DU jazzers: Here's a photo for you...

[KansDem]

http://www.agreatdayinindy.com/harlem1958.aspx">Art Kane, "Harlem,1958"

[1gobluedem]

1. I work at a jazz radio station; we have this framed in our front office

One of our on air hosts told me that the reason all the kids on the curb are scowling (most of them were just neighborhood kids, by the way) is because they all wanted to sit next to Count Basie who's on the end.

[KansDem]

3. Thanks for the explanation!

...they all wanted to sit next to Count Basie who's on the end.

I've known about this photo for some 40 years (I was a jazz fan in my teens) and wondered about those kids!

[tigereye]

2. I love that photo - one of my favorites.

I have bios of Monk, the new jazz history and The Loft Project sitting here - got em all for Christmas.



Too bad there aren't a few more women in the picture, though. Great to see McPartland and Williams there.

[KansDem]

4. bios

Have you read "Deep in a Dream" (Chet Baker) or "Straight Life" (Art Pepper)? Very gritty accounts of jazz in the 1950s, heroine, and "just getting by."

If you do, be sure to read Baker's bio first. Pepper's life makes Baker's sound like a church picnic! :)

[tigereye]

5. no, there are so many books to read, but thanks for the recs!

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