Name: Jazz Classics - Bessie Smith
Brand: BBC Records
SKU: REB602
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Rating: 3.00 (1 reviews)

Jazz Classics - Bessie Smith (Bessie Smith)

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Picture of REB 602 Jazz Classics - Bessie Smith by artist Bessie Smith from the BBC records and Tapes library

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Picture of REB 602 Jazz Classics - Bessie Smith by artist Bessie Smith from the BBC records and Tapes library

BBC records label code

Label

Release details

Detail			Value
Catalogue number			REB 602
Title			Jazz Classics - Bessie Smith
Artist(s)			Bessie Smith
Cover condition			Near mint
Record condition			Near mint
BBC records label code			E
Item deleted?			Yes
Released			1986
Distributed / printed by			EMI Records
Country of origin			UK
Media type			Primary
Media genre			Music - Jazz View all other tracks listed as Music - Jazz.
Run-off codes / Shop bar codes			REB 602 A-1C-1-1- C D REB 602 B-2C--1- C D
My rating			*****
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Number have			1
What type of seller was used?			Physical shop
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Front cover
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Back cover

Label

Side & track	Track and Artist	Length
Tracks Below is a list of tracks for this release.
A1	Empty bed blues [J.C. Johnson / Bessie Smith]	6.24
A2	Alexander's ragtime band [Berlin / Bessie Smith and her band]	3.03
A3	Preachin' the blues [Bessie Smith]	2.54
A4	Keep it to yourself [C. Williams / Bessie Smith]	3.35
A5	Trombone cholly [Brooks / Bessie Smith and her Blue Boys]	3.13
A6	At the Christmas ball [Longshaw / Bessie Smith]	3.31
A7	Kitchen man [Razaf / Belledna / Bessie Smith]	3.02
B1	You've got to give me some [S. Williams / Bessie Smith]	2.48
B2	He's got me goin' [Gray / Bessie Smith]	3.15
B3	Thinking blues [Bessie Smith]	3.09
B4	Devil's gonna git you [Grainger / Bessie Smith]	3.16
B5	Send me to the 'lectric chair [Brooks / Bessie Smith and her Blue Boys]	3.25
B6	Baby doll [Bessie Smith]	3.06
B7	Take me for a buggy ride [Wilson / Bessie Smith with Buck and his band]	2.40
B8	Young woman's blues [Bessie Smith and her Blue Boys]	3.12
Total length of media 50:33.

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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts
Musicians Side A , track 1: Piano Porter Grainger Trombone Charlie Green Track 2: Banjo Charlie Dixon Clarinet Coleman Hawkins Cornet Joe Smith Piano Fletcher Henderson Trombone Jimmy Harrison Track 3: Piano James P. Johnson Track 4: Alto Saxophone Garvin Bushell Clarinet Garvin Bushell Piano Clarence Williams Trombone Charlie Green Trumpet Louis Bacon Track 5: Cornet Joe Smith Piano Fletcher Henderson Trombone Charlie Green Track 6: Cornet Joe Smith Piano Fletcher Henderson Track 7: Guitar Eddie Lang Piano Clarence Williams Side B Musicians , track 1: Guitar Eddie Lang Piano Clarence Williams Trombone Charlie Green Track 2: Piano James P. Johnson Track 3: Piano Fred Longshaw Trombone Charlie Green Trumpet Demas Dean Track 4: Clarinet Bob Fuller, Ernest Elliott Piano Porter Grainger Track 5: Cornet Joe Smith Piano Fletcher Henderson Trombone Charlie Green Track 6: Cornet Joe Smith Piano Fletcher Henderson Track 7: Bass Billy Taylor Guitar Bobby Johnson Piano Buck Washington Tenor Saxophone Chu Berry Trombone Jack Teagarden Trumpet Frank Newton Track 8: Clarinet Buster Bailey Cornet Joe Smith Piano Fletcher Henderson

Other versions
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Further information
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