This is for valgeffen. This is what I did with the pics...hope you like it :)

After first arriving in new york, charlie parker took a job as a dishwasher at jimmy's chicken shack, where played the piano nightly. listening to his astonishing harmonic restructuring, virtuoso phrasing, and breakneck tempos every night for three months, charlie parker challenged himself to adopt these qualities into his playing, and he continued to practice tirelessly.

How did duke ellington create a new musical style that grew out of the ragtime tradition?

In 1912 martin thornton made a stop motion and live action experimental film called in golliwog land