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I Want To Wish A Happy 96th Life Affirmation Day Anniversary (6/20) To My Maternal Grandfather The Late Great #ArthurTaylorSr aka #Grip Because He Kept A Grip of $$$ On His Person @ All Times Mane...He Became A #RighteousAnceSTAR 8/12/2005...He Was A Proud WW2 Veteran Who Participated In Both The #DDay Invasion Of #Normandy & #TheBattleOfTheBulge As A Member Of The Legendary #RedBallExpress...The Red Ball Express Was An Elite Unit Of Mostly African American Army Truck Drivers Who Were Primarily Responsible For Sustaining #GenGeorgePatton's #US3rdArmy With Food & Other Supplies As They Made Their Epic Trek Across Europe To #Berlin To Get #AdolfHitler...In Other Words, The Red Ball Express Was The U.S. Military's Version Of #AmazonPrime Or #FedEx Mane...See How It Works???
Anyways, My Grandfather Was A Huge Baseball & Jazz Fan...During The War When He Was Stationed At #CampPendleton Out In The Cali Desert, He Would Visit #LosAngeles On The Weekends...He Would Go To #SouthCentralLA aka #SouthLA To Legendary #CentralAve...Central Ave Was The #BealeStreet & #Harlem Of The #WestCoast...It Was A #BlackEntertainmentMecca Mane...#SOMEWHERE!!!
It Was On Central Ave That He Got To Hear The Real Jazz Giants In Person...My Grandfather Grip 1st Heard The Great #LesterYoung @ The Legendary #ClubAlabam...With That Said His Favorite All Time Jazz Sax Man Had To Be The Sax God #ColemanHawkins aka #Bean aka #Hawk From #StJosephMO...He Is Considered By Many In The Know To Be The #FatherOfJazzSaxophone...He Singlehandedly Transformed The #TenorSaxophone From Being A Comic & Novelty Instrument Into a True #SexSymbol Mane!!! He Had A Distinctive Huge Sound Full Of Vibrato, Swagger & Testosterone Mane!!! His #BeyondCategory 1939 Recording Of #BodyAndSoul Created The Rules For How To Do An Epic #JazzBallad101...He Was A Pioneer Who Stay Progressive, Innovative, & Relevant His Entire 50 Plus Career...He Also Became The Personal Mentor/Jegna To Many Future Sax Jazz Greats With Original Sounds Such As #CharlieParker, #SonnyRollins & #JohnColtrane...As I Write This I Am Currently Listening To The Hawk's 2/16/1944 Seminal Recording Of #WoodyNYou Which Is Considered To Be The 1st #BeBop Recording In History...The Recording Also Featured BeBop Greats #DizzyGillespie, #MaxRoach & #OscarPettitford...It's Been On Repeat For Several Hours...
Sometimes When We Listened To Coleman Hawkins My Grandfather Would Ask What Is Bean Up To Now...I Then Inform Him That Bean Been Dead Since May 19, 1969...His Reply: "Sho Nuff Fella!!! You Are Joking, Say It Ain't So, I Can't Believe It!!!"
Damn I Really Do Miss The Grand Old Man Mane...SOMEWHERE!!! #R2c2h2Says #BlackMusicMonth #ClassicMen #BlackExcellence #BlackBoyJoy
Anyways, My Grandfather Was A Huge Baseball & Jazz Fan...During The War When He Was Stationed At #CampPendleton Out In The Cali Desert, He Would Visit #LosAngeles On The Weekends...He Would Go To #SouthCentralLA aka #SouthLA To Legendary #CentralAve...Central Ave Was The #BealeStreet & #Harlem Of The #WestCoast...It Was A #BlackEntertainmentMecca Mane...#SOMEWHERE!!!
It Was On Central Ave That He Got To Hear The Real Jazz Giants In Person...My Grandfather Grip 1st Heard The Great #LesterYoung @ The Legendary #ClubAlabam...With That Said His Favorite All Time Jazz Sax Man Had To Be The Sax God #ColemanHawkins aka #Bean aka #Hawk From #StJosephMO...He Is Considered By Many In The Know To Be The #FatherOfJazzSaxophone...He Singlehandedly Transformed The #TenorSaxophone From Being A Comic & Novelty Instrument Into a True #SexSymbol Mane!!! He Had A Distinctive Huge Sound Full Of Vibrato, Swagger & Testosterone Mane!!! His #BeyondCategory 1939 Recording Of #BodyAndSoul Created The Rules For How To Do An Epic #JazzBallad101...He Was A Pioneer Who Stay Progressive, Innovative, & Relevant His Entire 50 Plus Career...He Also Became The Personal Mentor/Jegna To Many Future Sax Jazz Greats With Original Sounds Such As #CharlieParker, #SonnyRollins & #JohnColtrane...As I Write This I Am Currently Listening To The Hawk's 2/16/1944 Seminal Recording Of #WoodyNYou Which Is Considered To Be The 1st #BeBop Recording In History...The Recording Also Featured BeBop Greats #DizzyGillespie, #MaxRoach & #OscarPettitford...It's Been On Repeat For Several Hours...
Sometimes When We Listened To Coleman Hawkins My Grandfather Would Ask What Is Bean Up To Now...I Then Inform Him That Bean Been Dead Since May 19, 1969...His Reply: "Sho Nuff Fella!!! You Are Joking, Say It Ain't So, I Can't Believe It!!!"
Damn I Really Do Miss The Grand Old Man Mane...SOMEWHERE!!! #R2c2h2Says #BlackMusicMonth #ClassicMen #BlackExcellence #BlackBoyJoy
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