Person
ISNI: 
0000 0001 2022 5643
https://isni.org/isni/0000000120225643
Name: 
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (American blues singer)
Bessie Smith (Amerikaans straatartieste (1894-1937))
Bessie Smith (cantante estadounidense)
Bessie Smith (cantante statunitense)
Bessie Smith (chanteuse américaine)
Bessie Smith (US-amerikanische Bluessängerin)
Bessie Smithová
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Bessie (chanteuse)
Smith, Bessie Mae
Smith, Elizabeth
The Empress of the Blues
Беси Смит
Бессі Сміт
Смит, Бесси
Բեսսի Սմիթ
בסי סמית
بسی اسمیت
ベッシー・スミス
贝西史密斯
Dates: 
asi 1894-1937
Creation class: 
Kit
Language material
Musical sound recording
Notated music
Projected medium
Creation role: 
author
composer
creator
lyricist
performer
singer
vocalist
Related names: 
Armstrong, Louis
Armstrong, Louis (1901-1971)
Armstrong, Louis (co-performer)
Asbjørnsen, Kristin (co-performer)
Bailey, Buster (co-performer)
Beiderbecke, Bix (co-performer)
Bessie Smith & Her Blue Boys (isMemberOf)
Bessie Smith & Her Down Home Trio (isMemberOf)
Burnett, Charles (co-author)
Cabu (co-author)
Cox, Ida (co-performer)
Fitzgerald, Ella (co-performer)
Green, Charlie (1900-1936)
Green, Charlie (co-performer)
Handy, William Christopher
Henderson, Fletcher (1897-1952)
Henderson, Fletcher (co-performer)
Holiday, Billie (1915-1959)
Holiday, Billie (co-performer)
Horne, Lena (co-performer)
Johnson, Tommy (co-performer)
Murphy, Dudley (co-performer)
Newton Howard, James (co-author)
Nippoldt, Robert (co-author)
Rainey, Ma (co-performer)
Schmidt, Andrzej (1922- ))
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Joe (1902-1937)
Smith, Joe (co-performer)
Terry, George N.
White, Josh
Williams, Clarence (1898-1965)
Župan, Ivica (novinar)
Titles: 
19 Reflective Recordings
1923-1933 Empress of the Blues
1925-1933
After You've Gone / Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Try to Two-Time Me)
ain't gonna play no second fiddle, I
ain't got nobody, I
Alexander's ragtime band
American Legends - Bessie Smith
American Splendor
Anthologie du jazz vocal Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan...
Anthology, The
Any woman's blues
At the Christmas ball
Baby doll
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home Blues / Oh Daddy Blues
Back-Water Blues / Preachin' the Blues
Backwater Blues
Beale Street mama
Beautiful Tomorrow
Bessie's Blues
Bessie Smith 1925-1933
Bessie Smith Blues Queen
Bessie Smith, empress of the blues
Bessie Smith revisited live in concert
Bessie Smith Sings the Jazz
Bessie Smith Story, Volume 1, The
bessie Smith, the greatest blues singer in the world
Bessie Smith Vol. 2 'St. Louis Blues': Original Recordings 1924-1925
Best Of, The
Black mountain blues
Bleeding Hearted Blues
Blue Blue
Blue spirit blues
Blues Collection 9: Classic Blues, The
Blues Collection: Bessie Smith, Classic Blues, The
Blues queen the definitive collection
Boweavil blues
Cake Walking Babies (From Home) / Young Woman's Blues
Careless Love Blues / He's Gone Blues
Cemetery Blues
Charly Blues Masterworks, Volume 31: Empress of the Blues
Chattanooga Gal: Careless Love Blues
Chattanooga Gal: Down Hearted Blues
Chattanooga Gal: Me & My Gin
Chattanooga Gal: Young Woman Blues
Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1923-1924, The
Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1924-1925, The
Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1925-1927, The
Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1927-1928, The
Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1928-1929, The
Chronological Classics: Bessie Smith 1929–1933, The
Classic blues
Cold in hand blues
Collection, The
complete Columbia recordings, The
Complete Recordings, Vol. 3, The
Complete Recordings Vol. 5: The Final Chapter, The
Complete Recordings, Volume 1, The
Complete Recordings, Volume 2, The
Complete Recordings, Volume 3, The
Complete Recordings, Volume 4, The
Complete Recordings, Volume 5, The
Complete Recordings, Volume 6, The
Complete Recordings, Volume 7, The
Complete Recordings, Volume 8, The
Devil's fire
Devil's Gonna Get You
Dixie flyer blues
Do Your Duty / I'm Down in the Dumps
Don't Cry Baby / You Don't Understand
Down Hearted Blues / Gulf Coast Blues
Down in the Dumps
Downhearted Blues (Original 1923-1924 Recordings)
Dyin' by the hour
Easy Come Easy Go Blues / Frosty Morining Blues
Empress Of The Blues - Volume 2: 1926 - 1933
Empty Bed Blues (Part 1 & 2)
Essence of Bessie Smith, The
Essential Bessie Smith, The
Fest' in jazz
Foolish man blues
Génies du Jazz (Tome 1, No. 12): Bessie Smith, Les
GIMME A PIG FOOT
Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer)
Gimmie a Pigfoot / Take Me for a Buggy Ride
Gin House Blues / Lost Your Head Blues, The
Gold Collection: 40 Classic Performances, The
good man is hard to find, A
Good Old Wagon Blues
Graveyard dream blues
Great original performances 1925-1933
Greatest Hits
Gulf Coast Blues, The
Hard driving papa
Hard time blues
Haunted House Blues / Eavesdropper's Blues
He’s Got Me Goin’ / It Makes My Love Come Down
Hell blues on my trail
I'm Coming Home
I'm wild about that thing
I've been mistreated and I don't like it
I've Got What It Takes - Vol. 5: Original Recordings 1929-1933
If you don't I know who will
In the House Blues / Blue Blues
Introduction to Bessie Smith: Her Best Recordings 1923-1933, An
Itinéraire d'un génie
J.C. Holmes blues
Jail-house blues
Jazz dans le New York des années folles
jazz de Cabu une petite histoire du swing de Louis Armstrong à Miles Davis..., Le
Jazz divas from Bessie to Billie Bessie Smith, Frances Langford...
Jazz Greats, Volume 38: Bessie Smith: Preachin' the Blues
Jazz 'n' Blues
Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town
Keep It to Yourself
Keeps On a‐Rainin’
Kitchen Man / I’ve Got What It Takes
Köyhänmiehen blues
L’Art vocal, volume 3 : La Sélection 1923–1933
Ladies sing the swing Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith...
Lady luck blues
Lice tame
Lock and Key / Trombone Cholly
Lonesome desert blues
Long old road
Lost your head blues
Mama's got the blues
Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Bessie Smith
Masters, The
Me and My Gin / Slow and Easy Man
Mean old bedbug blues
Members Edition
Midnight blues
Midnite Jazz & Blues: Empress of the Blues
Moan Mourners / On Revival Day
Moan you moaners
Mother of the Blues
Muddy Water
My sweetie went away
Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl / Safety Mama
New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
Nobody in town can bake a sweet jelly roll like mine
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out / Take It Right Back
Nobody's blues but mine
Oh Daddy Blues
On Revival Day
Outside of That, He's All Right With Me
Paris café blues 3 CD special edition
Preachin' the blues
Queen of the Blues, Volume 1
Quintessence: The Empress 1923-1933, The
Reckless blues
Rough Guide to Blues Legends: Bessie Smith, The
Safety mama
Sam Jones blues
Send me to the 'lectric chair
SHIPWRECK BLUES
Sinful blues
Soft pedal blues
Squeeze me
St. Louis Blues / Cold in Hand Blues, The
St. Louis Gal
Standin' in the Rain
Sweet mistreater
T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
'Tain't nobody's business if I do
Take me for a buggy ride
That lucky old sun
Them ''has been'' blues
Them's graveyard words
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight
There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin
Thinking blues
Ticket agent ease your window down
Trombone Cholly
Twenties, The
Ultimate Collection, The
Undisputed Queen of the Blues, Volume 1, The
used to be your sweet mama, I
Vocal Jazz
Want Every Bit of It, I
Wasted life blues
Water for elephants original motion picture soundtrack
WEEPING WILLOW BLUES
What's the matter now
Whoa Tillie take your time
Wild about that thing
World's Greatest Blues Singer, The
Wossaproblem
yellow dog blues
You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon
You've been a good ole wagon
You've got to give me some
Young Woman’s Blues
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