she could get to a hospital that treated ....
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Edward Albee
The Zoo Story, The Death of
Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung were all released during Albee's thirties between 1959 and ....
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Aretha Franklin
.... At first, Hammond "guided her in the direction of classic jazz and blues singers such as
Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday" (Helander 200). ....
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Aretha Franklin
.... At first, Hammond "guided her in the direction of classic jazz and blues singers such as
Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday" (Helander 200). ....
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Blues and Dinah Washington
.... it blues, call it whatever, there was nothing like it to touch the heart of even the most hardened individual." She was influenced by
Bessie Smith and Billie ....
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Anita O'Day
.... Friedwald, Will. Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from
Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Leonard, Neil. ....
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WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS
.... With the help of Edward Clark and
Bessie Tyler, two fund raisers in Atlanta .... the rising Catholic population and the possibility that a Catholic, Al
Smith of New ....
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Forms of Jazz
.... and at rent parties by such Black pianists as Pine Top
Smith; Cripple Clarence .... were other 'Smiths' with no relation to each other: Who, with
Bessie and Mamie ....
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