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DVD:  Bessie Smith — St. Louis Blues
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DVD-1062
Label-Nummer / Spuren: UFGL 12201
Tonträger: 2 DVD
Aufnahmedatum: 2005
Land: DE
 
Musiker:
NameLandInstr.
Louis "Satchmo" ArmstrongUSco,
William "Buster" BaileyUSas, cl, ss,
Fletcher HendersonUSp, comp,
Clarence WilliamsUSp, voc,
Coleman HawkinsUSts, cl,
Bessie SmithUSvoc,
 
Tracks / Sessions:
1-1Bessie Smith — Alexander's Ragtime Band
1-2Bessie Smith — Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
1-3Bessie Smith — The St. Louis Blues
1-4Bessie Smith — Careless Love Blues
1-5Bessie Smith — I Ain't Goin' To Play Second Fiddle
1-6Bessie Smith — The Gin House Blues
1-7Bessie Smith — Lost Your Head Blues
1-8Bessie Smith — After You've Gone
1-9Bessie Smith — A Good Man Is Hard To Find
1-10Bessie Smith — Dyin' by The Hour
1-11Bessie Smith — Empty Bed Blues, PT 1
1-12Bessie Smith — Empty Bed Blues, PT 2
1-13Bessie Smith — Blue Spirit Blues
1-14Bessie Smith — I Don't Cry Baby
1-15Bessie Smith — Baby Have Pity On Me
1-16Bessie Smith — On Revival Day
1-17Bessie Smith — Black Mountain Blues
1-18Bessie Smith — Safety Mama
1-19Bessie Smith — Down Hearted Blues
1-20Bessie Smith — Gulf Coast Blues
1-21Bessie Smith — Baby Won't You Please Come Home
1-22Bessie Smith — 't Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
1-23Bessie Smith — Bleeding Hearted Blues
1-24Bessie Smith — Midnight Blues
 
Die DVD-Hülle beinhaltet auch eine CD mit 24 Titeln. Neben der CD befindet sich eine DVD mit einer Dokumentation über das Leben von Bessie Smith.

Inhalt: In 1929, Kenneth W. Adams and W.C.Handy wrote a short film treatment based on Handy's famous song "St.Louis Blues" and convinced the film studio RCA Phototone of the idea of making a short film. Phototone hired Dudley Murphy (director of the 1924 French avante garde classic Le Ballet Mechanique!) to direct a two-reel short to be shown before the featured attraction, much the same way newsreels, and cartoons where Throw in as added attraction before films in those days. At W.C. Handy's suggestion, Bessie Smith was picked to be the star of the film. Bessie had scored a huge hit in 1925 with her recording "St. Louis Blues", which had featured Louis Armstrong on cornet. The film was shot in June of 1929 in Astoria, Long Island and was shown between the year 1929 to 1932. It was Bessie Smith's only film appearance. The film features a top notch Jazz band that includes, James P. Johnson on piano, Thomas Morris and Joe Smith on cornet, as well as the Hall Johnson Choir. The film had an all African American cast. The co-stars were dancer/actor Jimmy Mordecai as Bessie's good for nothing boyfriend and Isabel Washington Powell as the other woman.