These pages are full of figures in music and art who made great and innovative contributions that, in my humble opinion, deserve not to be forgotten or overlooked. Such applies to the guitar innovator Teddy Bunn. He recorded with several jazz giants: Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Sidney Bechet and Victoria Spivey. An astute acoustic player during the 1930’s he pioneered the use of electric guitar in the 40’s. He remarked that he played mostly with his thumb! Some examples follow:
More Monk Chapeau work!
Photogtapher Irving Penn portraiture, acrobatic in its geometry.