A black and white photo of a man with his fingers on the keys of a grand piano lay atop a stack on a table filled with papers at the auction house. His skin was…
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A Louis Armstrong I didn’t know
Posted in Black history, Music, Performers, and Plays
A couple years ago, I picked up a studio photo of Louis Armstrong with his first band the Hot Five from the 1920s. Armstrong was at the piano and seemed to be talking to the…
I’m always on the lookout for black music memorabilia, especially sheet music. I don’t buy the sheets with stereotypical images. I find them degrading and don’t want them. Time and again, I do come across…