Evolution!
We live in the hills above Chardon, OH and usually receive a little more snow. Itβs been a heavy winter!
Photo of King Oliverβs Creole Jazz Band while on tour in Oakland, California in 1921. They were performing at an establishment called βThe Entertainer Clubβ. Personnel from top to bottom: King Oliver (holding his cornet), Honore Dutrey (trombone), Ed Garland (bass), Johnny Dodds (clarinet), Lillian βLilββ Hardin (piano) and Baby Dodds (drums).
Charlie Parker with Max Roach in front of the Chistera club in Marseille, France. May, 1949.
Photo by Paul Mansi.
Buddy DeFranco with Billie Holiday, Red Norvo and Red Mitchell at the KΓΆlner Messe in Cologne, Germany, January 22, 1954.
After reading Billie Holidayβs painful biography I was sorry I read it. Just imagine how she felt.
A sad life. Probably even sadder than the auiobiography or most biographies chronicled. What an artist, what an influence despite all that.
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Backstage at the Earle Theater
Nancy Wilson Speaking with Dexter Gordon photographed by Ted Williams during a Count Basie party at the Sutherland Hotel in Chicago, IL, November 8, 1961.
Ella Fitzgerald performing at βMr. Kellyβsβ nightclub, Chicago 1958. Photo for Life Magazine by Yale Joel
Joe Henderson at the Yotsuya Studio in Tokyo was taken on August 1, 1971.
The photograph was captured by renowned Japanese photographer Katsuji Abe (credited as K. Abe) for Shinko Music. The session took place during Hendersonβs 1971 tour of Japan, shortly before he recorded the live album Joe Henderson in Japan at the Junk Club in Tokyo on August 4, 1971
Iβm way behind. I only have a headphone system in the bedroom!
I have no audio in mine.
No audio, no tv.














