as the W. C. Handy Award until the name change in 2006. W. C. Handy Music Festival is held annually in Florence, Alabama. Another W.C. Handy Music Festival...

The W. C. Handy Theatre was a movie theater at 2355 Park Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. The venue was built for the African-American community during segregation...

The Blues Music Awards, formerly known as the W. C. Handy Awards (or "The Handys"), are awards presented by the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization...

Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy is a 1954 studio release by Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, described by Allmusic as "Louis Armstrong's finest record...

 11–14. Kubik 1999, p. 96. Palmer (1981: 46). Handy, Father (1941), p. 99. Schuller 1968, 66, 145n. W. C. Handy, Father of the Blues: An Autobiography, edited...

W. C. Handy Music Festival is held annually in Florence, Alabama, sponsored by the Music Preservation Society, Inc., in honor of Florence native W. C...

The W. C. Handy Jazz Camp is sponsored jointly by the W. C. Handy Music Festival and the University of North Alabama (UNA), and is held annually in Florence...

1985. Vaughan has won 6 Grammy Awards, 10 Austin Music Awards, and 5 W. C. Handy Awards, being nominated for "Best Contemporary Blues Male Artist," as...

comedian Handy Awards, named after W. C. Handy, which were renamed the Blues Music Awards in 2006. Handy Smurf, a character from The Smurfs Handy (Happy...

Blues" (or "St. Louis Blues") is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It was one of the...

The W. C. Handy Jazz All-Stars (also known as the W. C. Handy Festival All-Stars) is a group of jazz musicians who play annually at the W. C. Handy Music...

Billy Smythe, Scott Middleton, and Art Gillham. Another was published by W.C. Handy as "Hesitating Blues". Because the tune is traditional, many artists have...

Blues" is a song described by its composer, W. C. Handy, as a "southern rag". It was self-published by Handy in September 1912 and has been recorded by...

St. Louis Blues is a 1958 American film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy. It stars jazz and blues greats Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway...

Lee Lewis, Muddy Waters, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Robert Johnson, W. C. Handy, Bobby Whitlock, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. Jones...

Daylin was purchased by W. R. Grace and Company in 1979. In 1986, Grace's retail home improvement division, which included Handy Dan and Channel Home Centers...

blues song which has since become a jazz standard. It was written by W. C. Handy and J Tim Brymn. Critic Martin Williams wrote that pianist Art Tatum's...

Mississippi a few years before." Some sources attribute the modern score to W. C. Handy, who later modified it into a song known as "Atlanta Blues". He published...

was passed down through oral tradition. It was first written down by W. C. Handy, an African American composer and band leader. Its popularity led to...

Company are buried on 'brewers' row.' Oscar Hammerstein Sr. Lionel Hampton W. C. Handy Edward Harkness, philanthropist Lamon V. Harkness, businessman, stockholder...

(1914), composed by W. C. Handy in 1912 and recorded by the Victor Military Band in 1914, the first known commercial recording of Handy's first commercially...

recommended a trumpet player in Clarksdale, Mississippi named W. C. Handy. Mayor Thornton contacted Handy, and Memphis became the home of the musician who created...

albums on blues radio the year of its release and was nominated for a W. C. Handy Award. Hunter supported it with a North American tour. Produced by Tarry...

the Blues". W. C. Handy was born in Florence and is generally regarded as the "Father of the Blues". Every year since 1982, the W. C. Handy Music Festival...

northwestern Alabama's primary economic hub. Annual tourism events include the W. C. Handy Music Festival in the summer and the Renaissance Faire in the fall. Landmarks...

Daniel Richard Gottlieb (born April 18, 1953) is an American drummer. He was a founding member of the Pat Metheny Group and was co-founder of Elements...

in Oxford Square, Los Angeles. In 1916, Still worked in Memphis for W.C. Handy's band. He then joined the United States Navy to serve in World War I in...

"Beale Street Blues" is a song by American composer and lyricist W.C. Handy. It was named after Beale Street, a center of African-American music in Memphis...

Johnny O'Neal (born October 10, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American neo-bop jazz pianist and vocalist. His playing ranges from the technically virtuosic...

accounts have cited 1926 as the copyright date, W. C. Handy copyrighted "Loveless Love" in 1921 under Pace & Handy Music Co. A recording by Bessie Smith titled...