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Tales from the Jazz Age I'd like to take a crack at imagining who some of these people ... of booze hidden in the file cabinet, Starbucks Christmas Jazz CD playing in an endless loop -- the horror.
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... our living room, as seen here . By that time, "I Like Jazz," a Columbia Records sampler, was no longer around. Posted with my ... should get your own blog.
I Like "I Like Jazz" I still have the "I Like Jazz" LP in its original sleeve, but it's somewhat the worse for wear.
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Jazz style Don't let the banjo fool you. While what we today call "Dixieland" was certainly one of the major roots of jazz, what this bunch played was almost undoubtedly the kind of 1920s jazzy ... of music might invoke savage instincts?
-- "Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?"
Unmentionables She's dancing with a ...
... at the piano and Milt Hinton on bass, at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1954, five years from the close of her career and the end ... commenters.) View full size.
Is it Art Ford's Jazz Party? With Vinnie Burke on bass and Mal Waldron on piano?
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... up in a Polish community on the East Coast and our local jazz band had three accordions, all members of the same family. Yes, "Lady of ... to me. But there appears to be two violins in this jazz band and that seems to be a little bit different. I love the enthusiasm ...
Spring 1947. "To unite jazz and dance. Choreographer Lee Sherman and dancers in rehearsal -- Radio ...
Illuminating Those lights are great:
Jazz Hands I always thought that was a myth!
(The Gallery, Dance, Music, ...
March 1942. Washington, D.C. "Dancing class at an elementary school." Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Long Lasting Sportswear Wow! Those outfits the girls are wearing are exactly identical to ...
April 25, 1930. New York. "Choreographer Sarah Mildred Strauss and pupils." Cue "Rhapsody in Gray." Nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe. View full size.
Crepuscular Morphology I am always interested (hush) in the fact that women back then ...
My grandmother Hildur "Jerry" Richardson (1909-1997), New York, ca. 1927. A California-bred Stanford graduate, she moved to New York and worked as a secretary for a few years until meeting my grandfather in late 1930. View full size.
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This is my grandmother Hildur "Jerry" Richardson (1909-1997), New York, ca. 1927. A California-bred Stanford graduate, she moved to New York and worked as a secretary for a few years until meeting my grandfather in late 1930. From Shorpy's files. ...
... D.C. "Western Union telegram -- electric code machine." Jazz Age cryptography? Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View ... to have been either dark blue or dark green.
Re: Jazz Age cryptography? Maybe she's adding syncopation to some of those ...
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Destruction of the center of Jazz This is one of the buildings that destroyed the world center of jazz, the many clubs that lined 52nd street. "The Street" is now mostly sterile ...
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A Part of Jazz History "The Central" has been the Deer Head Inn for many years now. In ... hotel, it is also one of the oldest continuously operating jazz venues in the country.
By any other name ... Perhaps we ought to ...
... Clare Hanlon and the "Three Girlfriends") at http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/rama/VIC53080-2.ram Those without this player can find several 1931 recordings of it by visiting http://www.jazz-on-line.com/pageinterrogation.php and entering I Found A Million Dollar ...
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Posture's good, but... His jazz hands need some work.
Greatest QB, ever Without a doubt, this man ... much the only movie experience he was to receive.
Jazz Hands I now realize after looking again that he's posed as if someone ...
... tape deck specs for "wow and flutter"?
Vinyl - jazz and blues I still have the bulk of my jazz and blues vinyl collection, though I did unload some of it. Had to buy a ...