[Dixielandjazz] Avon Long (was "Bad Boy" by Lil Armstrong)

[Bill Haesler]

Harry Callaghan commented:
> I, quite frankly, had envisioned Avon Long as a rather tall lady who  
> peddled ladies' cosmetics.

Dear Harry,
Joke noted.
8>)
In my haste yesterday I omitted to advise that I have two photographs  
of Avon Long.
One on page 214 of 'Black Musical Theatre. From Coontown to  
Dreamgirls' by Allen Woll (1989. Louisiana State University Press).  
 From Duke Ellington's 'Beggars Holiday'.
The other on page 100 of 'The Cotton Club. A Pictorial and Social  
History of the Most Famous Symbol of the Jazz Era' by Jim Haskins  
(1977. Random House) which accompanies the account of his appearance  
in the 1934 Cotton Club Parade and his involvement with the emergence  
of Lena Horne from the Cotton Club chorus line.
Kind regards,
Bill.

End of thread, so here is a bonus.
A link to Duke Ellington's "Ebony Rhapsody" from the 1934 film "Murder  
at the Vanities".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaZNxl7dBoc&feature=related