<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Charlie</div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 9, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Marek Boym <<a href="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com" class="">marekboym@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Well, do a few hundred pictures prove he was not faceless? So what if he had been photographed countless times, and even filmed?<br class=""></div>I've never heard of Doug Suggs.<br class=""></div>Cheers<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 April 2017 at 19:49, ROBERT R. CALDER <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:serapion@btinternet.com" target="_blank" class="">serapion@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14071" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14643" class="">Showing Parker and Armstrong and ....</span></div><div id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14644" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14646" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14645" class="">Now, Marek, if you believe one liner note (or perhaps it's steaming tramp?) you will know that Charlie Parker ...</span></div><div id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14647" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14649" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14648" class="">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) <br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14653" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14655" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14654" class="">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, <br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14659" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14658" class="">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 <br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14660" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14677" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14676" class="">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. <br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14678" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14680" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679" class="">Perhaps he could be mistaken for Charlie Parker, being faceless? <br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14684" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14695" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679" class="">I'd better stop before the Phantom of the Opera rises from <br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14745" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14746" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14747" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14748" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679" class="">all the very best this Palm Sunday!</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14749" class=""><span id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679" class="">Robert <br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14681" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14682" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14750" class=""><span class=""></span></div><div class="m_-8594512177547431108qtdSeparateBR" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14072"><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="m_-8594512177547431108yahoo_quoted" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14076" style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14075" class=""> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif;font-size:16px" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14074" class=""> <div class="m_-8594512177547431108y_msg_container" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14078"> <font id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14077" size="2" face="Arial" class=""> <hr id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14751" size="1" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-weight:bold" class=""></span></b></font><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14226" class=""> <br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14227" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14294" class="">Superjazzfan Mike Lynch of Pensacola forwarded this brief article about<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14228" class="">Wayne Winborne, executive director of Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies. I<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14229" class="">found it of significant interest; hope you will, too.<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14230" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14118" class=""> <br class=""></div>From: Marek Boym <<a href="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14828" target="_blank" class="">marekboym@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14138" class="">perhaps, Norm, perhaps.<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14223" class="">But showing Charlie Parker and Satchmo and giving the wrong names - Dizzy<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-8594512177547431108yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14244" class="">Gillespie and miles Davis, respectively, casts some doubt.<br class=""></div><br class=""></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
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