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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Jazz portraits

A few more:

Ben Webster





James Moody



Gerry Mulligan


Posted by Tad Richards at 2:40 PM
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Labels: Art, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, James Moody, Jazz

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