The Icons is a four-part series through which we will explore the little-known stories of LGBTQ Black History icons. When one thinks of Alberta Hunter, the word resiliency should come to mind. The ...

FROM THE moment frail old Alberta Hunter stepped onto the stage of the Cookery on Oct. 10, 1977, and saw that the small Greenwich Village jazz club was packed, it was clear that no one had forgotten ...

Unless you were actually around when blues doyenne Alberta Hunter was coming up from Memphis to Chicago in 1917 or storming Broadway in postwar New York, there's no way to say how faithfully Ann ...

TAKE A MUSICAL journey through the life of jazz and blues legend Alberta Hunter in “Cookin’ At The Cookery: The Music and Times of Alberta Hunter” at Queens Theatre in the Park today, Saturday and ...

Ann Duquesnay had never heard of Alberta Hunter when a friend took her to a show at the Cookery in New York in 1982. She didn't know the singer she was about to see was 87, had been an international ...

Backed by pianist Gerald Cook and bassist Jimmy Lewis on this 1981 album, Hunter was at the height of her career revival. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—It's difficult to decide which was the most remarkable ...

It seems that trouble’s going to follow me to my grave. -- “Down Hearted Blues” by Alberta Hunter Though Alberta Hunter endured her share of troubles, the downhearted blues lament she wrote in 1922 ...

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On a recent rainy Monday night rehearsal of Jewelle Gomez’s new play Leaving the Blues, two actors ran the lines of their first scene together. Michael Gene Sullivan (recently on stage in She Loves Me ...

The 1977 comeback of 82-year-old singer Alberta Hunter is the basis for this charmingly unpretentious revue that could have a long future ahead of it, thanks to the opportunities it offers to a pair ...

There's no reason to sing the blues in Brentwood, because Alberta Hunter, channeled by Ann Duquesnay and Montego Glover, is there to sing them for you. Marion J. Caffey's play with music concerns the ...