LaDell C. Manning

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Anok Yai by Luigi + Iango for Vogue Brasil - August 2019

“That was how Hawkins got hung up. The Henderson band was playing in St. Louis that evening, and Bean knew he ought to be on his way. But he kept trying to blow something to beat Ben [Webster] and Herschel [Evans, pictured above with Freddie Green] and Lester [Young]. When at last he gave up, he got straight in his car and drove to St. Louis. I heard he’d just bought a new Cadillac and that he burnt it out trying to make the job on time. Yes, Hawkins was king until he met those crazy Kansas City tenor men.”

The Shining (1980)

Aretha Franklin photographed by Richard Avedon on October 14, 1968.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, great painter

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