The Death of Bessie Smith

[Christiern]

PLEASE NOTE: The audio file that originally accompanied this post was the wrong one. Instead of hearing Dr. Smith's account of this tragic event, you hear an interview with Ornette Coleman! I apologize for the mixup and have now attached the correct file. CA

If you have read my biography of Bessie Smith, you may recall the chapter in which I quote extensively from Dr. Hugh Smith's eyewitness account. Well, here, published for the first time, is the actual recording of that account. It gives more details than I included in the book, and it has a surprise ending.

Here is a direct link.

Let me know what you think.

Edited October 29, 2010 by Christiern

[AllenLowe]

I thought this was about Edward Albee -

[Neal Pomea]

You mean she wasn't killed by an avenging Clara Smith?

[AllenLowe]

John Hammond did it.