A Life With Jazz |Black & White Photography By Herman Leonard
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. |Nina Simone
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04.09.11
A Life With Jazz |Black & White Photography By Herman Leonard
No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music. |Billie Holiday
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27.09.11
A Life With Jazz |Black & White Photography by Herman Leonard
Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast. |Louis Armstrong
27.09.11
A Life With Jazz |Black & White Photography by Herman Leonard
There are notes between notes, you know. |Sarah Vaughan
10.10.11
Sarah Vaughan |Black Coffee
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple. |Leo Ornstein
10.10.11
![Josephine Baker
Josephine Bake (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. She was given such nicknames as the “Bronze Venus”, the “Black Pearl”, and the “Créole Goddess”.
Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture, to integrate an American concert hall, and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, but turned it down),[3] for assisting the French Resistance during World War II,[4] and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luq8eqko961r1gja5o1_250.jpg)
Josephine Baker
Josephine Bake (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. She was given such nicknames as the “Bronze Venus”, the “Black Pearl”, and the “Créole Goddess”.
Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture, to integrate an American concert hall, and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, but turned it down),[3] for assisting the French Resistance during World War II,[4] and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre.
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Randomness |40s
Fifth Avenue at SW Oak Street, February 1, 1948 Portland, Oregon USA
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04.12.11
