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“If you were going to share the stage or the studio with Brother Jack, you had to have game, and you had to be at the top of it.” Happy Birthday, Soul jazz organist “Brother"Jack McDuff
“Never the world’s most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyes.” – Duke Ellington
Happy birthday JOHNNY HODGES #watercolor #watercoorportrait #jazz #johnnyhodges #jazzsaxophone #jazzart
“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”
Happy very Belated Birthday (July 7) LEROY (“Satchel”) PAIGE #negroleagues #satchelpaige #kansascitymonarchs #watercolorportrait #keithhenrybrown #iamtheleopard #andreabrown
“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” Happy Birthday, OLIVER SACKS!
“Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.” Happy Birthday, Big Bill Broonzy #bigbillbroonzy #legendarybluesartist #pencilsketch
Excited about this new interview I conducted with the extraordinary trumpet player/composer Theo Croker last week. Mr. Croker is an exciting young musician who definitely a strong point of view on the current state of jazz. It's Just Black Music https://t.co/LTwjXWNrIU
Still have a few more copies of my self-published Jazz Coloring Book available. 12 pages, cardstock glossy cover. Fea. Sonny Rollins, Ella Fitzgerald & others. #coloringbook #adultcoloringbook #jazzbiographies #penandinkdrawings #keithhenrybrown #iamtheleopard #andreabrownlit
“Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.”
Happy Birthday, BENNY GOODMAN #bennygoodman#jazzclarinetist #watercolorportrait #keithhenrybrown🎨 #pagestreetkids #andreabrownli
“But no I am faded and spent,
Even Helen of Troy would look seedy,
If she followed the pace I went. But that day I came in from the country, With my hair down my back in a curl; Through the length and the breadth of the city,
There was never a prettier girl.” by Bonnie Parker
"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