Bessie Smith

vocal, performer

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Fletcher Henderson piano Any Woman's Blues, At the Christmas Ball, Baby Doll, Bleeding Hearted Blues, Careless Love Blues, Chicago Bound Blues, Dyin' by the Hour, Eavesdropper's Blues, Foolish Man Blues, Haunted House Blues, I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, If You Don't, I Know Who Will, Lady Luck Blues, Mama's Got the Blues, Midnight Blues, Mistreating Daddy, Money Blues, Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan), Nashville Woman's Blues, Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine, One and Two Blues, Outside of That, The Yellow Dog Blues, Weepin’ Willow Blues, Yodling Blues, Young Woman’s Blues
Clarence Williams piano 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do, 'tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do, Baby Wont You Please Come Home, Down Hearted Blues, Downhearted Blues, Gulf Coast Blues, I Want Ev'ry Bit of It, I'm Wild About That Thing, In the House Blues, Keep It to Yourself, Keeps on A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time), Kitchen Man, Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, Oh! Daddy Blues, You've Got to Give Me Some, ’Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
Charlie Green (Trombonist) trombone At the Christmas Ball, Careless Love, Careless Love Blues, Empty Bed Blues, Empty Bed Blues, Parts 1 & 2, I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle, I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama, In the House Blues, Keep It to Yourself, Nashville Woman's Blues, Standin' in the Rain Blues, The Yellow Dog Blues, Thinking Blues, Weepin’ Willow Blues
Louis Armstrong cornet Careless Love, Careless Love Blues, I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle, I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, Nashville Woman's Blues, Reckless Blues, St. Louis Blues, You’ve Been a Good Ole Wagon
Joe Smith (cornetist) cornet At the Christmas Ball, Baby Doll, Money Blues, Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan), One and Two Blues, The Yellow Dog Blues, Weepin’ Willow Blues, Young Woman’s Blues

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Fletcher Henderson piano Any Woman's Blues, At the Christmas Ball, Baby Doll, Bleeding Hearted Blues, Careless Love Blues, Chicago Bound Blues, Dyin' by the Hour, Eavesdropper's Blues, Foolish Man Blues, Haunted House Blues, I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, If You Don't, I Know Who Will, Lady Luck Blues, Mama's Got the Blues, Midnight Blues, Mistreating Daddy, Money Blues, Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan), Nashville Woman's Blues, Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine, One and Two Blues, Outside of That, The Yellow Dog Blues, Weepin’ Willow Blues, Yodling Blues, Young Woman’s Blues
Clarence Williams piano 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do, 'tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do, Baby Wont You Please Come Home, Down Hearted Blues, Downhearted Blues, Gulf Coast Blues, I Want Ev'ry Bit of It, I'm Wild About That Thing, In the House Blues, Keep It to Yourself, Keeps on A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time), Kitchen Man, Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, Oh! Daddy Blues, You've Got to Give Me Some, ’Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
Charlie Green (Trombonist) trombone At the Christmas Ball, Careless Love, Careless Love Blues, Empty Bed Blues, Empty Bed Blues, Parts 1 & 2, I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle, I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama, In the House Blues, Keep It to Yourself, Nashville Woman's Blues, Standin' in the Rain Blues, The Yellow Dog Blues, Thinking Blues, Weepin’ Willow Blues
Louis Armstrong cornet Careless Love, Careless Love Blues, I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle, I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, Nashville Woman's Blues, Reckless Blues, St. Louis Blues, You’ve Been a Good Ole Wagon
Joe Smith (cornetist) cornet At the Christmas Ball, Baby Doll, Money Blues, Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan), One and Two Blues, The Yellow Dog Blues, Weepin’ Willow Blues, Young Woman’s Blues
Irving Johns piano Boweavil Blues, Hateful Blues, Jail-House Blues, Pinchbacks - Take 'em Away, Rocking Chair Blues, Sam Jones Blues, St. Louis Gal, Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
Fred Longshaw organ, piano, reed organ Careless Love, I Ain't Goin' to Play No Second Fiddle, I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama, Reckless Blues, St. Louis Blues, Standin' in the Rain Blues, Thinking Blues, You’ve Been a Good Ole Wagon
Porter Grainger piano A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Devil's Gonna Git You, Empty Bed Blues, Empty Bed Blues, Parts 1 & 2, Me and My Gin, Mean Old Bed Bug Blues, Mean Old Bedbug Blues
James P. Johnson piano Back Water Blues, Blue Spirit Blues, He's Got Me Going, Lock and Key, On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual), Preachin' the Blues, St. Louis Blues
Robert Robbins violin Boweavil Blues, Hateful Blues, Rocking Chair Blues, Sorrowful Blues, Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
Jimmy Jones (jazz pianist, active in the 1920s w/ Bessie Smith, if you're not sure choose the other jazz pianist) piano Cemetery Blues, Easy Come, Easy Go Blues, Frosty Morning Blues, Graveyard Dream Blues
Buster Bailey clarinet Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan), One and Two Blues, The Yellow Dog Blues, Young Woman’s Blues
Don Redman clarinet Chicago Bound Blues, Eavesdropper's Blues, Haunted House Blues, Mistreating Daddy
Bobby Johnson guitar Do Your Duty, Gimme a Pigfoot, I'm Down in the Dumps
Demas Dean trumpet I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama, Standin' in the Rain Blues, Thinking Blues
Buck Washington piano Do Your Duty, Gimme a Pigfoot, I'm Down in the Dumps
Ed Allen cornet Black Mountain Blues, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
Eddie Lang guitar I'm Wild About That Thing, Kitchen Man, You've Got to Give Me Some
Benny Goodman (clarinetist and bandleader) clarinet Do Your Duty, Gimme a Pigfoot, I'm Down in the Dumps
Jack Teagarden trombone Do Your Duty, Gimme a Pigfoot, I'm Down in the Dumps
Billy Taylor Sr. (jazz bassist) double bass Do Your Duty, Gimme a Pigfoot, I'm Down in the Dumps
Frankie Newton trumpet Do Your Duty, Gimme a Pigfoot, I'm Down in the Dumps
Garvin Bushell alto saxophone, clarinet Keep It to Yourself, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
Chu Berry tenor saxophone Do Your Duty, Gimme a Pigfoot, I'm Down in the Dumps
June Cole tuba Dyin' by the Hour, Foolish Man Blues
Tommy Ladnier trumpet Dyin' by the Hour, Foolish Man Blues
Charlie Dixon banjo Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan), The Yellow Dog Blues
Louis Bacon cornet, trumpet In the House Blues, Keep It to Yourself
Lincoln Conaway guitar A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
Coleman Hawkins clarinet, tenor saxophone Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan), The Yellow Dog Blues
Cyrus St. Clair tuba Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
Harry Reser (1920s banjo player and bandleader) guitar Easy Come, Easy Go Blues, Frosty Morning Blues
Greely Walton tenor saxophone Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
John Griffin (early jazz) guitar Sorrowful Blues
Hall Johnson Choir vocal St. Louis Blues
Floyd Casey drums In the House Blues
Ernest Elliott (a.k.a. "Sticky" Elliott, clarinet and reeds, AMG artist ID 151482) clarinet Devil's Gonna Git You
Jimmy Harrison trombone Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
Jimmy Jones (jazz pianist, active years 1936-1975) piano My Sweetie Went Away
Bob Fuller clarinet Devil's Gonna Git You
Joe Williams (Trombonist, active NYC late 1920s (NOT Hot 8!)) trombone Me and My Gin
George Baquet clarinet My Sweetie Went Away
Lincoln M. Conway guitar A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Steve Stevens piano Black Mountain Blues
The Bessemer Singers vocal On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Brandon R. Melanchon vocal Aggravatin' Papa, Beale Street Mama
Nitro Injekzia vocal Far Away Blues, I'm Going Back to My Used to Be
Bessie Smith & Her Band vocal Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
兄弟聯 vocal Alexander's Ragtime Band
Robin Scott & Shikisha vocal Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
Jesse Popeski performer St. Louis Blues
Irving Berlin performer Alexander's Ragtime Band
ForeverFreest vocal The Yellow Dog Blues
Chorale Cantus Felix vocal Black Water Blues
Bessie Smith & Her Blue Boys vocal Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
Achim Reichel vocal Bessie kommt