Like us on FacebookSaxophonist Dave Keen in Canada sent this collage, saying: 'Below is a collage I made up years ago (40 at least!) from old jazz mag photos of my heroes. The square looking, young guy with hair, in the middle of the picture playing tenor is me. You’ll note Sandy Brown strategically placed on either side of me.'
Dave suggests that readers might like to try and identify people pictured in the collage. The answers are below - reading left to right (more or less - the pictures are not all lined up):
Top Row: Dexter Gordon, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Tubby Hayes, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus.
Next Row: Neil Swainson, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter.
Next Row: Jackie McLean, Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Dexter Gordon, Dexter Gordon, Sidney Bechet, Dexter Gordon.
Next Row: Coleman Hawkins, Coleman Hawkins, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Stitt, Charlie Parker.
Next Row: Sandy Brown, Dave Keen, Sonny Rollins, Sandy Brown, Art Blakey.
Next Row: Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz, Lester Young.
Bottom Row: Joe Henderson, Joe Henderson, Joe Henderson, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Coleman Hakins and Ella Fitzgerald.
The reproduction is not that good, so if you had trouble, this selection from the main picture was of :
Charles Mingus
Oscar Peterson
Ray Brown
Coleman Hawkins
© Sandy Brown Jazz 2014