Jazz Emerges Part 2

Billie sings and plays, De De plays.

De De sings.

Blues Essential

Visible Roots of America’s Most Original Cultural Product

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In the jazz genome, the blues is essential.

Louis Armstrong administered his blues while performing open heart surgery on the whole world.

Miles Davis wove his kind of blues-isms amid the dark arteries and shadowy intersections of postmodern life.

Billie and De De Pierce? I just came to their house; they came to mine. Their house is your house.

Billie plays

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Billie at home

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De De before going home

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PHOTO CREDITS ABOVE: 1. unknown 2. Marty Kaelin 3. Charles Stroud
4-5. William Carter

.PHOTO CREDITS BELOW: by William Carter

Mance Lipscomb, Oakland, California c. 1960

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Unknown bluesman, Berkeley, California c. 1960

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Carol Leigh, San Francisco, c. 1960

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Mama Yancey, San Francisco, c. 1960

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Sonny Terry, San Francisco, c. 1960

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Jimmy Rushing, San Francisco, c. 1960

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Manny Sayles, New Orleans, c. 1986

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Louis Armstrong, Ithaca, New York, 1962

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