Another Mystery Painting

Here is a painting we saw in an "Antique" shop in Colorado City, TX.

It is about 26 X 30 inches. It is a watercolor sketch of two musicians, trumpet and drums.

Below is the signature enlarged.

It looks like Michael something.

Smithson? Swinfel? Swindel? Swinfer?

What do you think?

Saturday's Child - The Accordion

The Polka will never be the same. Go ahead, visit Pete Barbutti and see what he has to say about the accordion.

The Profile (more than you really wanted to know) is here.

Lost Gallery The rescue mission for battered and abused orphan photographs.

For more about Double Exposures see this page in Lost Gallery.

Music Monday - David Stone Martin cover for Lester Young Collates #2

Now this one I know is David Stone Martin work. It says so right on the cover. The recording is of Lester Young, tenor sax. "Prez" is a jazz icon of that era. I remember the last time I saw him in 1957. He had to be helped out on the stage. He waited patiently for the Basie Band to play into a number with resonating section parts. When it came to the tenor solo spot, he slid through it with character and taste. When the solo was over, he was helped off the stage. Three years later, he was gone. Lester Young. Like Bix and Louis and Coleman Hawkins and scant few others, he started something. He made a sound that others wanted. He was unique. The Benny Goodman cover a couple weeks ago doesn't say, but I'm pretty sure it is from Burt Goldblatt.

The Profile (more than you really wanted to know)is HERE.

Lost Gallery The rescue mission for battered and abused orphan photographs.

Still the most popular page on this blog. The Subway Collection