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The Best of Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith (vocal), Clarence Williams (piano), Charlie Green (trombone), Fletcher Henderson (piano), Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong, Fred Longshaw (piano), Louis Armstrong (cornet), Gary Pacheco (director), Joe Smith (cornet), Buster Bailey (clarinet), James Johnson (piano), James P. Johnson...

  • Release Date: 8th May 2015
  • Catalogue No: G010003341374M
  • Label: Columbia
  • Length: 64 minutes

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Contents

A. Hunter, L. Austin: Down Hearted Blues

Work length3:25
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Clarence Williams (piano)

Clarence Williams, Charles Warfield: Baby Won't You Please Come Home

Work length2:56
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Clarence Williams (piano)

Percy Grainger, E. Robbins: 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do

Work length3:26
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Clarence Williams (piano)

T. Wallace: Work House Blues

Work length3:21
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Fletcher Henderson (piano), Charlie Green (trombone)

Handy: Saint Louis Blues

Work length3:10
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith (vocal), Louis Armstrong (cornet), Fred Longshaw (piano)

Bessie Smith: You've Been a Good Old Wagon

Work length3:28
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Fred Longshaw (piano), Louis Armstrong (cornet)

Handy: Careless Love Blues

Work length3:25
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Fred Longshaw (piano), Charlie Green (trombone), Louis Armstrong (cornet)

Bessie Smith: Young Woman's Blues

Work length3:07
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Fletcher Henderson (piano), Buster Bailey (clarinet), Joe Smith (cornet), Gary Pacheco (director)

Bessie Smith: Preachin' the Blues

Work length2:51
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), James Johnson (piano), Gary Pacheco (director)

Bessie Smith: Backwater Blues

Work length3:18
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), James P. Johnson (piano), James Johnson (piano)

T. Metz, J. Hayden: There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight

Work length3:19
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Charlie Dixon (banjo), Fletcher Henderson (piano), Buster Bailey (clarinet), Jimmy Harrison (trombone), Joe Smith (cornet), Gary Pacheco (director)

G. Brooks: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair

Work length3:21
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Fletcher Henderson (piano), Charlie Green (trombone), Joe Smith (cornet)

J.C. Johnson: Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1

Work length3:01
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Porter Grainger (piano), Charlie Green (trombone)

J.C. Johnson: Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 2

Work length3:20
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Porter Grainger (piano), Charlie Green (trombone)

J.C. Johnson: Me and My Gin

Work length2:49
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Porter Grainger (piano), Joe Williams (trombone)

J. Cox: Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

Work length2:57
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Clarence Williams (piano), Garvin Bushell (alto saxophone), Greely Walton (tenor saxophone), Ed Allen (cornet)

J.C. Johnson: Black Mountain Blues

Work length3:07
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Steve Stevens (piano), Ed Allen (cornet)

Bessie Smith: Long Old Road

Work length3:26
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Floyd Casey (drums), Louis Metcalfe (piano), Clarence Williams (piano), Charlie Green (trombone), Louis Metcalfe (cornet)

Clarence Williams, D. Small, T. Brymn: Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl

Work length2:47
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Clarence Williams (piano)

W. Wilson: Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer

Work length3:28
$1.30
$1.70
  • Bessie Smith (vocal), Bobby Johnson (guitar), Buck Washington (piano), Billy Taylor (bass), Chu Berry (tenor saxophone), Benny Goodman (clarinet), Frank Newton (trumpet), Jack Teagarden (trombone)

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