The Bessie Smith Story

VA - ABC Of The Blues: Box Set (2010) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Feb. 22, 2015

VA - ABC Of The Blues: Box Set (2010)
Blues, Jazz, Soul, Swing, Folk | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 6.73 Gb
Label: Red General Catalog | Release Year: 2010

This 52 disc Ultimate Collection features music from the Delta to the Big Cities. This special first edition also includes a historic puck harmonica. How blue can you get? You will find your favorites here and discover some hidden gems, as the 'ABC of the Blues' brings together the best of the best.

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Various Artists - Nothing But The Blues 1923-1948 (1998) {40CD Box Set Remastered - The International Music Company AG} Music

Posted by ruskaval at Feb. 25, 2017

Various Artists - Nothing But The Blues 1923-1948 (1998) {40CD Box Set Remastered - The International Music Company AG}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 5.16 Gb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 678 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1923-48, 1998 The International Music Company AG, Germany | 201931-302 A/B ~ 201950-302 A/B
Blues / Traditional Blues / Acoustic Blues / Electric Blues / Regional Blues / Folk Blues

40 CD box set. Artists include John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson, Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, Memphis Minnie, John Lee Hooker, Big Joe Williams and many more. 725 tracks all digitally remastered to enhance the original recordings without manipulating the character of the music. Recordings made between 1923 and 1948. 20 double slimline jewel cases housed together in a cardboard box.

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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound eBooks & eLearning

Posted by IrGens at Dec. 18, 2022

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VA - Put The Whole Armour On: Female Black Gospel: The 1940s-1950s (2019) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 13, 2024

VA - Put The Whole Armour On: Female Black Gospel: The 1940s-1950s (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 539 MB MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 410 MB
2:29:01 | Gospel, Soul | Label: Narro Way

This quote, which accompanies a vintage photograph of three African American women lifting their hands heavenward, is not only featured prominently in Put the Whole Armour On, a two-CD tribute to 1940s and 1950s female gospel artists, but it serves as an apt prelude to the collection. That is, notwithstanding the prominence of women in African American churches, most denominations did not allow women to become pastors. In response, some females became evangelists, saving souls through street corner oratory as well as gospel music. The 54 selections curated for this collection cover some of the most popular gospel singers of the golden era like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Ward, and Mahalia Jackson. Included is Jackson’s initial and unsuccessful but plaintively rendered Apollo Records release “I’m Going to Tell God.” The package also introduces lesser-known figures such as Madam Ernestin Martin, Mary Frazier, and Mari Brown, whose lilting voice delicately delivers “Did You Stop to Pray This Morning” with R&B pioneers the Johnny Moore Trio.

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Bessie (2015) Movies

Posted by JohnSmith at Aug. 14, 2015

Bessie (2015)
BDRip | MKV / AVC@940 kb/s | 720x406 | 1h 51mn | 844 MB | English: AAC, 110 kb/s (2 ch)
BRRip | MKV / AVC@1480 kb/s | 720x400 | 1h 51mn | 1.46 GB | English: AC3, 384 kb/s (6 ch)
BDRip 720p | MKV / AVC@5472 kb/s | 1280x720 | 1h 51mn | 5.46 GB | English: DTS, 1509 kb/s (6 ch)
Genre: Biography | Drama | Music

The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

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Liner Notes for the Revolution : The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound eBooks & eLearning

Posted by readerXXI at July 5, 2021

Liner Notes for the Revolution : The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
by Daphne A. Brooks
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0674052811 | 609 Pages | PDF | 68 MB

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Hannibal & The Sunrise Orchestra - Hannibal In Berlin (1977/2015) [Official Digital Download 24/88] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Jan. 17, 2023

Hannibal & The Sunrise Orchestra - Hannibal In Berlin (1977/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 45:27 minutes | 914 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

This album was recorded live at the 1976 Berlin Jazz Festival. Pianist Cochrane and cellist Murray are once again on board, and tenor saxophonist George Adams, whose work in Charles Mingus’ last great band had already put him on the map, is a welcome addition.

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Various Artists - Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music [5CD] (2000) Music

Posted by yako at Dec. 7, 2007

Various Artists - Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music [5CD] (2000)
MP3 | 256 Kbps | 680 Mb

In conjunction with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' ten-part 2000 PBS special, Columbia/Legacy and Verve teamed up to issue a special series of reissues covering much of the history of 20th century jazz. The central release of this program is the five-CD box set Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music, its 94 selections covering the history of 20th century jazz, from 1917 to the mid-'90s.

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VA - Jazz The Smithsonian Anthology (2011) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 4, 2024

VA - Jazz The Smithsonian Anthology (2011)
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7:46:39 | Bop, Contemporary Jazz, Ragtime, Big Band, Swing, Hard Bop, Cool Jazz, Latin Jazz | Label: Smithsonian Folkways

This lavish 111-track, six-CD box set attempts the impossible – to tell the whole story of jazz. Essentially an updated version of 1987’s out of print The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, this expanded anthology is wonderfully diverse in the story it tells, with tracks from jazz artists across the stylistic board, from Stan Kenton to Sun Ra, Bill Evans to Chick Corea, Louis Armstrong to Cecil Taylor, with stops everywhere in between, and any conceivable branch of the genre is represented by at least one selection. That’s the good news. The bad news is that whole phases of jazz’s complicated history are treated like three-minute whistle stops so that the train can stay on schedule and on track. That said, it’s an impressive survey, and wonderfully assembled and annotated.

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V.A. - The Story Of Vocal Jazz 1941-1953 [10CD Box Set] (2004) Music

Posted by gribovar at April 1, 2020

A chronological history of jazz vocal presented by André Francis and Jean Schwarz. 10 CDs with more than 12 hours of music.
The resulting 2 boxed sets of 10 CDs in each, unlike any other available today, groups together the main vocalists in the story of jazz from the first half of the 20th century. Each of these 20 CDs offers in more or less the same proportion, the purest of African-American song with gospel and blues singers, from truculent Ma Rainey to majestic Bessie Smith, sophisticated Sarah Vaughan to popular Louis Prima, the folk-related tones of Charlie Patton to the honeyed voice of Frank Sinatra.

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