It's a sad fact that we don't always love the way we want to — love being like a wind that assumes many forms. It ducks and hides and blasts out into the open in unexpected ways at odd times. But it's ...

Program notes by George Avakian on container. Performer(s): Blues songs; Bessie Smith, vocals ; with Louis Armstrong, cornet ; Fred Longshaw, harmonium or piano (tracks 1-10) ; Irving Johns, piano ...

The hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged—she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled ...