jazzbo

Hmmm. . . what is so obscure about that Fuller cover? I've seen it many many times over the years!

I don't think I misinterpreted your intentions at all. It's not my thing. I can sortof see how others would enjoy them, and that's cool.

I'll just be a small dissenting voice because personally I HATE blindfold tests.

Bill Harris, Denzil Best, Flip Phillips, Billy Bauer, Lennie Tristano, and Chubby Jackson, Pied Piper, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 194

Almost time for his birthday!

Jean Goldkette!

Shadow Wilson, and ?

Evan, thought for sure you would know that is Sarah Vaughn!

What makes me wonder "why do I gots to be dat way" is how much I dig those early photos of Doris Day, who I really recoil from as the big star she later became. . . .

Yeah I've been obsessive like that. . . One of my best friends here is the jazz buyer at Tower Austin, and I would call and make him call Columbia and. . . well we both would get obsessive about this, and we both almost always bought the first copies in the store, at the same time!

Good catch on that date. . . maybe the date is wrong. Maybe it's not Evans. And hell, that's no porkpie hat!

Portrait of Ray Bauduc, Herschel Evans, Bob Haggart, Eddie Miller, Lester Young, and Matty Matlock, Howard Theater, Washington, D.C., ca. 1941

Caption from Down Beat: Gene Williams and Fran Warren, singers with the Claude Thornhill band, are checked by a Columbia Pictures technician while the band was making a short here.

Charlie Ventura, Dave Tough at the Famous Door

Portrait of Claude Thornhill, Sandy Siegelstien, Willie Wechsler, Micky Folus, Mario Rullo, Danny Polo, Lee Konitz, Bill Bushing, and Joe Shulman, Columbia Pictures studio, the making of Beautiful Doll, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947