<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14071"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14643">Showing Parker and Armstrong and ....</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14644"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14646"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14645">Now, Marek, if you believe one liner note (or perhaps it's steaming tramp?) you will know that Charlie Parker ...</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14647"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14649"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14648">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></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14653"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14655"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14654">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></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14659"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14658">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></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14660"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14677"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14676">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></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14678"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14680"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679">Perhaps he could be mistaken for Charlie Parker, being faceless? <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14684"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14695"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679">I'd better stop before the Phantom of the Opera rises from <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14745"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14746"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14747"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14748"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679">all the very best this Palm Sunday!</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14749"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14679">Robert <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14681"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14682"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14750"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14072"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14076" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14075"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14074"> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14078"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14077" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14751" size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></b></font><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14226"> <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14227"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14294">Superjazzfan Mike Lynch of Pensacola forwarded this brief article about<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14228">Wayne Winborne, executive director of Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies. I<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14229">found it of significant interest; hope you will, too.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14230"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14118"> <br></div>From: Marek Boym <<a ymailto="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com" href="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14828">marekboym@gmail.com</a>><br><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14138">perhaps, Norm, perhaps.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14223">But showing Charlie Parker and Satchmo and giving the wrong names - Dizzy<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491752562957_14244">Gillespie and miles Davis, respectively, casts some doubt.<br></div><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>