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...The term belongs among the many honorifics in black American pop, from Bessie Smith’s “Empress of the Blues” to the superlative boasts of hip-hop culture....
...It’s a history of black women musicians, from Aretha Franklin to Bessie Smith to Beyoncé, and shows how they’ve informed intellectual life and the black female sound.”...
...The installation draws on two films that document Clark’s early years: 1984’s Hail the New Puritan for Channel 4, and 1989’s Because We Must....
...They may have been grateful to learn that he had sent his pet bear Bessie to the zoo on the grounds that “breeding bears in a private establishment is something which is not very practical”....
...Second number in, Ellington”s “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” started with sax and ended with Shepp’s gruff and gritty baritone and an authentic blues shout....
...At one extreme there are old-established family businesses such as Andrew Marr International, the Hull fish trading giant, William Jackson, producers of Aunt Bessie’s frozen foods, and Oldroyd and Sons,...
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