Black and Blue Star Carrie Smith Has Died

Jazz singer Carrie Smith, who co-starred in the Tony Award-winning musical revue Black and Blue, died of cancer on May 20 at the Lillian Booth Actors Home of the Actors Fund in Englewood, New Jersey, according to THe New York Times. She was 86.

The show, which co-starred Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins and Savion Glover, opened in January 1989 and ran for approximately 800 performances. An extravagant song-and-dance revue, saluting the great early jazz singers, the show feature Smith singing such classic songs as “I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues” and “I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man.”

During her long career, Smith sang at such prestigious venues as the Newport Jazz Festival, the Town Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and performed frequently in Europe

There are no immediate survivors.