[Dixielandjazz] Parley Parker

[Charles Suhor]

Eh? I’ve been a Bird watcher for over 60n years and have never seen the faceless/almost no photographs claim. I entered Charlie Parker on Google Image Search and found numerous different photos. I stopped counting at 25.

Charlie
 
> On Apr 9, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> On 9 April 2017 at 19:49, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com <mailto: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) 
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> 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.  
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> Perhaps he could be mistaken for Charlie Parker, being faceless?  
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> I'd better stop before the Phantom of the Opera rises from 
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> all the very best this Palm Sunday!
> Robert 
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> 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.
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> From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com <mailto:marekboym at gmail.com>>
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> 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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