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rjt4:Charlie Parker with Dean Benedetti (left)and Max Roach...

rjt4:This photo of Thelonious Monk and I was taken March of...

rjt4:Old Chicago buddies, Lou Rawls and Sam Cooke, early 50′s

rjt4:“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” -...

rjt4:PAUL CHAMBERS, photo by Francis Wolff

rjt4:“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”...

rjt4:Sonny Clark and Thelonious Monk at the Cathouse in...

rjt4:In his short tenure with Duke Ellington, Jimmy Blanton...

rjt4:TRAVELING WHILE BLACK IN THE JIM CROW ERAMigrant workers...

rjt4:James Brown & The Famous Flames

csmitty4u:rjt4:Once upon a time in the not too distant era...

rjt4:Lee Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Brown and Hank Jones.

rjt4:SOMETIMES ALL YOUR BEING ISABOUT UPRISING,NO WORDS...

rjt4:August 13 1967, the Jackson 5 wins amateur night at the...

rjt4:“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons...

rjt4:Started in 1959, Oakland, California’s East Bay Dragons...

rjt4: Nina Simone, Lorraine Hansberry, James Farmer and other civil rights activists.

rjt4: Gun control was very popular with conservatives, when armed Panthers followed police patrols i

rjt4:Montgomery Brothers, Buddy, Monk and Wes at foot of Golden Gate. Photo by William Claxton.