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The Shed - Kansas Smitty’s Bar

ft. Giacomo Smith, Joe Webb, and Rodney 

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Andrew Oliver playing with his childhood friend Scott from Seattle.

Kansas Smitty’s Bar.

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Last few weeks at Kansas Smitty’s.

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Miles

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Bill Evans

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“People said I’d never make 35, then I’d never make 40, 45; now I’m almost 50, so I’m beginning to think they might be wrong” Chet Baker

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Miles Davis

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“It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note-it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.” Miles Davis 

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“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being…When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups…I want to speak to their souls.” John Coltrane

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Gene Krupa

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Miles Davis

by Don Hunstein

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Miles Davis

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Thelonious Monk at the United Nations, New York [1959] by Herb Snitzer.

This photograph was taken while Monk was playing to a very appreciative audience of Ambassadors and other distinguished personnel. Out of respect to the United Nations, Monk took off his trademark hat. 

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John Coltrane

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Miles Davis by Don Hunstein, 1969.

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Max Roach (1959)