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This DVD presents a selection of performances filmed between 1929 and 1962. The most legendary of these films is ST LOUIS BLUES, starring the Empress of the Blues - Bessie Smith. She is joined on this DVD by two enormously successful female singers from the 1920s - Ida Cox and Mamie Smith.

The programme concludes with a great short film featuring the magnificent blues harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson.

The programme provides us with a vivid picture of the various styles of the blues over the years and gives us precious glimpses of some of its finest practitioners.

"She embodied the meaning of the blues, living the life she sang about. Bessie Smith set the standard for blues singers on how it should be done." Allaboutjazz.com

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Composer(s)/ Author(s):
Cox, Ida; Smith, Bessie

Artist(s):
Broonzy, Big Bill; Cox, Ida; Miller, Alec Ford; Smith, Mamie; Smith, Bessie

Label: Storyville Films
UPC: 880491260325
Item Number: 26032
Release Date: Oct 29, 2007