Chico the Ape

Fisher (1983)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, George Gruntz, Guy Pedersen and Daniel Humair  at the Blue Note, Paris, November 4, 1963.

Donald Byrd and Sonny Rollins during Rollins’ Volume One session, Hackensack NJ, December 16, 1956 (Photo by Francis Wolff)

Spinning some wax.

THE MASK OF SORROW. Sculpture by Ernst Neizvestny commemorating the victims of the Russian Gulag prison camps.

“The piano ain’t got no wrong notes.”

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Thelonious Monk

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Graphic - Thomas Danthony

Thelonious Monk. Underground. Columbia Records. 1968.

Art Blakey (The Jazz Messengers,  Thelonious Monk,  McCoy Tyner) 

Bassist: Percy Heath. Drums: Art Blakey. Trumpet: Lee Morgan.

one more time, w/feeling:

bassist - jymie merritt

drums - art blakey

trumpet - lee morgan

MILES OF MILES…

Miles Davis in many poses