More of the photo negatives – these are various musicians on the streets of New York. If anyone can help identify any of the musicians in the photos below, I’d appreciate it. Please do not reproduce any of these without permission.
Other photos from the collection include acts at the Apollo Theater and Bud Powell’s funeral procession.
These photos are of Bud Powell’s funeral procession on August 8, 1966. I’ve added a few more photos since I first put these on the site. These are scans of negatives from an unknown photographer’s collection – see my other pages of photos from the Apollo Theater and of Moondog, Jimmy Nottingham and street musicians in Harlem, Greenwich Village and Central Park.
Dan Morgenstern reported on the funeral for Down Beat’s September 22, 1966 issue:
In the lead was Harlem’s own Jazzmobile, appropriately draped for the occasion, and carrying a jazz band … the members were Benny Green, trombone; John Gilmore, tenor saxophone; Barry Harris, piano; Don Moore, bass; Billy Higgins, drums, and at the last moment, Lee Morgan, trumpet. First came “Now’s the Time” and then, perhaps more appropriately, “‘Round Midnight”, followed by two Powell tunes, “Bud’s Bubble” and “Dance of the Infidels”.
The music stopped when the cortege reached the church. The pallbearers, including musicians Max Roach, Tony Scott, Eddie Bonnemere, Kenny Dorham, Willie Jones, Hayes Alvis and Claude Hopkins, brought Powell’s coffin into the church where, many years before, he had been an altar boy.
If anyone can help identify anyone in the photos below, I’d appreciate it.
The theater in the background is the Renaissance Theater connected to ballroom of the same name (now demolished).
See here for a comparable photo of the theater.
For info on the deterioration and demolition see here, here and here
Much thanks to all who have helped with IDs, including Vince Gardner, Hyland Harris, Dan Morgenstern, Ira Gitler and Mike Boone.
I do not know this photographer’s name. I have confirmed with Getty Images that the photographer is neither Don Paulsen nor Chuck Stewart.
I found a very interesting batch of photo negatives by an amateur photographer working in New York City in the 1960’s and very early ’70s. I don’t know the photographer’s name, unfortunately, but I believe these are all unpublished. Since first posting these, I have confirmed with Getty Images that the photographer is neither Don Paulsen nor Chuck Stewart.
My negative scans aren’t professional quality, but they’ll do for checking these out.
Besides the ones below there are many others, especially of street scenes, street musicians and more at the Apollo – Ben E. King, Miriam Makeba, Cal Tjader, Dionne Warwick, Roberta Flack and others, and also of Machito at Town Hall.
I’ve had help in identifying most of the musicians in these photos, but there are still a couple I don’t have IDs for and I’d appreciate any help you can give. Please do not reproduce any of these.
I was able to date the photos of the show with Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey to 1961 or 1962 by the overlap between Freddie Hubbard joining the Jazz Messengers in 1961 and Leo Wright’s tenure with Gillespie ending in 1962. There are also photos of Cal Tjader from this show.
According to the online Chronology of Art Blakey, the Messengers with Hubbard played at the Apollo for some dates in beginning September 14, 1961, as well as a benefit show on September 13, 1962.
Chris Sheridan informs me that Leo Wright only played with Gillespie at the Apollo during the week of April 27 – May 3, 1962. An ad in the Amsterdam News includes both Gillespie and the Messengers on the bill for this week of shows.
Many thanks to all who have helped with IDs including John Clemente.