The name game
The “Pres” and the “Bean” (Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins) Savoy Records Burt Goldblatt cover art. Mid-twentieth century jazz and it’s culture coined colorful slang and dubbed it’s players affectionate, funny nicknames such as “Bird”, “Hawk”, “Bags”, “Count”, “Pops”, “Duke”, “Lady Day”, “Dex”, “Dizzy”, “”Toots”, “Fatha”, “Cannonball”, “Cootie”, Monk”, “Sassy”……
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June 25th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
And Fats and Tubby and Newk and Trane and all those awesome cats!
January 11th, 2011 at 6:24 am
“Bean” is Coleman Hawkins, not Ben Webster!
January 11th, 2011 at 6:54 am
Oops! Thanks Pete!
July 24th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Hate to be the one to correct anyone, but this cover art is by Burt Goldblatt, not David Stone Martin. Martin did covers for Norman Granz’ labels (Clef, Norgran, Verve), as well as Asch, Dial, and Stinson, no Savoys..
July 24th, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Thanks JazzMan. My Bad.