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#BornOnThisDay in 1906: #FrankieNewton, the #jazz #trumpet great you think you've never heard. Frankie's band backed #BillieHoliday at the #CafeSociety in 1939 and on several of her great #Commodore recordings from that year, most notably, #StrangeFruit. A rare stylist, a musician's musician and a radical intellectual--Newton was tragically underrecorded. #thread 🧵 (1/5)
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Circa 1991, my dad wrote a pretty nice autobiographical essay that I published on my blog in 2004.
http://hungryblues.net/2004/09/02/political-autobiography/#FamilyHistory #jazz #Boston #FrankieNewton #NYC #NewJersey #LaborMovement #elections #PeaceMovement #CivilRightsMovement #education #phtography #history #KoreanWar #Jewish #NewJewishAgenda #mazeldon #autobiography (3)
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Today would be my dad's 95th birthday. It's hard to believe it's been 25 years since he died. Here's a biographical thing that I wrote about him back when I first started blogging in 2004:
Some Notes On The Education of Paul Greenberg
http://hungryblues.net/2004/10/01/some-notes-on-the-education-of-paul-greenberg/#FamilyHistory #jazz #Boston #FrankieNewton #NYC #NewJersey #LaborMovement #elections #PeaceMovement #CivilRightsMovement #education #phtography (1)