Pic from Facebook

Paul Gonsalves et al at Newport Jazz Festival 1956

No fake news, but it is stupid advice. lol

Power to the vinyl! :raised_fist:

From Metronome magazine, 1947

What an absolutely heartbreaking end of life. I wish I could have fixed her.

Yes. (This photo was from another hospital stay about twelve years before her final one).


Thelonious Monk at home–a crop of a photo by Jim Marshall that hangs in my office…

Johnny Hodges at a Christmas party with Duke Ellington and other musicians. Chicago, Illinois, 1955 or 1956.

Photo by Ted Williams

Ben Webster, Earle Warren, Lester Young, and Gerry Mulligan, TV studio NYC 1957.


Photo: Milt Hinton

Birthday boy Jerry.

Jerry Garcia in the Giza Plateau, September 1978

a birthday pic that Chris Albertson (jazz record producer, critic, historian) created for me more than fifteen years ago utilizing an early picture of me (in Swaziland) and playing on my shared birthday with Louis Armstrong. It’s very cool!