[Dixielandjazz] Parley Parker

[Marek Boym]

Well, do a few hundred pictures prove he was not faceless?  So what if he
had been photographed countless times, and even filmed?
I've never heard of Doug Suggs.
Cheers

On 9 April 2017 at 19:49, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Showing Parker and Armstrong and ....
>
> Now, Marek, if you believe one liner note (or perhaps it's steaming
> tramp?) you will know that Charlie Parker ...
>
> was known as the faceless man "for almost no photograph exists" (I owe
> this one to a flabbergasted reviewer -- it could even have been Steve Voce
> -- when the BBC was OK and not churning out such drivel as BLUES AMERICA --
> ). It's possible I have several copies of the statement (reproduced like
> the entire note on LPs costing ten shillings and musically OK)
>
> There is a photograph on the liner of the  CD brandished at me by a young
> American musician who had only just listened seriously to Parker and was
> really enthused.  CHARLIE PARKER it said,
> though the lady should not have been so impressed when I said it was in
> fact of Johnny Hodges.  I managed to find one of these myself
>
> The saddest faceless man item concerns Doug Suggs, known to a very few and
> presumably equally few as the St. Louis Jimmy Yancey. I gather he was Jimmy
> Yancey's colleague as a baseball groundsman. In any event, in what has been
> said to be the sole surviving photo of him he is sitting sideways on to the
> camera and wearing a nice suit and showing a nice head of curly hair but
> the photograph extends only a little way down his brow, the front part of
> his head, what one would call his face, is out of shot.
>
> Perhaps he could be mistaken for Charlie Parker, being faceless?
>
> I'd better stop before the Phantom of the Opera rises from
>
>
>
> all the very best this Palm Sunday!
> Robert
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
>
> Superjazzfan Mike Lynch of Pensacola forwarded this brief article about
> Wayne Winborne, executive director of Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies.  I
> found it of significant interest;  hope you will, too.
>
>
> From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
>
> perhaps, Norm, perhaps.
> But showing Charlie Parker and Satchmo and giving the wrong names - Dizzy
> Gillespie and miles Davis, respectively, casts some doubt.
>
>
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