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A gift for Bessie. Dedicated to Bessie Smith.
- Notated music
- New York, Seesaw Music Corp. [c1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music Music-Am. (Sheet) 73-608 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JNF 77-45 Offsite Work house blues; House rent blues [sound recording] / Ted Wallace.
- Audio
- New York: Columbia 81883 81884 14032D, [193-?]
- 1930-1939
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording Sc Audio CM-43 [Side 1, no. 5-6] Re-recorded in cassette (counters 29 & 38) 2 track. mono Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bessie Smith [sound recording] : great original performances, 1925-1933.
- Audio
- [England?] : BBC, 1986, p1985.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 1191 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Film, slide, etc. Sc Visual DVD-629 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JNF 92-147 Offsite 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 7 Offsite Saucy songs, 1928 to 1938 [sound recording].
- Audio
- [Australia] : ABC Records, p1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 4628 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Bessie Smith songbook / Bessie Smith.
- Notated music
- [S.l.] : Frank Music Corp. ; Milwaukee, WI : Exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JNG 94-493 Offsite That's black entertainment [videorecording]
- Moving image
- c1989.
- 1989
Le voci del jazz [sound recording].
- Audio
- [Italy] : Musica Jazz, p1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 4702 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Gin house blues [sound recording] / [Various artists].
- Audio
- E. Sussex, England : Pavilion Records, Ltd., p1992.
- 1992
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 13854 (F) [CD] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 13854 (F) [Notes] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Bluesland : a portrait in American music.
- Moving image
- New York : BMG Video, c1993
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS Sc Visual VRA-416 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording Sc Audio RE-8339 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Not available - Please for assistance.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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording Sc Audio RE-8340 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Not available - Please for assistance.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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS Sc Visual VRA-259 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS Sc Visual VRB-2013 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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-dcf8643385cfNew York [sound recording]
- Audio
- [England] : BBC, p1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 1187 (F) v. 3 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Blue melodies [videorecording] / Kino International ; Paramount Pictures.
- Moving image
- New York : Kino on Video, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Offsite 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Offsite W.C. Handy [sound recording].
- Audio
- [Italy] : Musica Jazz, p1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 4475 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
St. Louis blues [Motion picture] / producer, Dick Currier ; director, Dudley Murphy.
- Moving image
- Davenport, Ia. : Blackhawk Films, 1929.
- 1929
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Film, slide, etc. *LVF 53 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Not available - Please for assistance.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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 1740 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The complete recordings. Vol. 2 [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.
- Audio
- New York, NY : Columbia/Legacy, p1991.
- 1991-1924
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDCO 192 v. 2 (F) Program notes on file Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Bessie Smith, the complete recordings. Vol. 1 [sound recording].
- Audio
- New York, NY : Columbia Legacy, p1991.
- 1991-1923
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDCO 192 v. 1 (F) Program notes on file Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The complete recordings. Vol. 3 [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.
- Audio
- New York, NY : Columbia, p1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDCO 192 v. 3 (F) Program notes on file Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 32288 [CD] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Not available - Please for assistance.Body and soul [sound recording].
- Audio
- [S.l.] : Columbia Special Products, [197-?]
- 1970-1976
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 18376 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Columbia basic library of great jazz [sound recording] : outstanding jazz of every period.
- Audio
- [New York] : Columbia Masterworks, [195-?]
- 195
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 17815 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 17815 [Notes] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The Bessie Smith story [sound recording].
- Audio
- [New York] : Columbia, [195-]
- 195
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 17968 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
LaVern Baker sings Bessie Smith [sound recording].
- Audio
- New York, N.Y. : Atlantic, [1958]
- 1958
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 11477 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The songs of Bessie Smith [sound recording] / Teresa Brewer.
- Audio
- [New York] : Doctor Jazz Records, p1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 21900 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The songs of Bessie Smith [sound recording] / Count Basie [and] Teresa Brewer.
- Audio
- New York : Flying Dutchman, [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 25215 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Perry Bradford [sound recording] : pioneer of the blues / Noble Sissle interviews Perry Bradford.
- Audio
- New York, N.Y. : Folkways Records, c1980.
- 1980
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 26196 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 26196 [Notes] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
1924 [sound recording].
- Audio
- [Paris] : Jazz Magazine, p2001.
- 2001-1924
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 25500 [CD] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Dinah sings Bessie Smith [sound recording] / Dinah Washington ; with Eddie Chamblee and his orchestra.
- Audio
- Chicago : Emarcy, [195-?]
- 195
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 33537 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
1933 [sound recording] : jazz collection : l'histoire est d'actualité.
- Audio
- [Paris] : Jazz Magazine, p2002.
- 2002-1933
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 27966 [CD] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The Riverside history of classic jazz [sound recording].
- Audio
- [New York] : Riverside, [195-]
- 195
- 5 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 42303 [Disc 3] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 42303 [Disc 4] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 42303 [Disc 5] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
[Choreographic works by Eleo Pomare] [videorecording] / Eleo Pomare Dance Company.
- Moving image
- 1973-[1974?]
- 1973-1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS *MGZIA 4-8094 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
[Choreographic works by Eleo Pomare] [videorecording] / Eleo Pomare Dance Company.
- Moving image
- 1973.
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location VHS *MGZIA 4-8085 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
1925 [sound recording] : l'histoire est d'actualité.
- Audio
- [Paris, France] : Jazz Magazine, p2002.
- 2002-1925
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Music CD *LDC 29175 [CD] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The great blues singers [sound recording].
- Audio
- New York, N.Y. : Riverside, [194-?]
- 194
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZO 2081 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Red white & blues [sound recording] : women sing of America.
- Audio
- New York, N.Y. : Rosetta, [196-?]
- 196
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LRX 8080 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Sorry but I can't take you [sound recording] : women's railroad blues.
- Audio
- New York, N.Y. : Rosetta, p1980.
- 1980-1923
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LRX 8079 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
La Vern Baker sings Bessie Smith [sound recording].
- Audio
- New York : Atlantic, [196-]
- 196
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 52066 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Nobody's blues but mine [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.
- Audio
- New York : Columbia, p1972.
- 1972-1925
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 56240 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The empress [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.
- Audio
- New York : Columbia, [1971]
- 1971-1924
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 56232 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The story of the blues [sound recording].
- Audio
- New York, N.Y. : Columbia, [1970]
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 56200 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Any woman's blues [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.
- Audio
- New York, N.Y. : Columbia, [1970]
- 1970-1923
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Musical recording *LZR 56207 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
I like jazz! [sound recording].
- Audio
- [S.l.] : Columbia, [19--?]
- 1900-1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 56281 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
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