1. BESSIE SMITH

2. VIDEO LINK ABOUT BESSIE SMITH

3. What is jazz? ● Different kinds of American popular and dance music ● Rhythm with stimulating,off beat accents

4. The Birth of Bessie ● Born April 15 th 1894 ● Chattanooga Tennessee

5. Bessie smith ● She was born in poverty ● Didn't have very much education

6. raised ● 1 of seven children ● Raised by her older sister and her siblings(sisters name viola)

7. parents ● William and Laura smith was her parents names ● Father-baptist minister and a laborer

8. parents ● Father died after her birth ● Mother and 2 brothers died when she was 8 or 9

9. First started ● Age-18 she worked with the Moses strokes traveling ministers show and later with the rabbit ft. minstrel under Gertrude “ma” Rainey ● Smith realized that she had an unusual voice and sang for money on street corners accompanied by guitar(Andrew) and younger brother

10. discovery ● Was discovered by a record company representatives ● 1923-discovery by Columbia records

11. Songs and movies ● First recording-down heart-ed blues 1923 ● 1929-film-st. Louis blues

12. show’s ● Leading artist in black shows on t.o.b.a circuit and at the 81 show place in Atlanta ● T.O.B.A -theatre owners booking association

13. ● Started career by dancing then created show called the Vaudeville show ● 1920 marnie smith(no relation) recorded the first vocal blues record and sold one thousand copies the first month

14. ● Smith was unquestionably the greatest of the vaudeville blues singer and bought the emotional intensity, personal involvement and expression of blues singer into the jazz repertory with excellent artistry

15. ● Most of her songs were about poverty oppression and unrequited love ● Recorded with Armstrong trumpeter joe,do red-man,james.p,Johnson charlie green, Fletcher Henderson

16. ● Depression affected the recording and entertainment industries ● Alcoholism had servilely damaged her carrier

17. accomplishments ● Knowned as the “empress of blues” Bessie smith revolutionized the vocal end of blues music in the 1920's with her rich voice and has influenced generations of musicians