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 ...

Alberta Hunter had to leave the spotlight to get back in it. When she quit show business in the 1950s, with the blues style that had brought her international recognition years before no longer in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...