Sunflower Somewhere Last Summer
Labels: Wordless Wednesday
Comments and journal pages.
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| There was something about the complexity, the inventiveness, the originality that appealed to me.
![]() There’s a single cut “Old Croix” on an album called Jazz West Coast Vol. III from Jazztone J1274. (A rather scarce album probably.) And there’s more than a few appearances with groups headed by other musicians. Alto saxophonists have always appealed to me. The tone and flexibility of the instrument and the individuality it can have depending on who plays, are factors. Another blog about him here... and Here.... I never got to see Art Pepper in person. But there have been others.
![]() And then there was the time that I clung to the edge of a stage in a large Kansas dance hall, looking up at the Ellington band. I watched Johnny Hodges sleep through the section parts of an Ellington classic. Then suddenly he was wide awake. He rose to the microphone to glide through a couple solo choruses, sat down again and drifted off again. He had been doing it for more than 30 years.
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Labels: Alison Young, Alto Saxophone, Art Pepper, jazz, Music
![]() | Thanks so much for reposting this. You know there is something special about this one.
And some of the previous conversation: ![]() ![]() My Uncle Carroll died a couple of years ago, he was in his 80s, and he never forgot the horrors he saw/endured back then. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I did learn from going through the slide show that the pictures show large even if you can't view them large on the post page. I'm learning more about this flickr thing everyday :)
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Labels: Found Photograph, Old Photograph, Texas, What Is Going On Here?
![]() | Crowell, Texas is actually a thriving small town over near the panhandle on state highway 70. This abandoned building is not typical of the town as so often is the case in Oklahoma and Texas. |
This tiny tintype portrait was found in a drawer in Purcell, Oklahoma and seemed a bit haunting. The vacant but knowing expression and the piercing eyes melt into a memory easily. The building has a haunting quality too, so it was no stretch to put them together. It was a bit of level adjustment, a few layers, colors and some freehand shading. Now the building is occupied. | ![]() |
![]() | Apartment Crowell, TX, |
Labels: Crowell, Found Photograph, Old Buildings, Old Photograph, Texas
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And ed ed had several photographs of books so I picked three.
![]() Books piling up, originally uploaded by mafleen. |