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"I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them." – Ira Gershwin
Happy Birthday, ELLA FITZGERALD! #ellafitzgerald #legendaryjazzsinger #jazzsinger #louisarmstrong #linedrawing #jazzartist #atisketatasket #georgegershwin #jazzportrait
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach.” Happy Birthday, CHARLES MINGUS
#keithhenrybrown #charlesmingus #jazzillustration #pencilsketch l #composer #bassist @pwlicensing @paintedwordsartrep
"Dance First. Think later. It's the natural order." Happy Birthday, SAMUEL BECKETT
#sketchbook #authorportrait #samuelbeckett #keithhenrybrown #iamtheleopard #playwright #endgame #waitingforgodot #irishplaywright #quicksketch @painted.words @pwlicensing @paintedwordsartrep
“I'm Jack Johnson -- heavyweight champion of the world! I'm black! They never let me forget it. I'm black all right; I'll never let them forget it." Happy Birthday, JACK JOHNSON The Johnson–Jeffries Fight (1910) #jackjohnsonboxer #heavyweightchampionship #watercolor
“The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.”
Happy Birthday to the Queen Of Soul, ARETHA FRANKLIN!
One of the first album covers I remember seeing is for the great Aretha’s Amazing Grace. The music was a constant in our house
“I did like the attention I got when I plucked those strings and sang. I got better and better and more Spirit filled over the years and that’s when my mind turned you know to moving beyond the little churches.”
Happy Birthday, SISTER ROSETTA THARPE!
Happy Birthday, JACK KEROUAC
#jackkerouac #ontheroad #legendarywriter #beatwriter #jazzwriter #poet #dharmabums #pencildrawing #pencilsketch #writerportrait
"I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat."
Happy Birthday, WES MONTGOMERY!
#sketchbook #pencilsketch #wesmontgomery #jazzguitar #guitargod #wesmontgomerytrio #jazzmusician #keithhenrybrown #andreabrownlit #pagestreetkids
“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.” #keithhenrybrown #iamtheleopard #williamburroughs #nakedlunch #illustration #penandink
Happy Birthday, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
Happy Birthday, MALCOLM X
#malcomx #malcolmlittle #watercolor #watercolorportrait #portrait #nationofislam #byanymeansnecessary #keithhenrybrown #malcolmxbirthday #iamtheleopard