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“The Mother of the Blues” AKA Gertrude “Ma” Rainey with “Baby, No, No!” (https://youtu.be/SOlmnvdoPjE?si=3hFlbY29TZee8CpM)
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #RoundMidnight Ma Rainey: 🎵 Jealous Hearted Blues #BBCRadio3 #MaRainey ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Track on #Spotify:

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PhillipeSudDuMonde

Apr 26, 2025

26 de abril de 1886, nace en Columbus, Georgia (EEUU), la tremenda #MaRainey, cantante de blues tradicional y gran influencia para lo que serían los primeros registros del género.

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Dr. Dani Sanchez Feb 20, 2025

Miss Bessie Smith AKA “The Empress of the Blues “(April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was a protégé and sometimes lover of Ma Rainey’s when they toured together in the 1920s. Here’s 1927’s “Back Water Blues” (https://youtu.be/4gXShOJVwaM?si=gymkthC_PP9RwdMx)
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Bessie Smith-Back Water Blues

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Dr. Dani Sanchez Feb 20, 2025

First up we have “The Mother of the Blues” AKA Gertrude “Ma” Rainey with her classic “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (https://youtu.be/cph7qZoE5d8?si=Jmlscgetc46KRyEB)
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Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

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Dr. Dani Sanchez Feb 19, 2025

The actual Gertrude “Ma” Rainey AKA “The Mother of the Blues” (April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was a queer blues singer who began her career as a young teenager in Georgia (where a home she lived in is now a museum dedicated to her). She claimed to have created the term “the blues”.
#MusComEnt #BlackHistoryMonth #MaRaineysBlackBottom #MaRainey #blues

In the Dark Oct 16, 2024

Back in 2023 I posted an item marking the first appearance of Louis Armstrong on record with King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band back in 1923. Now it’s time to mark another jazz centenary which also involves Satchmo but in a different setting. King Oliver’s band split up at the end of 1923 over a disagreement about a planned nationwide tour and in 1924 Louis Armstrong moved to New York. He was soon snapped up by Fletcher Henderson and spent a glorious year as star trumpet soloist with Henderson’s big band. During that time he also made records with various small bands, including a number with the great vocalist and “Mother of the Blues” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey.

One of the tracks recorded by Ma Rainey in the Paramount studio in New York was called See See Rider. Although not released until 1925, the very first recording of this number was made exactly one hundred years ago today, on 16th October 1924, by “Ma Rainey and her Georgia Jazz Band”, the supporting musicians being Charlie Dixon (Banjo), Buster Bailey (Clarinet), Charlie Green (Trombone), Fletcher Henderson (Piano) and Louis Armstrong (Cornet). The origins of this blues song are lost in the mists of time but it has been recorded a huge number of times, not only by jazz and blues musicians but also by the likes of Elvis Presley; I posted a great version by Peggy Lee here.

Unusually for the time, two takes were made of which the following was the first. Notice that there is an introduction in the form of a verse, which is quite unusual: most blues performances involve only a chorus. Despite the limitations of recording technology at the time you can hear what a tremendously soulful voice Ma Rainey had, and the muted cornet work by Louis Armstrong is unmistakable.

The sound quality may not be great, but it’s a priceless piece of music history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he9T0R0OCIA

https://telescoper.blog/2024/10/16/a-century-of-see-see-rider/

#Blues #FletcherHenderson #GertrudeMaRainey #Jazz #LouisArmstrong #MaRainey #music #SeeSeeRider

A Jazz Centenary

King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band vintage 1923. From the left: Warren “Baby” Dodds (drums); Honore Dutrey (seated front, trombone); Joe “King” Oliver (standing rear, corn…

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Afroféminas Jul 2, 2024

Ma Rainey, «la Madre del Blues»
El verdadero legado de Ma Rainey reside en haber definido un estilo de interpretación audaz, enérgico y sensual, que estableció el estándar de su época y empoderó a las vocalistas femeninas como figuras preponde
https://afrofeminas.com/2024/07/02/ma-rainey-la-madre-del-blues/
#CulturaCineYTelevisin #Historia #ReferentesNegros #afrodescendientes #Afrofminas #Afrofeminas #Blues #dispora #HistoriaDeLaMsica #MaRainey #MsicaNegra #MujerNegra #ReferentesNegros

Ma Rainey, "la Madre del Blues"

El verdadero legado de Ma Rainey reside en haber definido un estilo de interpretación audaz, enérgico y sensual, que estableció el estándar de su época y empoderó a las vocalistas femeninas como figuras preponderantes en los albores del blues.

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