images of musicians enjoying cigarettes

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[AndrewHill]

Shepp

[Chas]

Here we have Shorty puffing on the front cover ;

turn the sleeve over , and Shorty's sparking up another butt !

[Chas]

Bethlehem sometimes marred Burt Goldblatt's cover shots with overlaid text . For instance , this cover also exists with " The Thinking Man's Music" scrawled across it .

[brownie]

James Moody by Herman Leonard

[brownie]

Phil Woods (with cigarette) and Belgian musician Guy Dossche

[couw]

Bethlehem sometimes marred Burt Goldblatt's cover shots with overlaid text . For instance , this cover also exists with " The Thinking Man's Music" scrawled across it .

marred indeed!

[EKE BBB]

Cigar, not cigarette, but here's my favorite smoker:

[EKE BBB]

[EKE BBB]

[EKE BBB]

[AndrewHill]

Bethlehem sometimes marred Burt Goldblatt's cover shots with overlaid text . For instance , this cover also exists with " The Thinking Man's Music" scrawled across it .

marred indeed!

They did the same thing with this Johnson/Winding cover:

[brownie]

[brownie]

[EKE BBB]

What's Da Fatha smokin'?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

That reminds me of the Shelley Berman story about how, when he was young and dating a girl at a restaurant, he thought to emulate Bogart by lighting his and her cigarettes together - AND FORGOT TO GIVE HER ONE OF THEM!

MG

[Chas]

Don't think this one's made it to CD yet :

This one's made it to CD , but without this original cover :

[NaturalSoul]

This one's made it to CD , but without this original cover :

Never seen this cover. Cool!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

It's amazing how many of these artists are now dead, with many of the causes of their deaths reading like the side of pack of cigarettes, "Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema". I'm glad my generation got ample warning of the dangers of this habit. Nowadays, we just pickle our livers.

[Chuck Nessa]

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

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[NaturalSoul]

MG

Now that's a GREAT album title, cover, etc...I want it!

So do I - I haven't got ANY of Sonny's later Cadets.

MG

Not sure you have this one, or if you like mp3's - but you can buy "Mr. Bojangles" over at the i-tunes store for $9.99.

[brownie]

[brownie]

A Great Day in Harlem (photo by Art Kane)

Among those smoking are Charles Mingus, Rex Stewart, Lester Young (cigarette not seen), MaryLou Williams, Stuff Smith, Coleman Hawkins.

Also Willie The Lion Smith who was enjoying a cigar while sitting on another stairs and was out of camera range!

Edited December 12, 2007 by brownie