This website was very useful in different ways, such as how it tells you about how she was brought u in poverty and how she ran away at the age of 15 and continued to perform in theaters. It also stated, "During her recording career, Bessie Smith worked with many important jazz performers, such as saxophonist Sidney Bechet and pianists Fletcher Henderson and James P. Johnson. With Johnson, she recorded one of her most famous songs, “Back Water Blues.” Smith also collaborated with the legendary jazz artist Louis Armstrong on several tunes, including “Cold in Hand Blues” and “I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle.” By the late 1920s, Bessie Smith’s career began to flounder. She stopped working with Columbia in 1931 and made her final recordings in 1933 with John Hammond. A dedicated performer, Smith still continued to tour."
Thursday, October 23, 2008
4th annotation
Smith, Elizabeth. "Bessie Smith Biography." bio true story. 2007. 14 Nov 2008 .
This website was very useful in different ways, such as how it tells you about how she was brought u in poverty and how she ran away at the age of 15 and continued to perform in theaters. It also stated, "During her recording career, Bessie Smith worked with many important jazz performers, such as saxophonist Sidney Bechet and pianists Fletcher Henderson and James P. Johnson. With Johnson, she recorded one of her most famous songs, “Back Water Blues.” Smith also collaborated with the legendary jazz artist Louis Armstrong on several tunes, including “Cold in Hand Blues” and “I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle.” By the late 1920s, Bessie Smith’s career began to flounder. She stopped working with Columbia in 1931 and made her final recordings in 1933 with John Hammond. A dedicated performer, Smith still continued to tour."
This website was very useful in different ways, such as how it tells you about how she was brought u in poverty and how she ran away at the age of 15 and continued to perform in theaters. It also stated, "During her recording career, Bessie Smith worked with many important jazz performers, such as saxophonist Sidney Bechet and pianists Fletcher Henderson and James P. Johnson. With Johnson, she recorded one of her most famous songs, “Back Water Blues.” Smith also collaborated with the legendary jazz artist Louis Armstrong on several tunes, including “Cold in Hand Blues” and “I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle.” By the late 1920s, Bessie Smith’s career began to flounder. She stopped working with Columbia in 1931 and made her final recordings in 1933 with John Hammond. A dedicated performer, Smith still continued to tour."
Acknowledgement of Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith was a famous African American blues singers born into a time period of segregation, she was acknowledged for her singing but not for her courage. Being loved by not only blacks but whites as well, there were plenty of obstacles and situations that stood in her way.
3rd Annotation
"The Red Hot Jazz Archive." Bessie Smith 1. 17 Oct 2008 .
This website gives alot of information on Bessie Smith's personality. According to the website, she was a rough, crude, violent women. She was talented. She had a strong voice and she was famous and popular to both blacks and whites. Eventually people grew tired of her but she was still very popular in the south.
This website also talks about the kind of music Bessie Smith made. She was really popular in the 1920's. Some of her famous songs include "a good man is hard to find", "any woman's blues", and "baby doll".
This website gives alot of information on Bessie Smith's personality. According to the website, she was a rough, crude, violent women. She was talented. She had a strong voice and she was famous and popular to both blacks and whites. Eventually people grew tired of her but she was still very popular in the south.
This website also talks about the kind of music Bessie Smith made. She was really popular in the 1920's. Some of her famous songs include "a good man is hard to find", "any woman's blues", and "baby doll".
2nd Annotation
Burns, Ken. "Bessie Smith." Biographies. October 2008. PBS.org. 20 Oct 2008 .
This website was very helpful. It gives certain details about Bessie Smith. Bessie Smith began her professional career in 1912 by singing in the same show as Ma Rainey, and subsequently performed in various touring minstrel shows and cabarets. By the 1920s, she was a leading artist in black shows on the TOBA circuit and at the 81 Theatre in Atlanta. After further tours she was sought out by Clarence Williams to record in New York. Her first recording, Down-Hearted Blues, established her as the most successful black performing artist of her time. She recorded regularly until 1928 with important early jazz instrumentalists such as Williams, James P. Johnson, and various members of Fletcher Henderson's band, including Louis Armstrong, Charlie Green, Joe Smith, and Tommy Ladnier. I think this will help us understand how Bessie Smith started her career as a blues singer.
This website was very helpful. It gives certain details about Bessie Smith. Bessie Smith began her professional career in 1912 by singing in the same show as Ma Rainey, and subsequently performed in various touring minstrel shows and cabarets. By the 1920s, she was a leading artist in black shows on the TOBA circuit and at the 81 Theatre in Atlanta. After further tours she was sought out by Clarence Williams to record in New York. Her first recording, Down-Hearted Blues, established her as the most successful black performing artist of her time. She recorded regularly until 1928 with important early jazz instrumentalists such as Williams, James P. Johnson, and various members of Fletcher Henderson's band, including Louis Armstrong, Charlie Green, Joe Smith, and Tommy Ladnier. I think this will help us understand how Bessie Smith started her career as a blues singer.
Friday, October 17, 2008
1st Annotation 4 NHD
The Red Hot Jazz Archive. " Bessie Smith " Oct. 17, 2008. http://www.redhotjazz.com/bessie.html
This website is about who Bessie Smith really is. the article states that she a rough, crude, and violent women.
She was also the greatest of the classic blues singers of the 1920"s. Bessie Joined a traveling show as a dancing
and singer. In 1923 she made her recording debut on Columbia accompanied by pianist Clarence Williams and
recorded " Gulf Coast Blues" and " Down hearted blues". She also was one of the the biggest African American
stars of the 1920's and was popular with both Whites and African americans. Bessie Smith later on died in a
tragic car accident, while driving with lovers Richard Morgan their car rear-ended a slow moving truck and
rolled over crushing Bessie left arm arm ribs. Smith bled to death by the time she reached the hospital.
John Hammond caused quite a stir by writing an article in Downbeat magazine suggesting that Smith
had bled to death because she had been taken to a White hospital and had been turned away. This
proved not to be true, but the rumor persists to this day.
This article was very helpful to me because it gave me a lot of information on her success and how her life
ended tragically at a young age. From what I read I believe this a Secondary Source because somebody else
wrote it that was not from that time period.
This website is about who Bessie Smith really is. the article states that she a rough, crude, and violent women.
She was also the greatest of the classic blues singers of the 1920"s. Bessie Joined a traveling show as a dancing
and singer. In 1923 she made her recording debut on Columbia accompanied by pianist Clarence Williams and
recorded " Gulf Coast Blues" and " Down hearted blues". She also was one of the the biggest African American
stars of the 1920's and was popular with both Whites and African americans. Bessie Smith later on died in a
tragic car accident, while driving with lovers Richard Morgan their car rear-ended a slow moving truck and
rolled over crushing Bessie left arm arm ribs. Smith bled to death by the time she reached the hospital.
John Hammond caused quite a stir by writing an article in Downbeat magazine suggesting that Smith
had bled to death because she had been taken to a White hospital and had been turned away. This
proved not to be true, but the rumor persists to this day.
This article was very helpful to me because it gave me a lot of information on her success and how her life
ended tragically at a young age. From what I read I believe this a Secondary Source because somebody else
wrote it that was not from that time period.
Topic Selection NHD 2009
I chose Bessie Smith as my individual in history this year for NHD because she was one of the biggest popular star in the 1920's and I am interested in the popularity of African American during segregation time periods. This person is important to history because without her efforts she inspired people to live out their dream and to not let anything stand in their way on achieving them. As an African American female she has had a great impact on history because maybe being the most popular blues singer of the 1920's she allowed African American women to have more rights. For this week's research I found a article at http://www.redhotjazz.com/bessie.html and next week I will actually read and summarize this article.
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