American carnage in songs for each of the five stops on an inter-city Greyhound. Two days after Donald Trump declared victory ...

Barbara Dane, who has died aged 97, was a folk, jazz and blues singer and guitarist whose career was underpinned by her Left-wing politics; her collaborators over the years ranged from Louis Armstrong ...

“And I spent a lot of time listening to Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and Dinah ... Minnie and I’ve always loved Bessie Smith.” Paying homage to the roots of the ...

Armstrong gave her a career a big boost by ... the influential jazz critic Leonard Feather called her “Bessie Smith in stereo.” “I was very timid about approaching the blues,” Ms. Dane ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach ...

It begins with Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues ... the legendary vocalist and trumpet player Louis Armstrong. Economic exploitation was one aspect, but emotional abuse and trauma were ...

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Born in Vernon, Texas, in 1905, Teagarden soon became acquainted with the music of local tent revivals and was influenced by Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith records. He took up the trombone at age 7 ...

and recorded by the likes of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, to name but two. Among the many treasures on the 50th-anniversary deluxe edition of The White Album was this storming cover of a ...

It was perhaps only natural that the woman dubbed The Queen Of The Blues in the 50s should pay tribute to the original Empress Of The Blues, Bessie ... albums to Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong ...

James Monroe Iglehart and a stellar ensemble are absolutely mesmerizing in a timely biographical musical about the life and ...