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  • A gift for Bessie. Dedicated to Bessie Smith.

    • Notated music
    • New York, Seesaw Music Corp. [c1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Music-Am. (Sheet) 73-608Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Bessie Smith, empress of the blues compilation and biography by Chris Albertson; notes on Bessie Smith's singing style by Gunther Schuller; musical arrangements by George N. Terry; edited by Clifford Richter.

    • Notated music
    • New York : W. Kane, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNF 77-45Offsite
  • Work house blues; House rent blues [sound recording] / Ted Wallace.

    • Audio
    • New York: Columbia 81883 81884 14032D, [193-?]
    • 1930-1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio CM-43 [Side 1, no. 5-6] Re-recorded in cassette (counters 29 & 38) 2 track. monoSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Bessie Smith [sound recording] : great original performances, 1925-1933.

    • Audio
    • [England?] : BBC, 1986, p1985.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 1191 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Dupont show of the week. America's music--Chicago and all that jazz [videorecording] / Produced as a special project by the NBC Television Network ; directed by James Elson ; associate producer, Norman Kahn.

    • Moving image
    • New York : NBC Television Network, 1961-11-26.
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Film, slide, etc. Sc Visual DVD-629 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • A gift for Bessie : (1971) : for violin, bassoon, piano, vibraphone/percussion / by Stuart Saunders Smith.

    • Notated music
    • Baltimore, Md. : Smith Publications, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNF 92-147Offsite
  • The Ladies sing the blues [videorecording] / Minnesota Studio, Inc.

    • Moving image
    • New York, N.Y. : V.I.E.W. Inc., c1988.
    • 1988-1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 7Offsite
  • Saucy songs, 1928 to 1938 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [Australia] : ABC Records, p1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 4628 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Bessie Smith songbook / Bessie Smith.

    • Notated music
    • [S.l.] : Frank Music Corp. ; Milwaukee, WI : Exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNG 94-493Offsite
  • That's black entertainment [videorecording]

    • Moving image
    • c1989.
    • 1989
  • Le voci del jazz [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [Italy] : Musica Jazz, p1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 4702Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Gin house blues [sound recording] / [Various artists].

    • Audio
    • E. Sussex, England : Pavilion Records, Ltd., p1992.
    • 1992
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 13854 (F) [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 13854 (F) [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Bluesland : a portrait in American music.

    • Moving image
    • New York : BMG Video, c1993
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual VRA-416Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Red, white & blues [sound recording] : women sing of America / produced by Rosetta Reitz.

    • Audio
    • New York, N. Y. : Rosetta Records, [1980?]
    • 1980-1928
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio RE-8339Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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  • Sorry but I can't take you [sound recording] : women's railroad blues.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Rosetta Records, p1980
    • 1980-1923
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio RE-8340Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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  • St. Louis blues [videocassette] / director, story, Dudley Murphy ; under the supervision of Dick Currier.

    • Moving image
    • Astoria, N.Y. : Gramercy Studios of RCA Photophone, Inc.
    • 1929
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual VRA-259Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual VRB-2013Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Kaffir [electronic resource] / presented by Dance Theater Workshop ; choreography by Reginald Wilson.

    • Moving image
    • c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/13121af8-0440-4552-9242-dcf8643385cf
  • New York [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • [England] : BBC, p1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 1187 (F) v. 3Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Blue melodies [videorecording] / Kino International ; Paramount Pictures.

    • Moving image
    • New York : Kino on Video, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordingsOffsite
  • Blues masters : the essential history of the blues. Volume I [videorecording] / a Lanny Lee production ; City Island Entertainment.

    • Moving image
    • Los Angeles, CA : Rhino Home Video, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordingsOffsite
  • W.C. Handy [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [Italy] : Musica Jazz, p1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 4475Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • St. Louis blues [Motion picture] / producer, Dick Currier ; director, Dudley Murphy.

    • Moving image
    • Davenport, Ia. : Blackhawk Films, 1929.
    • 1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Film, slide, etc. *LVF 53Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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  • Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway [sound recording] : legendary black jazz stars in their first films.

    • Audio
    • Canaan, N.Y. : Biograph, p1978.
    • 1978-1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 1740Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The complete recordings. Vol. 2 [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.

    • Audio
    • New York, NY : Columbia/Legacy, p1991.
    • 1991-1924
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDCO 192 v. 2 (F) Program notes on filePerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Bessie Smith, the complete recordings. Vol. 1 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, NY : Columbia Legacy, p1991.
    • 1991-1923
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDCO 192 v. 1 (F) Program notes on filePerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The complete recordings. Vol. 3 [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.

    • Audio
    • New York, NY : Columbia, p1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDCO 192 v. 3 (F) Program notes on filePerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Old time record review. Program no. 3.1, Four smiths from Tin Pan Alley Harlem ; Program no. 3.2, Negro hillbilly music. [sousnd recording].

    • Audio
    • 192-192
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 32288 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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  • Body and soul [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : Columbia Special Products, [197-?]
    • 1970-1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 18376 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Columbia basic library of great jazz [sound recording] : outstanding jazz of every period.

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Columbia Masterworks, [195-?]
    • 195
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 17815 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 17815 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The Bessie Smith story [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Columbia, [195-]
    • 195
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 17968 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • LaVern Baker sings Bessie Smith [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Atlantic, [1958]
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 11477 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The songs of Bessie Smith [sound recording] / Teresa Brewer.

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Doctor Jazz Records, p1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 21900 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The songs of Bessie Smith [sound recording] / Count Basie [and] Teresa Brewer.

    • Audio
    • New York : Flying Dutchman, [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 25215 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Perry Bradford [sound recording] : pioneer of the blues / Noble Sissle interviews Perry Bradford.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Folkways Records, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26196 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26196 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • 1924 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [Paris] : Jazz Magazine, p2001.
    • 2001-1924
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 25500 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Dinah sings Bessie Smith [sound recording] / Dinah Washington ; with Eddie Chamblee and his orchestra.

    • Audio
    • Chicago : Emarcy, [195-?]
    • 195
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 33537 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • 1933 [sound recording] : jazz collection : l'histoire est d'actualité.

    • Audio
    • [Paris] : Jazz Magazine, p2002.
    • 2002-1933
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 27966 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The Riverside history of classic jazz [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Riverside, [195-]
    • 195
    • 5 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 42303 [Disc 3]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 42303 [Disc 4]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 42303 [Disc 5]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • [Choreographic works by Eleo Pomare] [videorecording] / Eleo Pomare Dance Company.

    • Moving image
    • 1973-[1974?]
    • 1973-1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *MGZIA 4-8094Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • [Choreographic works by Eleo Pomare] [videorecording] / Eleo Pomare Dance Company.

    • Moving image
    • 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *MGZIA 4-8085Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • 1925 [sound recording] : l'histoire est d'actualité.

    • Audio
    • [Paris, France] : Jazz Magazine, p2002.
    • 2002-1925
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 29175 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The great blues singers [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Riverside, [194-?]
    • 194
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZO 2081 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Red white & blues [sound recording] : women sing of America.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Rosetta, [196-?]
    • 196
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LRX 8080 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Sorry but I can't take you [sound recording] : women's railroad blues.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Rosetta, p1980.
    • 1980-1923
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LRX 8079 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • La Vern Baker sings Bessie Smith [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : Atlantic, [196-]
    • 196
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 52066 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Nobody's blues but mine [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.

    • Audio
    • New York : Columbia, p1972.
    • 1972-1925
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 56240 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The empress [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.

    • Audio
    • New York : Columbia, [1971]
    • 1971-1924
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 56232 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The story of the blues [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Columbia, [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 56200 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Any woman's blues [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Columbia, [1970]
    • 1970-1923
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 56207 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • I like jazz! [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : Columbia, [19--?]
    • 1900-1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 56281 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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