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The Penguins, (Top to Bottom), Bruce Tate, Dexter Tisby, Cleve Duncan and Curtis Williams, 1955

The Ink Spots were a popular vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre which led to rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop. Their songs usually began with a guitar riff (using the chords I - #idim - ii7 - V7) followed by the tenor, who sang the whole song through. After the tenor finished singing, the bass would either recite the first half, or the bridge of the song, or would speak the words, almost in a free form, that were not part of the…

Street Corner Symphonies is a 15-volume year-by-year survey of doo-wop by scholar Bill Dahl.

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Apparently this photo was taken some time in the late-80s, when Kenny G opened up for Miles Davis. It’s like Miles is saying “Bitch, please!” with those eyes.

Duke Ellington cuts up at the piano, with dancer Charles 'Honi' Coles and Billy Strayhorn looking on, circa 1942-1943.

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A picture is worth zillions of words. The pictures of these Jazz musicians are presented in the moments stolen during their solitude, element and all stages of being as human beings and as musicians