BESSIE SMITH / Col 14031 / E / Lou'siana Low Down Blues
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$ 106 Sold For
May 25, 2009 Sold Date
May 15, 2009 Start Date
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BESSIE SMITH
1924 Columbia Blues

THE BASICS
ARTIST : BESSIE SMITH
LABEL : Columbia 14031-D
SELECTIONS :
Lou’siana Low-Down Blues
Mountain Top Blues
RECORD DATE : July 22, 1924
CONDITION : E

 Bessie Smith was the first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time. She rightly earned the title of "The Empress of the Blues." Even on her first records in 1923, her passionate voice overcame the primitive recording quality of the day and still communicates easily to today's listeners (which is not true of any other singer from that early period).

At a time when the blues were in and most vocalists (particularly vaudevillians) were being dubbed "blues singers," Bessie Smith simply had no competition. Back in 1912, Bessie Smith sang in the same show as Ma Rainey, who took her under her wing and coached her. Although Rainey would achieve a measure of fame throughout her career, she was soon surpassed by her protégé. In 1920, Smith had her own show in Atlantic City and, in 1923, she moved to New York.

She was soon signed by Columbia and her first recording (Alberta Hunter's "Downhearted Blues") made her famous. Bessie Smith worked and recorded steadily throughout the decade, using many top musicians as sidemen on sessions including Louis Armstrong, Joe Smith (her favorite cornetist), James P. Johnson, and Charlie Green. [ All Music Guide - Scott Yanow]

These songs are from sessions on August 24 & 25, 1928. She's backed here Don Redman on alto sax, and that’s Fletcher Henderson on piano.

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CONDITION: E a really remarkably clean original. There is one bumped place on the edge of this record, but this does not get into the playing area, and is only visible on one side of the record.


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