How To Use Bessie Smith In A Sentence
- Jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux has covered songs by artists ranging from blueswoman Bessie Smith to alternative rocker Elliott Smith. Singing Her Own Song
- But BBC producer Anthony Geffen, with directors Edmund Coulthard and Nick Godwin and writer Mark Hay-hurst, have given "The Promised Land" an intensely American rhythm, propelled by an extraordinary score by artists such as jazzman Louis Armstrong, blues singerBessie Smith and rap group Public Enemy and original music by Terence Blanchard, who scored Spike Lee's "Malcolm X. When Heaven Turned To Hell
- Bessie Smith first recorded in 1923, launching a blues career that would have no parallel during the classic blues era.
- Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Charlie Parker: all had to struggle against handicaps to become successful artists.
- Likewise, the girls reach for the music to express themselves in 26 songs - hot and bothered, horny or forlorn - that reignite the torches of Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Billie Holiday.
- Brent, with four Blues Foundation 2009 Blues Music Awards nominations, is a piano-playing blueswoman who's been described as "Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin. Undefined
- Early 20th century belter Bessie Smith was buried in a pauper's grave until '60s rock stalwart Janis Joplin bought her a marker.
