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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This broadcast morphs gracefully from Women's History to Jazz Appreciation Month with new releases from Salsa de la Bahia, Jeffrey Gimble and Ashley Jackson, with birthday shoutouts to Dorothy Donegan ...

This music biography portrays the life of the legendary blues singer and songwriter Alberta Hunter After 40 years of show business success beginning in the 1920s Alberta became a nurse Twenty years ...

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 ...

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 ...