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...It’s there in the slow-burning plots: will Nicholas (Billy Howle) realise that he’s in love with Fenny (Bessie Carter)? Will Dora and Cynthia be reconciled? What will become of the next generation?...
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...The first set opened with “You Put the Sugar in My Bowl”, a track from Giddens’ soon-to-be-released album You’re the One that references similarly titled songs by Bessie Smith and Nina Simone....
...It’s been 100 years since now legendary poets such as Langston Hughes and Blues singers like Bessie Smith helped sear this Upper Manhattan quarter into America’s cultural consciousness during Harlem’s fabled...
...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.”...
...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....
...Cab Calloway released “Minnie the Moocher”, about a rough, tough woman with a heart “as big as a whale”, which went on to sell a million copies; Bessie Smith sang unequivocally about sex in “Need a Little...
...a 1992 stage production in which he performed his own birth with his mother, Bessie, on stage and with Bowery as midwife). In more recent performances, Clark has appeared on stage only fleetingly....
...But the song that brings the house down and brings the show back to its base — to the dragging poverty and worn-out struggle of Depression-era America — is Bessie Smith’s “Wasted Life Blues”, which Clarke...
...Van Vechten’s pictures of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston and Ethel Waters stress their hard-earned dignity....
...I enjoy traditional jazz such as Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith. I have a compilation used by Woody Allen in his films, which has a range from Louis Armstrong to quite a traditional jazz....
...I sing a song that Bessie Smith sings, it’s called ‘You Ought to be Ashamed’....
...Bessie Smith’s “Sam Jones Blues” was delivered with a barrelhouse growl, The Beatles’ “And I Love Her” (here becoming “him”) with affection, and “Never Will I Marry” with confident defiance....
...The follow-up, Bessie, a well-reviewed biopic of blues singer Bessie Smith, was made by HBO cable network in 2015....
...The 20-track programme is organised into four sections, ending with “The Blues”, and includes covers of Ellington, Bessie Smith and The Beatles — “She Loves You” is one of ten unsentimental “Love Songs”....
...The greats — Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey — tend to have their own albums....
...LGBT people of all kinds have this lineage too — he mentions black bisexual singer Bessie Smith and black gay novelist James Baldwin....
...There were Ellington and Monk covers and, perhaps in recognition of Shepp’s prowess as a vocalist, there were somewhat generic originals dedicated to singers Sarah Vaughan and Bessie Smith....
...“It seems the Scottish government is hell bent on meddling in governance and exerting more and more control over the sector,” Ms Smith said....
...“Growlin’ Dan”, a nod to Bessie Smith, is followed by “Stepsisters’ Lament”, a pithy tale of sibling rivalry, while a pointillist “Le Mal De Vivre” is followed by a bravura “Something’s Coming”, from West...
...Norman Soutar, chief executive of William Jackson Food, best known for Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire puddings, said sales had increased 54 per cent since 2012....
...She moans and growls the classic blues of Bessie Smith, tiptoes through obscure ragtime ditties and stamps chanson with the authenticity of her French-speaking roots — her father is Haitian and her mother...
...The Bessie Smith records he loved will crackle in the background....
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