{"title":"A.A. Entertainers Collection","description":"For more than 200 years, ever since the arrival of the first Blacks in English America, Black American popular music has been the mainstream that defined all other tributaries. During and after slavery, Black Americans clearly demonstrated their propensity for improvisation in the songs they sang and played. Thus was born, at the turn of the century , ragtime and the blues, from which jazz evolved. Rhythm \u0026amp; blues emerged during the 1940s, rock |n’ roll during the ‘50s, soul in the ’60s, and funk and disco music in the ’70s. In each case, White Americans were greatly influenced by the Black music of the day. Consequently, says Jack |the Rapper’ Gibson, a veteran of the industry. Black music was copied and expanded by While Americans, and While artists became rich and famous for their imitations. Among the more glaring examples were Elvis Presley, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. And some argue that the creative choreography of Motown artists set the standards for the entire industry. Historical creativity repeated itself in the 1980s, when Black again fashioned a new musical form, this time rap. In the midst of urban decay and hopelessness, this creative expression was born of frustration with social ills. Nevertheless, the aggressive, vehement urban street poetry took the country by storm in the mid-80s, permeating if not dominating – ratio, advertisements and movies. Before long, While suburban kids adopted the inner-city, hip-hop culture culture and music, and propelled rap into Top 40 prominence.","products":[{"product_id":"billie-holiday-1003","title":"Billie Holiday #1003","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eBillie Holiday\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsidered by many to be the greatest jazz vocalist of all time, Billie Holiday lived a tempestuous and difficult life. Her singing expressed an incredible depth of emotion that spoke of hard times and injustice as well as triumph. Though her career was relatively short and often erratic, she left behind a body of work as great as any vocalist before or since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn Eleanora Fagan in 1915, Billie Holiday spent much of her young life in Baltimore, Maryland. Raised primarily by her mother, Holiday had only a tenuous connection with her father, who was a jazz guitarist in Fletcher Henderson’s band. Living in extreme poverty, Holiday dropped out of school in the fifth grade and found a job running errands in a brothel. When she was twelve, Holiday moved with her mother to Harlem, where she was eventually arrested for prostitution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesperate for money, Holiday looked for work as a dancer at a Harlem speakeasy. When there wasn’t an opening for a dancer, she auditioned as a singer. Long interested in both jazz and blues, Holiday wowed the owner and found herself singing at the popular Pod and Jerry’s Log Cabin. This led to a number of other jobs in Harlem jazz clubs, and by 1933 she had her first major breakthrough. She was only twenty when the well-connected jazz writer and producer John Hammond heard her fill in for a better-known performer. Soon after, he reported that she was the greatest singer he had ever heard. Her bluesy vocal style brought a slow and rough quality to the jazz standards that were often upbeat and light. This combination made for poignant and distinctive renditions of songs that were already standards. By slowing the tone with emotive vocals that reset the timing and rhythm, she added a new dimension to jazz singing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith Hammond’s support, Holiday spent much of the 1930s working with a range of great jazz musicians, including Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, and most importantly, the saxophonist Lester Young. Together, Young and Holiday would create some of the greatest jazz recordings of all time. They were close friends throughout their lives—giving each other their now-famous nicknames of “Lady Day” and the “Prez.” Sympathetic to Holiday’s unique style, Young helped her create music that would best highlight her unconventional talents. With songs like “This Year’s Kisses” and “Mean To Me,” the two composed a perfect collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was not, however, until 1939, with her song “Strange Fruit,” that Holiday found her real audience. A deeply powerful song about lynching, “Strange Fruit” was a revelation in its disturbing and emotional condemnation of racism. Holiday’s voice could be both quiet and strong at the same time. Songs such as “God Bless the Child” and “Gloomy Sunday” expressed not only her undeniable talent, but her incredible pain as well. Due to constant racial attacks, Holiday had a difficult time touring and spent much of the 1940s working in New York. While her popularity was growing, Holiday’s personal life remained troubled. Though one of the highest paid performers of the time, much of her income went to pay for her serious drug addictions. Though plagued by health problems, bad relationships, and addiction, Holiday remained an unequaled performer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the late 1940s, after the death of her mother, Holiday’s heroin addiction became so bad she was repeatedly arrested— eventually checking herself into an institution in the hopes of breaking her habit. By 1950, the authorities denied her a license to perform in establishments selling alcohol. Though she continued to record and perform afterward, this marked the major turning point in her career. For the next seven years, Holiday would slip deeper into alcoholism and begin to lose control of her once perfect voice. In 1959, after the death of her good friend Lester Young and with almost nothing to her name, Billie Holiday died at the age of forty-four. During her lifetime she had fought racism and sexism, and in the face of great personal difficulties triumphed through a deep artistic spirit. 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Hendrix is recognized as one of the most influential guitar players in rock music history. He achieved worldwide fame in 1967, playing at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival before his death in 1970, at the age of 27. A self-taught musician, Hendrix played a right-handed Fender Stratocaster guitar turned upside down and re-strung so that the strings were right-side up. Hendrix pioneered the technique of guitar feedback with overdriven amplifiers, incorporating what was previously an undesirable sound into his music. He built upon the innovations and influences of blues stylists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Buddy Guy, and derived style from rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, and Cornell Dupree, as well as from traditional jazz. Hendrix's flamboyant stage persona was inspired by rock pioneer Little Richard, having toured in Richard's back-up band \"The Upsetters\". Hendrix strove to combine what he called \"earth\", a blues, jazz, or funk driven rhythm accompaniment, with \"space\", the high-pitched psychedelic sounds created by his guitar improvisations. As a record producer, Hendrix also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas; he was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic and phasing effects during the recording process. Hendrix was inducted into the Rock \u0026amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.) was dedicated in 1994. In 2006, his debut album, Are You Experienced, was inducted into the United States National Recording Preservation Board's National Recording Registry. Rolling Stone named Hendrix number one on their list of the \"100 greatest guitarists of all time\" in 2003[3] and ranked him #6 in their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004 [4]. He was also ranked number three in VH1's \"100 Greatest Hard Rock Artists.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\" \u003cbr \/\u003e\n  Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr \/\u003e\n  \u003cbr \/\u003e\n  For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $8.00","offer_id":96823,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Picture Frame with Glass, 11\" x 17\" $25.00","offer_id":49774542,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" $ Print  25.00","offer_id":1476342,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1004_jimi_Hendrix_2009.jpg?v=1571438524"},{"product_id":"bob-marley-1011","title":"Bob Marley #1011","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\" I don't stand for the black man's side, \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e I don' t stand for the white man's side.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e I stand for God's side.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Nesta Marley, (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the most widely known performer of reggae music, and is famous for popularizing the genre outside Jamaica. A faithful Rastafari,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarley is regarded by many as a prophet of the religion. Marley is best known\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efor his ska, rock steady and reggae songs, which include the hits \"I Shot the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSheriff\", \"No Woman, No Cry\", \"Three Little Birds\" \"Exodus\", \"Could YouBe Loved\", \"Jamming\", \"Redemption Song\" and one of his most famous love songs, \"One\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove\" His posthumous compilation album Legend (1984) is the best-selling reggae album ever, with sales of more than 12 million copies. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\" \u003cbr \/\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr \/\u003e \u003cbr \/\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eplease call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":96841,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Picture Frame with Glass, 11\" x 17\" $25.00","offer_id":49775952,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 25.00","offer_id":1473032,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1011_Bob_Marley_2009.jpg?v=1571438524"},{"product_id":"bill-cosby-1015","title":"Bill Cosby #1015","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\" In order to succeed,\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e your desire for success \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e should be greater than\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e your fear of failure.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n Bill Cosby is one of the United States' most popular and admired entertainers, known for his wit and warmth both onstage and off. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start working clubs and making comedy albums, then moved into television with a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy. He later starred in his own series, The Bill Cosby Show, in the early 1970s. He was one of the major characters on the children's television show The Electric Company for its first two seasons, and created the humorous educational cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in the city. Cosby also acted in numerous films, although none has received the acclaim of his television work. During the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in what is considered one of the decade's defining cultural sitcoms, The Cosby Show, which aired from 1984 to 1992. The sitcom featured an upper-class African-American family without resorting to the kinds of stereotypes previously seen among African-Americans in prime-time television. While some argued that The Cosby Show ignored the issues of racial inequity still prevalent in society, many agreed that it showcased positive role models. The late 1990s brought trouble for Cosby, first in early 1997 with the death of his only son, Ennis, who was shot to death on a Los Angeles freeway in a random act of violence. Also that year, he was dragged into a court case that involved a young woman who was charged with extortion in claiming that he was her biological father - a shocking accusation that Cosby denied. Cosby admitted to having a one-time affair with the woman's mother. \n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr \/\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr \/\u003e \u003cbr \/\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr \/\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":96852,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":49704302,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $25.00","offer_id":1472832,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1015_Bill_Cosby_2009.jpg?v=1571438524"},{"product_id":"josephine-baker-1019","title":"Josephine Baker #1019","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003eJosephine Baker\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFreda Josephine McDonald, was a French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames \"Black Venus,\" \"Black Pearl\" and \"Creole Goddess.\". She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France. Though based in France, she supported the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, and protested racism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, whom she called her \"Rainbow Tribe.\"[1] She also refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and worked with the NAACP. For some time she lived with all of her children and an enormous staff in a castle, Château de Milandes, in the Dordogne in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency hysterectomy.) In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u0026nbsp; Wearing her Free French uniform with her Legion of Honor decoration, she was the only woman to speak at the rally.\u0026nbsp; As mentioned above on tours of the United States she refused to perform in segregated nightclubs. Her insistence on mixed audiences helped to integrate shows in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nevertheless, her career was on a downturn and she was near bankruptcy until she was bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, Princess Grace of Monaco, another expatriate American living in Europe. \u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr \/\u003e\nPrint with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr \/\u003e\n\u003cbr \/\u003e\nFor 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr \/\u003e\nplease call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $8.00","offer_id":96861,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Picture Frame with Glass, 11\" x 17\" $25.00","offer_id":49778232,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 25.00","offer_id":1476452,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1019_Josephine_Baker_2009.jpg?v=1571438525"},{"product_id":"josephine-baker-au-bal-negre-1020","title":"Josephine Baker - Au Bal Negre #1020","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003e\n  \u003ch1\u003eAu Bal Negre\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFreda Josephine McDonald, was a French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames \"Black Venus,\" \"Black Pearl\" and \"Creole Goddess.\". She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France. Though based in France, she supported the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, and protested racism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, whom she called her \"Rainbow Tribe.\" She also refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and worked with the NAACP. For some time she lived with all of her children and an enormous staff in a castle, Château de Milandes, in the Dordogne in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency hysterectomy.) In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of the Rev. 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Paul Robson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was the child of a clergyman who had been born a slave. After winning a scholarship competition, Robeson attended Rutgers University, distinguishing himself as both scholar and athlete. While at Rutgers he augmented his scholarship income by offering concerts and dramatic performances. After graduating from Columbia Law School in 1923, Robeson turned to dramatic and musical theater where he became internationally celebrated. His roles in Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924) and Emperor Jones (1924 in New York and 1925 in London) catapulted him to prominence as a serious actor when opportunities for African Americans on stage were generally limited to the comic or to racist stereotypes. Robeson's performances in productions of Shakespeare, particularly Othello, were enormously popular and won him enthusiastic critical acclaim. Robeson was always acutely conscious of the complex racial politics of the American scene (even as early as his Rutgers years). From the mid-1930s on Robeson became increasingly interested in Communism, particularly as it seemed to speak to the plight of African Americans. In this respect, the trajectory of Robeson's life mirrors that of many African American artists and intellectuals, such as Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Robeson's interest in radical politics deepened over the years, even as it limited his opportunities to perform. This limitation became especially pronounced in the early 1950s, given the advent of explicit conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. Unlike Wright, who renounced Communism in favor of a more generalized anticolonialism, Robeson continued his interest in the politics of Communism, bringing him into conflict with the government of the United States, which revoked his passport (in 1950), though it was restored in 1958. Robeson spent the latter years of his life in ill health, living in Europe and later in the United States.\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr \/\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr \/\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr \/\u003e \u003cbr \/\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr \/\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 8.00","offer_id":96865,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Picture Frame with Glass, 11\" x 17\" $25.00","offer_id":49778612,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 25.00","offer_id":1478632,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1021_Paul_Robeson_2009.jpg?v=1571438525"},{"product_id":"harlem-renaissance-1344","title":"Harlem Renaissance #1344","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003eDuring the Harlem Renaissance The Cotton Club\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003e\nwas one of the most famous nightclubs in history.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;The Cotton Club's story points at many reasons why we love the 1920's\u003cbr \/\u003e\nand also why the decade has a split personality.\u0026nbsp; Jazz is art of individuals\u003cbr \/\u003e\nworking in unison to create a sublime sound.\u0026nbsp; Like the rest of the 1920s,\u003cbr \/\u003e\njazz distinguishes itself by being different from the mainstream. Jazz lent\u003cbr \/\u003e\nitself perfectly to small nightclubs and speakeasies that dotted Harlem.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nGangster Owen \"The Killer\"\u0026nbsp; Madden bought the \"Club Deluxe\" from Jack\u003cbr \/\u003e\nJohnson, the former boxing world champion, and renamed the venue The\u003cbr \/\u003e\nCotton Club. Madden was a sharp businessman who had spent 9 years in \u003cbr \/\u003e\nSing Sing prison for the murder of Little Patsy Doyle.\u0026nbsp; As his nickname\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nsuggests, Madden was tough, despite his frail appearance! He was\u003cbr \/\u003e\ntough as a man and as a boss.\u0026nbsp; In his younger years, Madden was shot\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\neleven times at close range by three members of a rival gang, the \"Hudson\u003cbr \/\u003e\nDusters.\" Within a year, Madden had recovered from his wounds and many\u003cbr \/\u003e\nthe rival gang members were dead. Madden was not a man to mess with.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nMadden ruled the Cotton Club, he had no tolerance for screwups and\u003cbr \/\u003e\nmaintained a white-only customer policy. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003eDuring the 1920s and 30s, The Cotton Club was the most famous \u003cbr \/\u003e\nnightclub,not only in Harlem, but in all of New York City. Most of\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nHarlem’s famous musicians played the Cotton Club, from Louis\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nArmstrong to Duke Ellington, from Ethel Waters to the Bill Robinson.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nAs well as being a crucible for new musical styles, The Cotton\u003cbr \/\u003e\nClub could also be seen as a lightning rod for Harlem history:\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nalthough many black stars made their debuts on its stage, the\u003cbr \/\u003e\naudience was reserved for whites only. The club was forced to\u003cbr \/\u003e\nclose after the 1935 riots because it was considered unsafe\u003cbr \/\u003e\nfor the club’s downtown clientele. The name “Cotton Club” was\u003cbr \/\u003e\nconceived by the original owner, mobster Owney Madden, from\u003cbr \/\u003e\nthe light brown color of raw cotton.Madden hoped to cash in on\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nthe growing Harlem music scene, featuring “Black” entertainment\u003cbr \/\u003e\nfor an upscale white audience. Madden demanded the girls on his \u003cbr \/\u003e\nchorus line be “cotton colored,” or light-skinned Blacks. The Cotton\u003cbr \/\u003e\nClub, was itself a black-and-tan fantasy for the whites-only clientele.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nThe wait staff were all dark-skinned, the chorus line all light-skinned,\u003cbr \/\u003e\nas illustrated in the program at right.The club got its name from its\u003cbr \/\u003e\nOld South plantation decor. Patrons could imagine themselves back\u003cbr \/\u003e\nin a mythic South with black and tan slaves eager to do their bidding.\u003cbr \/\u003e\nThe show at the Cotton Club was a musical review, loosely based\u003cbr \/\u003e\nupon\u0026nbsp; “Ziegfeld’s Follies” and featuring singers, dancers, and\u003cbr \/\u003e\noccasional guest stars. There were two performances a night, at\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nmidnight and 2:00. 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\"Well,\" \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e Davis replied, \"I've changed music four or five\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003etimes.  What have you done of any importance\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e other than be white?\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAll a musician can do is to get\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e closer to the sources of nature, \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e and so feel that he is in \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e communion with the natural laws.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \"Any musician who says he is playing\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e better either on tea, the needle, or\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e when he is juiced, is a plain straight liar . . .\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e You can miss the most important\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e years of your life, the years of possible\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e creation.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLegends of Jazz\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eMiles Davies  John Coltrane  Charlie Parker  \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e 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there. \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWe say we're basketball players first\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eand entertainers second.” \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Harlem Globetrotters are a basketball team that combines athleticism and comedy to create one of the best-known sports entertainment franchises in the world. Created by Abe Saperstein in 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, the team adopted the name Harlem because of its connotations as a leading African-American community. Over the years it has toured over 118 countries, playing more than 20,000 exhibition games, mostly against deliberately ineffective opposition like the Washington Generals (1953–1995) and the New York Nationals (1995–present). The Globetrotters are well-known throughout the basketball world. The organization started in the Negro American Legion League as the \"Giles Post\", and around 1926 turned professional. Shortly after, Saperstein became the manager and coach of the team, taking over for Dick Hudson. This was possibly because the all-black team needed a white man to book games in the midwest. On January 3, 1928, the Giles team began play at the newly constructed Savoy Ballroom on Chicago's South Side. They took a new name, the Savoy Big Five. In the spring of 1928, after a dispute over money, Saperstein and some of the players left the Savoy and went back to barnstorming, renaming the team the Harlem Globetrotters, picking Harlem as their home city since Harlem was considered the center of African-American culture at the time, and an out of town team name would give the team more of a mystique.[1] After four decades of existence, the Globetrotters played their first \"home\" game in Harlem in 1968. The Globetrotters were initially a serious competitive team, despite their flair for entertainment. Initially, they would only clown for the audience after establishing a safe lead in the game. In 1940, they accepted an invitation to participate in the World Professional Basketball Tournament. Defeating the New York Rens in the semi-finals, they advanced to the championship game, where they beat the Chicago Bruins in overtime by a score of 31-29. The Globetrotters beat the premier professional team, George Mikan and the Minneapolis Lakers, for two games in a row in 1948 and 1949, with the Lakers winning the third contest. The February 1948 win (by a score of 61-59, on a buzzer beater) was a hallmark in professional basketball history, as the all-black Globetrotters proved they were on an equal footing with the all-white Lakers. Momentum for ending the NBA's color line grew, and in 1950, Chuck Cooper became the first black player drafted by an NBA team. From that time on the Globetrotters had increasing difficulty attracting and retaining top talent. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":96917,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50816932,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $15.00","offer_id":1475982,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1289_harlem_globetrotters_2009.jpg?v=1571438525"},{"product_id":"john-coltrane-1022","title":"John Coltrane #1022","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eJohn Coltrane\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\" Love Supreme\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Although recordings of his work from as early as 1946 exist, Coltrane's recording career did not begin in earnest until 1955. From 1957 onward he recorded and produced dozens of albums, many of them not released until years after his death. A hugely influential jazz musician, Coltrane has been credited with reshaping modern jazz and with being the predominant influence on successive generations of saxophonists. Along with tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Sonny Rollins, Coltrane fundamentally altered expectations for the instrument. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca class=\"alnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/robeson-1\" name=\"\u0026amp;lid=ALINK\" target=\"_top\"\u003eRobeson\u003c\/a\u003e, Paul\u003c\/span\u003e (1898–1976), influential African American singer, actor, and social activist. Paul Robson was born in \u003ca class=\"alnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/princeton-new-jersey\" name=\"\u0026amp;lid=ALINK\" target=\"_top\"\u003ePrinceton\u003c\/a\u003e, New Jersey, and was the child of a clergyman who had been born a slave. After winning a scholarship competition, Robeson attended \u003ca class=\"alnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/rutgers-university\" name=\"\u0026amp;lid=ALINK\" target=\"_top\"\u003eRutgers University\u003c\/a\u003e, distinguishing himself as both scholar and athlete. While at Rutgers he augmented his scholarship income by offering concerts and dramatic performances. After graduating from \u003ca class=\"alnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/columbia-law-school\" name=\"\u0026amp;lid=ALINK\" target=\"_top\"\u003eColumbia Law School\u003c\/a\u003e in 1923, Robeson turned to dramatic and musical theater where he became internationally celebrated. His roles in Eugene O'Neill's \u003ci\u003eAll God's Chillun Got Wings\u003c\/i\u003e (1924) and \u003ci\u003eEmperor Jones\u003c\/i\u003e (1924 in New York and 1925 in London) catapulted him to prominence as a serious actor when opportunities for African Americans on stage were generally limited to the comic or to racist stereotypes. Robeson's performances in productions of \u003ca class=\"alnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/william-shakespeare\" name=\"\u0026amp;lid=ALINK\" target=\"_top\"\u003eShakespeare\u003c\/a\u003e, particularly \u003ca class=\"alnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/othello\" name=\"\u0026amp;lid=ALINK\" target=\"_top\"\u003eOthello\u003c\/a\u003e, were enormously popular and won him enthusiastic critical acclaim.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":96923,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Picture Frame with Glass, 11\" x 17\" $25.00","offer_id":49778762,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $15.00","offer_id":1476402,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1022_John_coltrane_2009.jpg?v=1571438525"},{"product_id":"bessie-smith-1023","title":"Bessie Smith #1023","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \" There ain't nothin' I can do, or nothin' I can say,\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ethat folks don't criticize me. But I'm goin' to do just\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eas I want to anyway, And don't care if they all\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003edespise me. \"Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\nSmith, Bessie, 1894–1937, American singer, b. Chattanooga, Tenn. About 1910 Smith became the protegee of Gertrude (Ma) Rainey, one of the earliest blues singers. After working in traveling shows she went to New York City, where she made (1923–28) recordings, accompanied by such outstanding artists as Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, and James P. Johnson. She quickly became the favorite singer of the jazz public. The power and somber beauty of her voice, coupled with songs representing every variety of the blues, earned her the title “Empress of the Blues.” Around 1928, changing popular taste and her growing alcoholism led to a decline in her popularity. Though she continued to tour, her last years were embittered. She died after an automobile accident while on tour in Mississippi, the circumstances of which are discussed in Edward Albee's play The Death of Bessie Smith (1960). Numerous critics regarded her as the greatest of all jazz artists, and her fame increased enormously after her death. \n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr \/\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr \/\u003e \u003cbr \/\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr \/\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":96925,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":49704202,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $25.00","offer_id":1484952,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1023_Bessie_Smith_2009.jpg?v=1571438525"},{"product_id":"john-coltrane-1025","title":"John Coltrane #1025","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e“ MY FAVORITE THINGS”\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eJohn Coltrane\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Although recordings of his work from as early as 1946 exist, Coltrane's recording career did not begin in earnest until 1955. From 1957 onward he recorded and produced dozens of albums, many of them not released until years after his death. A hugely influential jazz musician, Coltrane has been credited with reshaping modern jazz and with being the predominant influence on successive generations of saxophonists. 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She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Actress category and the third African American to receive a nomination in any category overall (after Hattie McDaniel and Ethel Waters). Dorothy Dandridge began singing in her church's choir. Ruby Dandridge — an ambitious, small-time local performer who would become a successful stage and screen actress — created an act with her daughters that performed as \"The Wonder Children.\" The \"Wonder Children\" toured in the South for five years with Ruby's lesbian partner, Geneva Williams, while Ruby continued working and performing in Ohio. Some biographies document this period as the beginning of the sexual abuse the young Dorothy would suffer from Williams until adolescence. During this period, the young Dandrige toured non-stop, rarely attending school. With the start of the Great Depression, work for the Wonder Children dried up as it did for many of the Chitlin' circuit performers. Ruby Jean Butler Dandridge packed her family and moved to Hollywood in search of a new career for her daughters and herself. In Los Angeles, she found steady work, playing a domestic in small parts on the radio and in film. During this time, Geneva continued to train and rehearse the girls; Dorothy was also re-enrolled in school. 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She was given the nicknames \"Black Venus,\" \"Black Pearl\" and \"Creole Goddess.\". She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France. Though based in France, she supported the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, and protested racism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, whom she called her \"Rainbow Tribe.\" She also refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and worked with the NAACP. For some time she lived with all of her children and an enormous staff in a castle, Château de Milandes, in the Dordogne in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency hysterectomy.) In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Wearing her Free French uniform with her Legion of Honor decoration, she was the only woman to speak at the rally.  As mentioned above on tours of the United States she refused to perform in segregated nightclubs. Her insistence on mixed audiences helped to integrate shows in Las Vegas, Nevada. 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During that time\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMarley's growing style encompassed every aspect in the rise of Jamaican \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003emusic, from ska to contemporary reggae. That growth was well reflected\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ein the maturity of the Wailers' music.Bob's first recording attempts came \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eat the beginning of the Sixties. His first two tunes, cut as a solo artist, \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003emeant nothing in commercial terms and it wasn't until 1964, as a \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003efounding member of a group called the Wailing Wailers, that Bob first hit\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ethe Jamaican charts. The record was \"Simmer Down,\" and over the next\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003efew years the Wailing Wailers Bob, Peter Mclntosh and Bunny Livingston,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ethe nucleus of the group put out some 30 sides that properly established\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ethem as one of the hottest groups in Jamaica. Mclntosh later shortened \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ehis surname to Tosh while Livingston is now called Bunny Wailer. Despite \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003etheir popularity, the economics of keeping the group together proved too\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003emuch and the two other members, Junior Braithwaite and Beverley Kelso,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eleft the group. At the same time Bob joined his mother in the United States.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis marked the end of the Wailing Wailers, Chapter One. Marley's stay\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ein America was short-lived, however, and he returned to Jamaicato join\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eup again with Peter and Bunny. By the end of the Sixties, with the legen-\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003edary reggae producer Lee \"Scratch\" Perry at the mixing desk, The \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWailers were again back at the top in Jamaica. The combination of the\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWailers and Perry resulted in some of the finest music the band ever \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003emade. Tracks like \"Soul Rebel, \" \"Duppy Conquer,\"  \"400 Years,\" and \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Small Axe\" were not only classics, but they defined the future direction\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eof reggae. It's difficult to properly understand Bob Marley's music without\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003econsidering Rastafari. His spiritual beliefs are too well known to\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003enecessitate further explanation. It must be stated, however, that \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eRastafari is at the very core of the Wailers' music. In 1970 Aston \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFamilyman Barrett and his brother Carlton (bass and drums, respectively) \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ejoined the Wailers. They came to the band unchallenged as Jamaica's \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHARDESTrhythm section; a reputation that was to remain undiminished\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eduring the following decade. Meanwhile, the band's own reputation was,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eat the start of the Seventies, an extraordinary one throughout the Carib-\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ebean. However,the band was still unknown internationally. That was to \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003echange in 1972 whenthe Wailers signed to Island Records. It was a\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003erevolutionary move for an international record company and a reggae\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eband. For the first time a reggae band had access to the best recording\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003efacilities and were treated in the same way as a rock group. Before the \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWailers signed to Island,it was considered that reggae sold only on \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003esingles and cheap compilation albums. The Wailer's first album, Catch\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA Fire broke all the rules: it was beautifully packaged and heavily\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003epromoted. And it was the start of a long climb to international fame \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eand recognition. The Catch A Fire album was followed a year later by \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBurnin', an LP that included some of the band's older songs, such as \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Duppy Conquerer,\" \"Small Axe,\" and \"Put In On,\" together with tracks\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003elike \"Get Up Stand Up\" and \"I Shot The Sheriff\" (which was also recorded\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eby Eric Clapton, who had a #1 hit with it in America). In 1975 Bob Marley\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026amp; The Wailers released the extraordinary Natty Dread album, and toured\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEurope that summer. The shows were recorded and the subsequent live\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ealbum, together with the single, \"No Woman No Cry,\" both made the UK\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003echarts. By that time Bunny and Peter had officially left the band to pursue\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003etheir own solo careers. Rastaman Vibration, the follow-up album in 1976,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ecracked the American charts. It was, for many, the clearest exposition yet\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eof Marley's music and beliefs, including such tracks as \"Crazy Baldhead,\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Johnny Was,\" \"Who The Cap Fit\" and, perhaps most significantly of all,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"War,\" the Iyrics of which were taken from a speech by Emperor Haile\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSelassie. In 1977 Exodus was released, which established Marley's\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003einternational superstar status. It remained on the British charts for 56\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003estraight weeks, and netted three UK hit singles, \"Exodus,\" \"Waiting In \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eVain,\" and \"Jamming.\" In 1978 the band released Kaya, which hit \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003enumber four on the UK chart the week of its release. That album\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003esaw Marley in a different mood -- Kaya was an album of love songs,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eand, of course, homages to the power of ganja. There were two more\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eevents in 1978, both of which were of extraordinary significance to \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMarley. In April that year he returned to Jamaica (he had left in 1976 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eafter the shooting that had almost cost him his life), to play the One \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLove Peace Concert in front of the Prime Minister Michael Manley, and\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ethe then Leader of the Opposition \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEdward Seaga. And at the end of the year he visited Africa for the first time,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003egoing initially to Kenya and then on to Ethiopia, spiritual home of Rastafari.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMarley returned to  Africa in 1980 at the official initation of the Government \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eof Zimbabwe to play at that country's Independence Ceremony. It was the \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003egreatest honor afforded the band, and one which underlined the Wailers' \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eimportance in the Third World. In 1979 the Survival LP was released. A\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEuropean tour came the following year: the band broke festival records\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ethroughout the continent, includinga 100,000 capacity show in Milan. Bob\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMarley \u0026amp; the Wailers were now the most important band on the road that\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eyear and the new Uprising album hit every chart in Europe. It was a period\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eof maximum optimism and plans were being made for an American tour, an\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eopening slot with Stevie Wonder for the following winter. At the end of the \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEuropean tour, Bob Marley \u0026amp; The Wailers went to America. Bob played two\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eshows at Madison Square Garden but, immediately after wards he was \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eseriously ill. Cancer was diagnosed. Marley fought the disease for eight\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003emonths. The battle, however, proved to be too much. He died in a Miami \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHospital on May 11,1981. A month before the end Bob was awarded \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJamaica's Order of Merit, the nations' third highest honor, in recognition \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eof his outstanding contribution to the country's culture.  On Thursday, May\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e23,1981, the Honorable Robert Nesta Marley was given an official funeral \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eby the people of Jamaica. Following the funeral -- attended by both the Prime\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMinister and the Leader of the Opposition -- Bob's body was taken to his \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ebirthplace where it now rests in a mausoleum. Bob Marley was 36 years old.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHis legend lives on.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":97333,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50644242,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $15.00","offer_id":1473042,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1056_Bob_Marley_2009.jpg?v=1571438527"},{"product_id":"john-coltrane-1057","title":"John Coltrane #1057","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e“All a musician can do is to get\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ecloser to the sources of nature, \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eand so feel that he is in \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ecommunion with the natural laws.” \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Although recordings of his work from as early as 1946 exist, Coltrane's recording career did not begin in earnest until 1955. From 1957 onward he recorded and produced dozens of albums, many of them not released until years after his death. A hugely influential jazz musician, Coltrane has been credited with reshaping modern jazz and with being the predominant influence on successive generations of saxophonists. Along with tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Sonny Rollins, Coltrane fundamentally altered expectations for the instrument.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":97335,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50645442,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1476422,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1057_John_Coltrane_2009.jpg?v=1571438527"},{"product_id":"bob-marley-1070","title":"Bob Marley #1070","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e  Emancipate\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eyourself from mental slavery,\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e none but ourselves can free our mind...\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n \n\u003cp\u003eBob Marley's career stretched back over twenty years. During that time Marley's growing style encompassed every aspect in the rise of Jamaican music, from ska to contemporary reggae. That growth was well reflected in the maturity of the Wailers' music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBob's first recording attempts came at the beginning of the Sixties. His first two tunes, cut as a solo artist, meant nothing in commercial terms and it wasn't until 1964, as a founding member of a group called the Wailing Wailers, that Bob first hit the Jamaican charts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe record was \"Simmer Down,\" and over the next few years the Wailing Wailers -- Bob, Peter Mclntosh and Bunny Livingston, the nucleus of the group -- put out some 30 sides that properly established them as one of the hottest groups in Jamaica. Mclntosh later shortened his surname to Tosh while Livingston is now called Bunny Wailer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite their popularity, the economics of keeping the group together proved too much and the two other members, Junior Braithwaite and Beverley Kelso, left the group. At the same time Bob joined his mother in the United States. This marked the end of the Wailing Wailers, Chapter One.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarley's stay in America was short-lived, however, and he returned to Jamaica to join up again with Peter and Bunny. By the end of the Sixties, with the legendary reggae producer Lee \"Scratch\" Perry at the mixing desk, The Wailers were again back at the top in Jamaica. The combination of the Wailers and Perry resulted in some of the finest music the band ever made. Tracks like \"Soul Rebel,\" \"Duppy Conquerer,\" \"400 Years,\" and \"Small Axe\" were not only classics, but they defined the future direction of reggae.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's difficult to properly understand Bob Marley's music without considering Rastafari. His spiritual beliefs are too well known to necessitate further explanation. It must be stated, however, that Rastafari is at the very core of the Wailers' music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1970 Aston Familyman Barrett and his brother Carlton (bass and drums, respectively) joined the Wailers. They came to the band unchallenged as Jamaica's \u003cb\u003eHARDEST\u003c\/b\u003e rhythm section; a reputation that was to remain undiminished during the following decade. Meanwhile, the band's own reputation was, at the start of the Seventies, an extraordinary one throughout the Caribbean. However, the band was still unknown internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was to change in 1972 when the Wailers signed to Island Records. It was a revolutionary move for an international record company and a reggae band. For the first time a reggae band had access to the best recording facilities and were treated in the same way as a rock group. Before the Wailers signed to Island, it was considered that reggae sold only on singles and cheap compilation albums. The Wailer's first album, \u003cb\u003eCatch A Fire\u003c\/b\u003e broke all the rules: it was beautifully packaged and heavily promoted. And it was the start of a long climb to international fame and recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eCatch A Fire\u003c\/b\u003e album was followed a year later by \u003cb\u003eBurnin'\u003c\/b\u003e, an LP that included some of the band's older songs, such as \"Duppy Conquerer,\" \"Small Axe,\" and \"Put In On,\" together with tracks like \"Get Up Stand Up\" and \"I Shot The Sheriff\" (which was also recorded by Eric Clapton, who had a #1 hit with it in America).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1975 Bob Marley \u0026amp; The Wailers released the extraordinary \u003cb\u003eNatty Dread\u003c\/b\u003e album, and toured Europe that summer. The shows were recorded and the subsequent live album, together with the single, \"No Woman No Cry,\" both made the UK charts. By that time Bunny and Peter had officially left the band to pursue their own solo careers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRastaman Vibration\u003c\/b\u003e, the follow-up album in 1976, cracked the American charts. It was, for many, the clearest exposition yet of Marley's music and beliefs, including such tracks as \"Crazy Baldhead,\" \"Johnny Was,\" \"Who The Cap Fit\" and, perhaps most significantly of all, \"War,\" the Iyrics of which were taken from a speech by Emperor Haile Selassie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1977 Exodus was released, which established Marley's international superstar status. It remained on the British charts for 56 straight weeks, and netted three UK hit singles, \"Exodus,\" \"Waiting In Vain,\" and \"Jamming.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1978 the band released \u003cb\u003eKaya\u003c\/b\u003e, which hit number four on the UK chart the week of its release. That album saw Marley in a different mood -- \u003cb\u003eKaya\u003c\/b\u003e was an album of love songs, and, of course, homages to the power of ganja.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere were two more events in 1978, both of which were of extraordinary significance to Marley. In April that year he returned to Jamaica (he had left in 1976 after the shooting that had almost cost him his life), to play the One Love Peace Concert in front of the Prime Minister Michael Manley, and the then Leader of the Opposition Edward Seaga. And at the end of the year he visited Africa for the first time, going initially to Kenya and then on to Ethiopia, spiritual home of Rastafari.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarley returned to Africa in 1980 at the official initation of the Government of Zimbabwe to play at that country's Independence Ceremony. It was the greatest honor afforded the band, and one which underlined the Wailers' importance in the Third World.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1979 the \u003cb\u003eSurvival\u003c\/b\u003e LP was released. A European tour came the following year: the band broke festival records throughout the continent, including a 100,000 capacity show in Milan. Bob Marley \u0026amp; the Wailers were now the most important band on the road that year and the new \u003cb\u003eUprising\u003c\/b\u003e album hit every chart in Europe. It was a period of maximum optimism and plans were being made for an American tour, an opening slot with Stevie Wonder for the following winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the European tour, Bob Marley \u0026amp; The Wailers went to America. Bob played two shows at Madison Square Garden but, immediately afterwards he was seriously ill. Cancer was diagnosed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarley fought the disease for eight months. The battle, however, proved to be too much. He died in a Miami Hospital on May 11,1981.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA month before the end Bob was awarded Jamaica's Order of Merit, the nations' third highest honor, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the country's culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Thursday, May 23,1981, the Honorable Robert Nesta Marley was given an official funeral by the people of Jamaica. Following the funeral -- attended by both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition -- Bob's body was taken to his birthplace where it now rests in a mausoleum. Bob Marley was 36 years old. His legend lives on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":97368,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50644212,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1473062,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1070_Bob_Marley_2009.jpg?v=1571438527"},{"product_id":"the-wall-of-legends-1075","title":"The Wall of Legends #1075","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\" Know whence you came from,\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e If you know whence you came from, \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e there is really no limitations\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e to where you can go.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded in poster:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Baldwin, Tuskegee Airman, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Henry O. 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I'm not cute or built to suit a fasion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips, I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, That's me. I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me, A hive of honey bees. I say, It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them They say they still can't see. I say, It's in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Now you understand Just why my head's not bowed. I don't shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing It ought to make you proud. I say, It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaya Angelou. _Included in this poster:_ Bessie Coleman, Bessie Smith, Harriet Tubman, Billie Holiday, Angela Davis, Madame C. J. Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Wilma Rudolph, Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Althea Gibson, Shirley Chisholm, Oprah Winfrey, and Maya Angelou.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 7.00","offer_id":97383,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50649452,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1478652,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1078_Phenomenal_Woman.jpg?v=1571438527"},{"product_id":"miles-davis-1080","title":"Miles Davis #1080","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\" Do not fear mistakes. \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e There are none.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eMiles Davis \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiles Dewey Davis III (May 25, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most distinguished jazz musicians of the latter half of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s. He played on some early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. He was partially responsible for the development of modal jazz, and jazz fusion arose from his work with other musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Free jazz was the only post-war jazz style not significantly influenced by Davis, although some musicians from his bands later pursued this style. His recordings, along with the live performances of his many influential bands, were vital in jazz's acceptance as music with lasting artistic value. A popularizer as well as an innovator, Davis became famous for his languid, melodic style and his laconic, and at times confrontational, personality. As an increasingly well-paid and fashionably-dressed jazz musician, Davis was also a symbol of jazz music's commercial potential. Davis was late in a line of jazz trumpeters that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe \"King\" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie. He has been compared to Duke Ellington as a musical innovator: both were skillful players on their instruments, but were not considered technical virtuosos. Ellington's main strength was as a composer and leader of a large band, while Davis had a talent for drawing together talented musicians in small groups and allowing them space to develop. Many of the major figures in post-war jazz played in one of Davis's groups at some point in their career. Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006. He has also been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame, and the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. There are plans to make a biopic about Davis starring Don Cheadle \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 7.00","offer_id":97388,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50649742,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1477332,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1080_Miles_Davis.jpg?v=1571438527"},{"product_id":"jimi-hendrix-1081","title":"Jimi Hendrix #1081","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003eJimi Hendrix\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003e\n\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003e\u0026nbsp;\n“ I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003e\nto die, so let me live my life the way I want to.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942, Seattle, Washington - September 18, 1970, London), born Johnny Allen Hendrix and later renamed James Marshall Hendrix, was a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Hendrix is recognized as one of the most influential guitar players in rock music history. He achieved worldwide fame in 1967, playing at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival before his death in 1970, at the age of 27. A self-taught musician, Hendrix played a right-handed Fender Stratocaster guitar turned upside down and re-strung so that the strings were right-side up. Hendrix pioneered the technique of guitar feedback with overdriven amplifiers, incorporating what was previously an undesirable sound into his music. He built upon the innovations and influences of blues stylists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Buddy Guy, and derived style from rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, and Cornell Dupree, as well as from traditional jazz. Hendrix's flamboyant stage persona was inspired by rock pioneer Little Richard, having toured in Richard's back-up band \"The Upsetters\". Hendrix strove to combine what he called \"earth\", a blues, jazz, or funk driven rhythm accompaniment, with \"space\", the high-pitched psychedelic sounds created by his guitar improvisations. As a record producer, Hendrix also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas; he was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic and phasing effects during the recording process. Hendrix was inducted into the Rock \u0026amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6627 Hollywood Blvd.) was dedicated in 1994. In 2006, his debut album, Are You Experienced, was inducted into the United States National Recording Preservation Board's National Recording Registry. Rolling Stone named Hendrix number one on their list of the \"100 greatest guitarists of all time\" in 2003 and ranked him #6 in their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004. He was also ranked number three in VH1's \"100 Greatest Hard Rock Artists.\" .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n  \u003cdiv\u003e\n    \u003cdiv style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003ch3 style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr \/\u003e\n    Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr \/\u003e\n    \u003cbr \/\u003e\n    For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr \/\u003e\n    please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $8.00","offer_id":97390,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50649782,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1476352,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1081_jimi_Hendrix_2009.jpg?v=1571438528"},{"product_id":"billie-holiday-1083","title":"Billie Holiday #1083","description":"\u003cp\u003e Caption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\" Somebody once said we never know what is\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eenough until we know what's more than enough.\" \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n \n\u003cp\u003e Holiday had a difficult childhood which greatly affected her life and career. Much of her childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by her autobiography, published in 1956. This account is known to contain many inaccuracies. Her professional pseudonym was taken from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and Clarence Holiday, her probable father. At the outset of her career, she spelled her last name \"Halliday,\" presumably to distance herself from her neglectful father, but eventually changed it back to \"Holiday.\" Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner. Allegedly, her mother was only 13 at the time of Holiday's birth in Philadelphia and had moved there in order to hide her out-of-wedlock pregnancy; the 1900 census lists Holiday's mother's birth year as 1896, which would make her 19 when her daughter was born. Clarence Holiday, 16 years old at the time, was a banjo player who would later play for Fletcher Henderson. (There is some controversy regarding Holiday's paternity, stemming from a copy of her birth certificate in the Baltimore archives that lists the father as a \"Frank DeViese.\" Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker — see Donald Clarke, Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon, ISBN 0-306-81136-7.) In the rare times she did see him, she would shake him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that he had a daughter. She grew up in the poor section of Baltimore, Maryland, near the projects. According to her autobiography, her house was the first on their street to have electricity. Her parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. At the age of 10, she reported having been raped. That claim, combined with her frequent truancy, resulted in her being sent to The House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic reform school, in 1925. It was only through the assistance of a family friend that she was released two years later [1]. Scarred by these experiences, Holiday moved to New York with her mother in 1928. In 1929, Sadie discovered a neighbor, Wilbert Rich, in the act of raping her daughter; Rich was sentenced to three months in jail. Sadie later remarried and abandoned Billie, who from then on was raised by a woman she called Grandma, Martha Miller. Sadie died on October 6, 1945. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":97395,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50649952,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 25.00","offer_id":1472872,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1083_BILLIE_HOLIDAY_2009.jpg?v=1571438528"},{"product_id":"ray-charles-1085","title":"Ray Charles #1085","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eworld to do. But to hold it together when everyone else\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ewould understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.” \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRay Charles died from acute liver disease Thursday June 10, 2004. He was 73. He left behind a long list of hits and Grammy awards and the musicians he influenced are as diverse in genre as the music he wrote, arranged, performed and recorded. The great Ray Charles was an explorer who returned time and again from expeditions across musical boundaries to give us, in his own unique way, melodious stories and charts of his adventures. In so doing he changed what had previously been only a black and white territorial paper map of American music into a 3-D, solid terrain model, full of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRay Charles Robinson was born Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Ga. His father, Bailey Robinson, was a mechanic and a handyman, and his mother, Aretha, stacked boards in a sawmill. His family moved to Greenville, Fla., when Charles was an infant. Young Ray grew up during the Great Depression, a period when there was almost no such thing as financial gain for anyone and particularly a black family living in the totally segregated South. \u003c\/p\u003e\nCharles recalled how poor his family was in his 1978 autobiography, \"Brother Ray\": \"Even compared to other blacks...we were on the bottom of the ladder looking up at everyone else. Nothing below us except the ground.''\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough it was a poor existence, and his father was \"hardly ever around\", he described himself as a \"happy kid\". The tragedy and painful memories of the next several years however would change him forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt just five years old Charles had to endure the trauma of witnessing the drowning death of his younger brother in his mother's large portable laundry tub. Soon after the death of his brother he gradually began to lose his sight and by 7 years of age Ray Charles was blind. Although it is presumed that untreated glaucoma was the cause, no official diagnosis was ever made. His mother refused to let him wallow in self-pity however and since the sight loss was gradual, she began to work with him on how to find things and do things for himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRay had shown an interest in music since the age of 3, encouraged by a cafe owner who played the piano. At 7, he became a charity student at the state-supported school for the deaf and blind in St. Augustine, Fla. Although he was heartbroken to be leaving home, it was at school where he received a formal musical education and learned to read, write and arrange music in Braille; score for big bands; and play piano, organ, sax, clarinet, and trumpet. His influences were the popular stars of the day like big band clarinetist Artie Shaw, big band leaders and pianists Duke Ellington and Count Basie, jazz piano giant Art Tatum, alto sax man and witty vocalist and bandleader Louis Jordan, and the great classical composers like Chopin and Sibelius. But Ray Charles loved it all. At night he listened on the radio to the raw melodies and hillbilly twang of the Grand Ole Opry, to the sanctified soulfulness of gospel, and to the secular emotional venting of the blues. Then at 15 his mother died and Charles, who said he never used a cane or guide dog or begged for money, left school and began touring the South on the so-called chitlin' circuit with a number of dance bands that played in black dance halls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the South in 1945 the opportunities and outlook for any young black musician, just getting started and hoping for a career in music, would have been bleak. Add Mr. Charles' loss of site and new found love for heroin (a habit he did not kick for nearly 20 years) and one would think the situation to be nearly hopeless. But Charles would not be denied and rather than give up, he made a significant geographical relocation to Seattle, Washington. It was in Seattle's red light district at just 16 were he met a young Quincy Jones only 14 himself. He taught the future producer and composer how to write music and arrange. It was a friendship that lasted a lifetime with the two working on many sessions together later in their careers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":97399,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50650222,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1478682,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1085_Ray_Charles_2009.jpg?v=1571438528"},{"product_id":"ray-charles-1086","title":"Ray Charles #1086","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster:_\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\" Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIf there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ethat won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003esing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003euntil I get where I want it.\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Ray Charles died from acute liver disease Thursday June 10, 2004. He was 73. He left behind a long list of hits and Grammy awards and the musicians he influenced are as diverse in genre as the music he wrote, arranged, performed and recorded. The great Ray Charles was an explorer who returned time and again from expeditions across musical boundaries to give us, in his own unique way, melodious stories and charts of his adventures. In so doing he changed what had previously been only a black and white territorial paper map of American music into a 3-D, solid terrain model, full of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRay Charles Robinson was born Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Ga. His father, Bailey Robinson, was a mechanic and a handyman, and his mother, Aretha, stacked boards in a sawmill. His family moved to Greenville, Fla., when Charles was an infant. Young Ray grew up during the Great Depression, a period when there was almost no such thing as financial gain for anyone and particularly a black family living in the totally segregated South. \u003c\/p\u003e\nCharles recalled how poor his family was in his 1978 autobiography, \"Brother Ray\": \"Even compared to other blacks...we were on the bottom of the ladder looking up at everyone else. Nothing below us except the ground.''\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough it was a poor existence, and his father was \"hardly ever around\", he described himself as a \"happy kid\". The tragedy and painful memories of the next several years however would change him forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt just five years old Charles had to endure the trauma of witnessing the drowning death of his younger brother in his mother's large portable laundry tub. Soon after the death of his brother he gradually began to lose his sight and by 7 years of age Ray Charles was blind. Although it is presumed that untreated glaucoma was the cause, no official diagnosis was ever made. His mother refused to let him wallow in self-pity however and since the sight loss was gradual, she began to work with him on how to find things and do things for himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRay had shown an interest in music since the age of 3, encouraged by a cafe owner who played the piano. At 7, he became a charity student at the state-supported school for the deaf and blind in St. Augustine, Fla. Although he was heartbroken to be leaving home, it was at school where he received a formal musical education and learned to read, write and arrange music in Braille; score for big bands; and play piano, organ, sax, clarinet, and trumpet. His influences were the popular stars of the day like big band clarinetist Artie Shaw, big band leaders and pianists Duke Ellington and Count Basie, jazz piano giant Art Tatum, alto sax man and witty vocalist and bandleader Louis Jordan, and the great classical composers like Chopin and Sibelius. But Ray Charles loved it all. At night he listened on the radio to the raw melodies and hillbilly twang of the Grand Ole Opry, to the sanctified soulfulness of gospel, and to the secular emotional venting of the blues. Then at 15 his mother died and Charles, who said he never used a cane or guide dog or begged for money, left school and began touring the South on the so-called chitlin' circuit with a number of dance bands that played in black dance halls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the South in 1945 the opportunities and outlook for any young black musician, just getting started and hoping for a career in music, would have been bleak. Add Mr. Charles' loss of site and new found love for heroin (a habit he did not kick for nearly 20 years) and one would think the situation to be nearly hopeless. But Charles would not be denied and rather than give up, he made a significant geographical relocation to Seattle, Washington. It was in Seattle's red light district at just 16 were he met a young Quincy Jones only 14 himself. He taught the future producer and composer how to write music and arrange. It was a friendship that lasted a lifetime with the two working on many sessions together later in their careers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":97401,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50650252,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1478692,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1086_Ray_Charles_2009.jpg?v=1571438528"},{"product_id":"ray-charles-1088","title":"Ray Charles #1088","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\" I never wanted to be famous. \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eI only wanted to be great.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRay Charles died from acute liver disease Thursday June 10, 2004. He was 73. He left behind a long list of hits and Grammy awards and the musicians he influenced are as diverse in genre as the music he wrote, arranged, performed and recorded. The great Ray Charles was an explorer who returned time and again from expeditions across musical boundaries to give us, in his own unique way, melodious stories and charts of his adventures. In so doing he changed what had previously been only a black and white territorial paper map of American music into a 3-D, solid terrain model, full of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRay Charles Robinson was born Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Ga. His father, Bailey Robinson, was a mechanic and a handyman, and his mother, Aretha, stacked boards in a sawmill. His family moved to Greenville, Fla., when Charles was an infant. Young Ray grew up during the Great Depression, a period when there was almost no such thing as financial gain for anyone and particularly a black family living in the totally segregated South. \u003c\/p\u003e\nCharles recalled how poor his family was in his 1978 autobiography, \"Brother Ray\": \"Even compared to other blacks...we were on the bottom of the ladder looking up at everyone else. Nothing below us except the ground.''\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough it was a poor existence, and his father was \"hardly ever around\", he described himself as a \"happy kid\". The tragedy and painful memories of the next several years however would change him forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt just five years old Charles had to endure the trauma of witnessing the drowning death of his younger brother in his mother's large portable laundry tub. Soon after the death of his brother he gradually began to lose his sight and by 7 years of age Ray Charles was blind. Although it is presumed that untreated glaucoma was the cause, no official diagnosis was ever made. His mother refused to let him wallow in self-pity however and since the sight loss was gradual, she began to work with him on how to find things and do things for himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRay had shown an interest in music since the age of 3, encouraged by a cafe owner who played the piano. At 7, he became a charity student at the state-supported school for the deaf and blind in St. Augustine, Fla. Although he was heartbroken to be leaving home, it was at school where he received a formal musical education and learned to read, write and arrange music in Braille; score for big bands; and play piano, organ, sax, clarinet, and trumpet. His influences were the popular stars of the day like big band clarinetist Artie Shaw, big band leaders and pianists Duke Ellington and Count Basie, jazz piano giant Art Tatum, alto sax man and witty vocalist and bandleader Louis Jordan, and the great classical composers like Chopin and Sibelius. But Ray Charles loved it all. At night he listened on the radio to the raw melodies and hillbilly twang of the Grand Ole Opry, to the sanctified soulfulness of gospel, and to the secular emotional venting of the blues. Then at 15 his mother died and Charles, who said he never used a cane or guide dog or begged for money, left school and began touring the South on the so-called chitlin' circuit with a number of dance bands that played in black dance halls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the South in 1945 the opportunities and outlook for any young black musician, just getting started and hoping for a career in music, would have been bleak. Add Mr. Charles' loss of site and new found love for heroin (a habit he did not kick for nearly 20 years) and one would think the situation to be nearly hopeless. But Charles would not be denied and rather than give up, he made a significant geographical relocation to Seattle, Washington. It was in Seattle's red light district at just 16 were he met a young Quincy Jones only 14 himself. He taught the future producer and composer how to write music and arrange. It was a friendship that lasted a lifetime with the two working on many sessions together later in their careers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":97405,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames 25.00","offer_id":50650312,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1478712,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1088_Ray_Charles_2009.jpg?v=1571438528"},{"product_id":"jim-brown-1090","title":"Jim Brown #1090","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\" That Jim Brown says he isn't Superman. \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e What he really means is Superman\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e isn't Jim Brown! \"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Nathaniel \"Jake\" Brown (born February 17, 1936) is a retired American professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor and social activist. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. He is universally acclaimed as one of the best running backs of all time, and in 2002 was named by The Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever. Sportswriter Bert Randolph Sugar named Brown #1 in his book The Greatest Athletes of All Time. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $8.00","offer_id":97409,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50650712,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $25.00","offer_id":1476332,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1090Jim_Brown_2009.jpg?v=1571438528"},{"product_id":"billie-holiday-1091","title":"Billie Holiday #1091","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\" Most of the...white people \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e who came to Harlem those nights\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e were looking for atmosphere,\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e Damn few of them brought any along.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoliday had a difficult childhood which greatly affected her life and career. Much of her childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by her autobiography, published in 1956. This account is known to contain many inaccuracies. Her professional pseudonym was taken from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and Clarence Holiday, her probable father. At the outset of her career, she spelled her last name \"Halliday,\" presumably to distance herself from her neglectful father, but eventually changed it back to \"Holiday.\" Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner. Allegedly, her mother was only 13 at the time of Holiday's birth in Philadelphia and had moved there in order to hide her out-of-wedlock pregnancy; the 1900 census lists Holiday's mother's birth year as 1896, which would make her 19 when her daughter was born. Clarence Holiday, 16 years old at the time, was a banjo player who would later play for Fletcher Henderson. (There is some controversy regarding Holiday's paternity, stemming from a copy of her birth certificate in the Baltimore archives that lists the father as a \"Frank DeViese.\" Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker — see Donald Clarke, Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon, ISBN 0-306-81136-7.) In the rare times she did see him, she would shake him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that he had a daughter. She grew up in the poor section of Baltimore, Maryland, near the projects. According to her autobiography, her house was the first on their street to have electricity. Her parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. At the age of 10, she reported having been raped. That claim, combined with her frequent truancy, resulted in her being sent to The House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic reform school, in 1925. It was only through the assistance of a family friend that she was released two years later [1]. Scarred by these experiences, Holiday moved to New York with her mother in 1928. In 1929, Sadie discovered a neighbor, Wilbert Rich, in the act of raping her daughter; Rich was sentenced to three months in jail. Sadie later remarried and abandoned Billie, who from then on was raised by a woman she called Grandma, Martha Miller. Sadie died on October 6, 1945. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e \u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":97411,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50650832,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1472882,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1091_BILLIE_HOLIDAY_2009.jpg?v=1571438528"},{"product_id":"john-coltrane-1096","title":"John Coltrane #1096","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e John Coltrane\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Although recordings of his work from as early as 1946 exist, Coltrane's recording career did not begin in earnest until 1955. From 1957 onward he recorded and produced dozens of albums, many of them not released until years after his death. A hugely influential jazz musician, Coltrane has been credited with reshaping modern jazz and with being the predominant influence on successive generations of saxophonists. Along with tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Sonny Rollins, Coltrane fundamentally altered expectations for the instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":97419,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50654462,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1476432,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1096_John_Coltrane_2009.jpg?v=1571438528"},{"product_id":"duke-ellington-1099","title":"Duke  Ellington #1099","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster:_\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\" A Goal is dream\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e with a finish line.\"\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdward Kennedy \"Duke\" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974), (see Jazz royalty), was an American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader. One of the most influential figures in jazz history, Ellington was one of America's most significant twentieth century composers. He led his own orchestra for fifty years and composed more than 2000 songs as well as numerous longer compositions. While most of his compositions are categorized as jazz, Ellington was reluctant to describe his work as anything more specific than \"American music\". The word jazz was too narrow for Ellington, whose greatest compliment was to describe others who had impressed him as \"beyond category\". Some of the biggest names in jazz passed through the ranks of Duke Ellington's orchestra, among them Johnny Hodges, Bubber Miley, Joe \"Tricky Sam\" Nanton, Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Cootie Williams, Harry Carney, Juan Tizol, Sonny Greer, Otto Hardwick, Clark Terry, Jimmy Blanton, Lawrence Brown, Louie Bellson, Ray Nance, Billy Strayhorn, Paul Gonsalves, Wellman Braud, and William \"Cat\" Anderson. Many of these musicians played in Ellington's orchestra for decades, and while many were noteworthy in their own right, it was Ellington's musical genius that melded them into one of the most well-known orchestral units in the history of jazz. His compositions were often written specifically for the style and skills of these individuals, such as \"Jeep's Blues\" for Johnny Hodges, \"Concerto for Cootie\"(Do nothing Till You Hear From Me) for Cootie Williams and \"The Mooche\" for Tricky Sam Nanton. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's \"Caravan\" and \"Perdido\", which brought the \"Spanish Tinge\" to big-band jazz. Ellington was one of the twentieth century's best-known African-American celebrities. He recorded for many American record companies, and appeared in several films. Ellington and his orchestra toured the United States and Europe regularly before and after World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 10.00","offer_id":97424,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50656612,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1474232,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1099_Duke_Ellington_2009.jpg?v=1571438528"},{"product_id":"miles-davis-1100","title":"Miles Davis #1100","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e Miles Davis\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Miles Dewey Davis III (May 25, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most distinguished jazz musicians of the latter half of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s. He played on some early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. He was partially responsible for the development of modal jazz, and jazz fusion arose from his work with other musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Free jazz was the only post-war jazz style not significantly influenced by Davis, although some musicians from his bands later pursued this style. His recordings, along with the live performances of his many influential bands, were vital in jazz's acceptance as music with lasting artistic value. A popularizer as well as an innovator, Davis became famous for his languid, melodic style and his laconic, and at times confrontational, personality. As an increasingly well-paid and fashionably-dressed jazz musician, Davis was also a symbol of jazz music's commercial potential. Davis was late in a line of jazz trumpeters that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe \"King\" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie. He has been compared to Duke Ellington as a musical innovator: both were skillful players on their instruments, but were not considered technical virtuosos. Ellington's main strength was as a composer and leader of a large band, while Davis had a talent for drawing together talented musicians in small groups and allowing them space to develop. Many of the major figures in post-war jazz played in one of Davis's groups at some point in their career. Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006. He has also been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame, and the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. There are plans to make a biopic about Davis starring Don Cheadle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 7.00","offer_id":97426,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50656732,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1477342,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1100_Miles_Davis_2009.jpg?v=1571438528"},{"product_id":"billie-holiday-1102","title":"Billie Holiday #1102","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e“ If I don’t have friends\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e then I ain’t got noting.”\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoliday had a difficult childhood which greatly affected her life and career. Much of her childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by her autobiography, published in 1956. This account is known to contain many inaccuracies. Her professional pseudonym was taken from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and Clarence Holiday, her probable father. At the outset of her career, she spelled her last name \"Halliday,\" presumably to distance herself from her neglectful father, but eventually changed it back to \"Holiday.\" Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner. Allegedly, her mother was only 13 at the time of Holiday's birth in Philadelphia and had moved there in order to hide her out-of-wedlock pregnancy; the 1900 census lists Holiday's mother's birth year as 1896, which would make her 19 when her daughter was born. Clarence Holiday, 16 years old at the time, was a banjo player who would later play for Fletcher Henderson. (There is some controversy regarding Holiday's paternity, stemming from a copy of her birth certificate in the Baltimore archives that lists the father as a \"Frank DeViese.\" Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker — see Donald Clarke, Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon, ISBN 0-306-81136-7.) In the rare times she did see him, she would shake him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that he had a daughter. She grew up in the poor section of Baltimore, Maryland, near the projects. According to her autobiography, her house was the first on their street to have electricity. Her parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. At the age of 10, she reported having been raped. That claim, combined with her frequent truancy, resulted in her being sent to The House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic reform school, in 1925. It was only through the assistance of a family friend that she was released two years later [1]. Scarred by these experiences, Holiday moved to New York with her mother in 1928. In 1929, Sadie discovered a neighbor, Wilbert Rich, in the act of raping her daughter; Rich was sentenced to three months in jail. Sadie later remarried and abandoned Billie, who from then on was raised by a woman she called Grandma, Martha Miller. Sadie died on October 6, 1945.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11 x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":97430,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Picture Frame with Glass, 11\" x 17\" $ 25.00","offer_id":49708112,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 15.00","offer_id":1472892,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1102_BILLIE_HOLIDAY_2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"dizzy-gillespie-1104","title":"Dizzy Gillespie #1104 Dizzy Gillespie #1104","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e Dizzy Gillespie\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. He was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. In addition to featuring in these epochal moments in jazz, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz, the modern jazz version of the \"Spanish Tinge\". Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. In addition to his instrumental skills, Dizzy's beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop, which was originally regarded as threatening and frightening music by many listeners raised on older styles of jazz. He had an enormous impact on virtually every subsequent trumpeter, both by the example of his playing and as a mentor to younger musicians. He also used a trumpet whose bell was bent at a 45 degree angle rather than a traditional straight trumpet. 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Pryor was a gifted storyteller known for unflinching examinations of race and custom in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful language, vulgarities, as well as such racial epithets as \"nigger,\" \"honky\" and \"cracker.\" He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations, although public opinion of his act was often divided. He is commonly regarded as the most important stand up comedian of his time: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor \"The Picasso of our profession.\"; Whoopi Goldberg cited him as her biggest influence, stating \"The major influence was Richard - I want to say those things he's saying.\"\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":97440,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50666152,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 15.00","offer_id":1478752,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1106_Richard_Pryor_2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"james-brown-1113","title":"James Brown #1113","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e “ Remember James Brown,\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e he opened the door for all of us”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Say it Loud,\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e I’m Black And I’m Proud\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Singer James Brown was a founding inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and one of the most influential popular musicians of the 20th century. He came out of poverty and prison to record hit singles like \"Night Train\" (1962), \"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag\" and \"I Got You (I Feel Good)\" (both 1965), \"Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud\" (1968), and \"Get on the Good Foot\" (1972). His inventive mix of gospel, R\u0026amp;B and primal rock and roll is credited with bringing funk to popular music, and with breaking ground not only for funk and soul but for disco music and rap as well. His personal life was equally notorious; he was arrested and jailed several times for misuse of drugs, alcohol, guns and vehicles and for domestic disputes with his four wives. Despite all that, Brown toured relentlessly throughout his life, and his sweaty, energetic, hard-dancing performances earned him the nickname of \"The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.\" He was inducted into the Rock Hall in 1986 (along with other founding members like \u003ca class=\"ilnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/chuck-berry\" target=\"_top\"\u003eChuck Berry\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca class=\"ilnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/elvis-presley\" target=\"_top\"\u003eElvis Presley\u003c\/a\u003e) and was awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to the Rock Hall of Fame, Brown's nicknames include \"'Soul Brother Number One,' 'the Godfather of Soul,' 'the Hardest Working Man in Show Business,' 'Mr. Dynamite' and even 'the Original Disco Man'\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":97451,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frame $25.00","offer_id":50711492,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 15.00","offer_id":1476282,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1113_James_Brown_2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"charlie-parker-1114","title":"Charlie Parker #1114","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\" Birdland \"\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e Charlie Parker \u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThe only child of Charles and Addie Parker, Charlie Parker \u003cbr\u003e was one of the most important and influential saxophonists \u003cbr\u003e and jazz players of the 1940’s.  When Parker was still a child, \u003cbr\u003e his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where jazz, blues \u003cbr\u003e and gospel music were flourishing. His first contact with music \u003cbr\u003e came from school, where he played baritone horn with the \u003cbr\u003e school’s band. When he was 15, he showed a great interestin \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003emusic and a love for the alto saxophone. Soon, Parker was \u003cbr\u003e playing with local bands until 1935, when he left school topursue\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ea music career.  From 1935 to 1939, Parker worked in\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eKansas City with several local jazz and blues bands from\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ewhich he developed his art. In 1939, Parker visited New York \u003cbr\u003e for the first time, and he stayed for nearly a year working as\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ea professional musician and often participating in jam sessions. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThe New York atmosphere greatly influenced Parker's musical \u003cbr\u003e style. In 1938, Parker joined the band of pianist Jay McShann, \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ewith whom he toured around Southwest Chicago and New York. \u003cbr\u003e A year later, Parker traveled to Chicago and was a regular \u003cbr\u003e performer at a club on 55th street. Parker soon moved to \u003cbr\u003e New York. He washed dishes at a local food place where he \u003cbr\u003e met guitarist Biddy Fleet, the man who taught him about \u003cbr\u003e instrumental harmony. Shortly afterwards, Parker returned to\u003cbr\u003e  Kansas City to attend his father’s funeral. Once there, he joined \u003cbr\u003e Harlan Leonard’s Rockets and stayed for five months.  In 1939, \u003cbr\u003e Yardbird rejoined McShann and was placed in charge of the \u003cbr\u003e reed section. Then, in 1940, Parker made his first recording with\u003cbr\u003e  the McShann orchestra. During the four years that Parker stayed\u003cbr\u003e  with McShann's band, he got the opportunity to perform solo in \u003cbr\u003e several of their recordings, such as Hootie Blues, Sepian Bounce,\u003cbr\u003e  and the 1941 hit Confessing the Blues. In 1942, while on tour with\u003cbr\u003e  McShann, Parker performed in jam sessions at Monroe’s and \u003cbr\u003e Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem. There he caught the attention of \u003cbr\u003e up-and-coming jazz artists like Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious\u003cbr\u003e  Monk. Later that year, Parker broke with McShann and joined \u003cbr\u003e Earl Hines for eight months. The year 1945 was extremely important \u003cbr\u003e for Parker. During that time he led his own group in New York \u003cbr\u003e and also worked with Gillespie in several ensembles. In December,\u003cbr\u003e  Parker and Gillespie took their music to Hollywood on a six-week\u003cbr\u003e  nightclub tour. Parker continued to perform in Los Angeles \u003cbr\u003e until June 1946, when he suffered a nervous breakdown and \u003cbr\u003e was confined at a state hospital. After his release in January \u003cbr\u003e 1947, Parker returned to New York and formed a quintet that \u003cbr\u003e performed some of his most famous tunes. From 1947 to 1951,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eParker worked in a number of nightclubs, radio studios, and\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eothervenues performing solo or with the accompaniment of\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eother musicians. During this time, he visited Europe where \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ehe was cheered by devoted fans and did numerous recordings.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eMarch 5, 1955, was Parker’s last public engagement at Birdland,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ea nightclub in New York that was named in his honor. He died a \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eweek later in a friend’s apartment.  Charles \"Yardbird\" Parker was\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ean amazing saxophonist who gained wide recognition for his brilliant\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003esolos and innovative improvisations. He was, without a doubt, one\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eof the most influential and talented musicians\u003cbr\u003e  in jazz history. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 10.00","offer_id":97453,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frame $25.00","offer_id":50711502,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $25.00","offer_id":1473362,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1114_Charlie_Parker_2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"mahalia-jackson-1116","title":"Mahalia Jackson #1116","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e“It's easy to be independent\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e when you've got money.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e But to be independent when \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e you haven't got a thing\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e that's the Lord's test.”\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre Jackson grew up in the \"Black Pearl\" section of the Carrollton neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, and began singing in a Baptist church. In 1927 she moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she sang with The Johnson Brothers, one of the earliest professional gospel groups. The Johnson Brothers broke up in the mid-1930s, and Jackson began her solo career, recording for Decca in 1937. The result, \"God's Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares\", was only a moderate success, but Jackson became a popular concert draw. She experienced a recording hiatus until 1946 when she signed with Apollo Records, releasing several singles that are now highly regarded, though sales were sluggish at the time. \"Move on up a Little Higher\" (1948) became a huge success, however, and stores could not stock enough of it to meet demand. Jackson rocketed to fame in the U.S. and soon after in Europe. \"I Can Put My Trust in Jesus\" won a prize from the French Academy, and \"Silent Night\" was one of the best-selling singles in the history of Norway. She began a radio series on CBS and signed to Columbia Records in 1954. With her mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for popular accessibility. Jackson's career in the late 1950s and early 1960s continued to rise when she recorded with Percy Faith, and performed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. She also sang at the funeral of her friend Martin Luther King, Jr. The late 1960s saw a downturn in her popular success. She ended her career with a concert in Germany in 1971; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on The Flip Wilson Show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 8.00","offer_id":97458,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frame $25.00","offer_id":50712062,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $25.00","offer_id":1476832,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1116_Mahalia_Jackson_2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"b-b-king-1117","title":"B. B. King #1117","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\" Nobody loves me but my mother,\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e and she could be jivin, too.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRiley B. King aka B. B. King (born September 16, 1925) is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered one of the best (and most respected) blues musicians in the world. One of his trademarks is “Lucille”, a custom guitar he began using in the 1950s. There have been many incarnations of Lucille (King has had a number of guitars over his career, but calls them all Lucille) but they are usually Gibson ES-355s custom made to King’s required specifications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr \/\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr \/\u003e \u003cbr \/\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr \/\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":97461,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $ 25.00","offer_id":49683912,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 25.00","offer_id":1472722,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1117_b.b_king_2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"billie-holiday-1119","title":"Billie Holiday #1119","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\" Them thats got, shall get Them that's not,\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e shall lose So the Bible says, And it still is\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003enews Mama may have Papa may have But\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e God bless the child that's got his own\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThat's got his own \".\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoliday had a difficult childhood which greatly affected her life and career. Much of her childhood is clouded by conjecture and legend, some of it propagated by her autobiography, published in 1956. This account is known to contain many inaccuracies. Her professional pseudonym was taken from Billie Dove, an actress she admired, and Clarence Holiday, her probable father. At the outset of her career, she spelled her last name \"Halliday,\" presumably to distance herself from her neglectful father, but eventually changed it back to \"Holiday.\" Holiday's grandfather was one of 17 children of a black Virginia slave and a white Irish plantation owner. Allegedly, her mother was only 13 at the time of Holiday's birth in Philadelphia and had moved there in order to hide her out-of-wedlock pregnancy; the 1900 census lists Holiday's mother's birth year as 1896, which would make her 19 when her daughter was born. Clarence Holiday, 16 years old at the time, was a banjo player who would later play for Fletcher Henderson. (There is some controversy regarding Holiday's paternity, stemming from a copy of her birth certificate in the Baltimore archives that lists the father as a \"Frank DeViese.\" Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker — see Donald Clarke, Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon, ISBN 0-306-81136-7.) In the rare times she did see him, she would shake him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that he had a daughter. She grew up in the poor section of Baltimore, Maryland, near the projects. According to her autobiography, her house was the first on their street to have electricity. Her parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. At the age of 10, she reported having been raped. That claim, combined with her frequent truancy, resulted in her being sent to The House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic reform school, in 1925. It was only through the assistance of a family friend that she was released two years later [1]. Scarred by these experiences, Holiday moved to New York with her mother in 1928. In 1929, Sadie discovered a neighbor, Wilbert Rich, in the act of raping her daughter; Rich was sentenced to three months in jail. Sadie later remarried and abandoned Billie, who from then on was raised by a woman she called Grandma, Martha Miller. Sadie died on October 6, 1945.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":97467,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Picture Frame with Glass, 11\" x 17\" $25.00","offer_id":49708122,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 15.00","offer_id":1472902,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1119_billie_holiday_2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"josephine-baker-1121","title":"Josephine Baker #1121","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e Josephine Baker\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFreda Josephine McDonald, was a French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames \"Black Venus,\" \"Black Pearl\" and \"Creole Goddess.\" She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France. Though based in France, she supported the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, and protested racism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, whom she called her \"Rainbow Tribe.\"  She also refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and worked with the NAACP.  For some time she lived with all of her children and an enormous staff in a castle, Château de Milandes, in the Dordogne in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency hysterectomy.) In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Wearing her Free French uniform with her Legion of Honor decoration, she was the only woman to speak at the rally. As mentioned above on tours of the United States she refused to perform in segregated nightclubs. Her insistence on mixed audiences helped to integrate shows in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nevertheless, her career was on a downturn and she was near bankruptcy until she was bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, Princess Grace of Monaco, another expatriate American living in Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":97471,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frame $25.00","offer_id":50712262,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 15.00","offer_id":1476482,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1121_Josephine_Baker2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"bob-marley-1125","title":"Bob Marley #1125","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster:_ \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \" Me only have one ambition, y'know.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e I only have one thing I really like to see happen. \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e I like to see mankind live together black, \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e white, Chinese, everyone that\"s all.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Nesta Marley, OM (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the most widely known performer of reggae music, and is famous for popularizing the genre outside Jamaica. A faithful Rastafari, Marley is regarded by many as a prophet of the religion.[1]. Marley is best known for his ska, rocksteady and reggae songs, which include the hits \"I Shot the Sheriff\", \"No Woman, No Cry\", \"Three Little Birds\" \"Exodus\", \"Could You Be Loved\", \"Jamming\", \"Redemption Song\" and one of his most famous love songs, \"One Love\" His posthumous compilation album Legend (1984) is the best-selling reggae album ever, with sales of more than 12 million copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $10.00","offer_id":97480,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frame $25.00","offer_id":50712702,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 15.00","offer_id":1473072,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1125_Bob_Marley_2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"dorothy-dandridge-1126","title":"Dorothy Dandridge #1126","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster:_\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\" She was \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e everything \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e America\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e wanted a \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e movie star \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e to be.... \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e except white.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\nDorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922–September 8, 1965) was an American actress. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Actress category and the third African American to receive a nomination in any category overall (after Hattie McDaniel and Ethel Waters). Dorothy Dandridge began singing in her church's choir. Ruby Dandridge — an ambitious, small-time local performer who would become a successful stage and screen actress — created an act with her daughters that performed as \"The Wonder Children.\" The \"Wonder Children\" toured in the South for five years with Ruby's lesbian partner, Geneva Williams, while Ruby continued working and performing in Ohio. Some biographies document this period as the beginning of the sexual abuse the young Dorothy would suffer from Williams until adolescence. During this period, the young Dandrige toured non-stop, rarely attending school. With the start of the Great Depression, work for the Wonder Children dried up as it did for many of the Chitlin' circuit performers. Ruby Jean Butler Dandridge packed her family and moved to Hollywood in search of a new career for her daughters and herself. In Los Angeles, she found steady work, playing a domestic in small parts on the radio and in film. During this time, Geneva continued to train and rehearse the girls; Dorothy was also re-enrolled in school. Her first on-screen appearance was as an extra in a 1935 Our Gang short called Teacher's Beau. \n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 10.00","offer_id":97483,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frame $25.00","offer_id":50712792,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 15.00","offer_id":1474082,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1126_dorothy_dandridge_2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"miles-davis-1127","title":"Miles Davis #1127","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e “ I'm always thinking about creating.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eMy future starts when I wake up\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eevery morning . . . Every day I find\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003esomething creative to do with my life.”\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiles Dewey Davis III (May 25, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most distinguished jazz musicians of the latter half of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s. He played on some early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. He was partially responsible for the development of modal jazz, and jazz fusion arose from his work with other musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Free jazz was the only post-war jazz style not significantly influenced by Davis, although some musicians from his bands later pursued this style. His recordings, along with the live performances of his many influential bands, were vital in jazz's acceptance as music with lasting artistic value. A popularizer as well as an innovator, Davis became famous for his languid, melodic style and his laconic, and at times confrontational, personality. As an increasingly well-paid and fashionably-dressed jazz musician, Davis was also a symbol of jazz music's commercial potential. Davis was late in a line of jazz trumpeters that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe \"King\" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie. He has been compared to Duke Ellington as a musical innovator: both were skillful players on their instruments, but were not considered technical virtuosos. Ellington's main strength was as a composer and leader of a large band, while Davis had a talent for drawing together talented musicians in small groups and allowing them space to develop. Many of the major figures in post-war jazz played in one of Davis's groups at some point in their career. Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006. He has also been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame, and the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. There are plans to make a biopic about Davis starring Don Cheadle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 8.00","offer_id":97485,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frame $25.00","offer_id":50712922,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 25.00","offer_id":1477352,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1127_Miles_Davis_2009.jpg?v=1571438529"},{"product_id":"lena-horne-1130","title":"Lena Horne #1130","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\" Always be smarter\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003ethan the people who hire you.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pioneer among African-American performers, Lena Horne had the talent and beauty to crack the race barrier in Hollywood in the 1940s. A smooth singer of bluesy ballads, Horne appeared onstage in Harlem when she was only 14 years old, and by age 16 she was singing in the famous Cotton Club. Eventually she made her way into films, starring in the popular 1943 musicals \u003ci\u003eStormy Weather\u003c\/i\u003e (with the tap-dancing \u003ca class=\"ilnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/the-nicholas-brothers\" target=\"_top\"\u003eThe Nicholas Brothers\u003c\/a\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eCabin in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e (with jazz legend \u003ca class=\"ilnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/louis-armstrong\" target=\"_top\"\u003eLouis Armstrong\u003c\/a\u003e). In later years she sang in clubs and was a steady presence on TV and radio. Horne's active career spanned six decades, and in 1989 she was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHorne was due to be played by \u003ca class=\"ilnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/janet-jackson\" target=\"_top\"\u003eJanet Jackson\u003c\/a\u003e in a 2004 TV movie, but Horne barred Jackson from taking the part after Jackson flashed her near-naked breast during the halftime show of the 2004 Super Bowl... Horne was a longtime spokesperson for Sanka coffee, often singing a variation on the old Ink Spots pop hit \"Java Jive\": \"I love coffee, I love tea, I love my Sanka 'cause it loves me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 7.00","offer_id":97495,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frame $25.00","offer_id":50713492,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print $ 15.00","offer_id":1476702,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1130_Lena_Horne_2009.jpg?v=1571438530"},{"product_id":"ethel-waters-1132","title":"Ethel Waters #1132","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e“ God gave us our relatives;\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e thank God we can choose our friends. \"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWaters, Ethel\u003c\/span\u003e (1896?–1977), singer and actress. The warm, versatile African‐American performer was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, and spent years in both black and white vaudeville before making her Broadway debut in \u003ci\u003eAfricana\u003c\/i\u003e (1927). After musical appearances in \u003ci\u003e\u003ca class=\"ilnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/blackbirds-2\" target=\"_top\"\u003eBlackbirds\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e of 1930 and \u003ci\u003eRhapsody in Black\u003c\/i\u003e (1931), among others, she received star billing in the celebrated revue \u003ci\u003e\u003ca class=\"ilnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/as-thousands-cheer-1\" target=\"_top\"\u003eAs Thousands Cheer\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1933), in which she sang “Heat Wave” and “Suppertime.” Waters also triumphed in \u003ci\u003eAt Home Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e (1935), in which she introduced “The Hottentot Potentate” and “Thief in the Night.” She first demonstrated her dramatic skills as the vengeful, illiterate mother Hagar in \u003ci\u003eMamba's Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e (1939). Returning to the musical stage she won applause for her singing of “Taking a Chance on Love” and the title song in \u003ci\u003e\u003ca class=\"ilnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/cabin-in-the-sky\" target=\"_top\"\u003eCabin in the Sky\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1940), followed by the revue \u003ci\u003eBlue Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e (1945). For many her most memorable performance came as Berenice Sadie Brown, the surrogate mother to a young tomboy, in \u003ci\u003eThe \u003ca class=\"ilnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/the-member-of-the-wedding\" target=\"_top\"\u003eMember of the Wedding\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1950). Brooks \u003ca class=\"ilnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/atkinson-brooks\" target=\"_top\"\u003eAtkinson\u003c\/a\u003e wrote, “Miss Waters gives one of those rich and eloquent performances that lay such a deep spell on any audience that sees her . . . it has exalted spirit and great warmth of sympathy.” Her last important appearance was in \u003ci\u003eAt Home with Ethel Waters\u003c\/i\u003e (1953). Autobiography: \u003ci\u003eHis Eye Is on the Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e, 1951.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 10.00","offer_id":97500,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50713882,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\"  Print $25.00","offer_id":1474522,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1132_Ethel_Waters_2009.jpg?v=1571438530"},{"product_id":"b-b-king-1156","title":"B. B. King #1156","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\" I don’t think anybody steals\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e anything; all of us borrow.\"\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Riley B. King aka B. B. King (born September 16, 1925) is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered one of the best (and most respected) blues musicians in the world. One of his trademarks is “Lucille”, a custom guitar he began using in the 1950s. There have been many incarnations of Lucille (King has had a number of guitars over his career, but calls them all Lucille) but they are usually Gibson ES-355s custom made to King’s required specifications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print  $10.00","offer_id":97555,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $ 25.00","offer_id":49683982,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\"  Print $25.00","offer_id":1472732,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1156_B.B_king_2009.jpg?v=1571438530"},{"product_id":"josephine-baker-1165","title":"Josephine Baker #1165","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e Josephine Baker\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJosephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975), born Freda Josephine McDonald, was a French dancer, actress and singer. She was given the nicknames \"Black Venus,\" \"Black Pearl\" and \"Creole Goddess.\"[1]. She renounced her American citizenship in 1937 and became a citizen of France. Though based in France, she supported the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, and protested racism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, whom she called her \"Rainbow Tribe.\" She also refused to perform for segregated audiences in the United States and worked with the NAACP. For some time she lived with all of her children and an enormous staff in a castle, Château de Milandes, in the Dordogne in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency hysterectomy.) In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Wearing her Free French uniform with her Legion of Honor decoration, she was the only woman to speak at the rally. [4] As mentioned above on tours of the United States she refused to perform in segregated nightclubs. Her insistence on mixed audiences helped to integrate shows in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nevertheless, her career was on a downturn and she was near bankruptcy until she was bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, Princess Grace of Monaco, another expatriate American living in Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinger James Brown was a founding inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and one of the most influential popular musicians of the 20th century. He came out of poverty and prison to record hit singles like \"Night Train\" (1962), \"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag\" and \"I Got You \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(I Feel Good)\" (both 1965), \"Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud\" (1968), and \"Get on the Good Foot\" (1972). His inventive mix of gospel, R\u0026amp;B and primal rock and roll is credited with bringing funk to popular music, and with breaking ground not only for funk and soul but for disco music and rap as well. His personal life was equally notorious; he was arrested and jailed several times for misuse of drugs, alcohol, guns and vehicles and for domestic disputes with his four wives. Despite all that, Brown toured relentlessly throughout his life, and his sweaty, energetic, hard-dancing performances earned him the nickname of \"The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.\" He was inducted into the Rock Hall in 1986 (along with other founding members like \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/chuck-berry\"\u003eChuck Berry\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/elvis-presley\"\u003eElvis Presley\u003c\/a\u003e) and was awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to the Rock Hall of Fame, Brown's nicknames include \"'Soul Brother Number One,' 'the Godfather of Soul,' 'the Hardest Working Man in Show Business,' 'Mr. Dynamite' and even 'the Original Disco Man'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $7.00","offer_id":97578,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frame $25.00","offer_id":50718482,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\"  Print $15.00","offer_id":1476492,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1165_Josephine_Baker_2009.jpg?v=1571438531"},{"product_id":"louis-satchmo-armstrong-1166","title":"Louis Satchmo Armstrong #1166","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eIt's A Wonderful World.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAnd all I'm saying is,\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e see what a wonderful \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e world it would be if only\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e we would give it a chance.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLouis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 July 6, 1971) (also known by the \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003enicknames Satchmo, for satchel-mouth, and Pops) was an American jazz\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003emusician. Armstrong was a charismatic, innovative performer whose \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003emusical skills and bright personality transformed jazz from a rough regional\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003edance music into a popular art form. One of the most famous jazz\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003emusicians of the 20th century, he first achieved fame as a trumpeter, but\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003etoward the end of his career he was best known as a vocalist and was\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eone of the most influential jazz singers  Singer James Brown was a\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003efounding inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and one of the most\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003einfluential popular musicians of the 20th century. He came out of poverty\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eand prison to record hit singles like \"Night Train\" (1962), \"Papa's Got a\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBrand New Bag\" and \"I Got You (I Feel Good)\" (both 1965), \"Say It Loud\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e- I'm Black and I'm Proud\" (1968), and \"Get on the Good Foot\" (1972). \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHis inventive mix of gospel, R\u0026amp;B and primal rock and roll is credited with\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ebringing funk to popular music, and with breaking ground not only for funk\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eand soul but for disco music and rap as well. His personal life was equally\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003enotorious; he was arrested and jailed several times for misuse of drugs, \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ealcohol, guns and vehicles and for domestic disputes with his four wives. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDespite all that, Brown toured relentlessly throughout his life, and his\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003esweaty, energetic, hard-dancing performances earned him the nickname \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eof \"The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.\" He was inducted into\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ethe Rock Hall in 1986 (along with other founding members like \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/chuck-berry\"\u003eChuck Berry\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eand \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/elvis-presley\"\u003eElvis Presley\u003c\/a\u003e) and was awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHonors in 2003.  According to the Rock Hall of Fame, Brown's nicknames\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003einclude \"'Soul Brother Number One,' 'the Godfather of Soul,' 'the Hardest\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWorking Man in Show Business,' 'Mr. Dynamite' and even 'the Original\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDisco Man.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 7.00","offer_id":97580,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50718522,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\"  Print $15.00","offer_id":1476732,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1166_LOUIS_SATCHMO_ARMSTRONG_2009.jpg?v=1571438531"},{"product_id":"marvin-gaye-1067","title":"Marvin Gaye #1067","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e“ Marriage is miserable unless you find\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e the right person that is your soulmate \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e and that takes a lot of looking.”\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(born April 2, 1939, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died April 1, 1984, Los Angeles, Calif.) American soul singer-songwriter-producer who, to a large extent, ushered in the era of artist-controlled popular music of the 1970s. Gaye's father was a storefront preacher; his mother was a domestic worker. Gaye sang in his father's Evangelical church in Washington, D.C., and became a member of a nationally known doo-wop group, the Moonglows, under the direction of Harvey Fuqua, one of the genre's foremost maestros, who relocated the group to Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen doo-wop dissipated in the late 1950s, Gaye had already absorbed Fuqua's lessons in close harmony. After disbanding the Moonglows, Fuqua took the 20-year-old Gaye to Detroit, Michigan, where \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/search\/article.do?id=9316017\"\u003eBerry Gordy, Jr.\u003c\/a\u003e, was forming Motown Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGaye, who also played drums and piano, bucked the Motown system and its emphasis on teen hits. He was set on being a crooner in the \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/search\/article.do?id=9253026\"\u003eNat King Cole\u003c\/a\u003e– \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/search\/article.do?id=9484810\"\u003eFrank Sinatra\u003c\/a\u003e vein, but his first efforts in that style failed. His break came with “Stubborn Kinda Fellow” (1962), the first of a long string of hits in the Motown mold—mainly songs written and produced by others, including “I'll Be Doggone” (1965), by \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/search\/article.do?id=39698\"\u003eSmokey Robinson\u003c\/a\u003e, and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968), by Norman Whitfield. Gaye also enjoyed a series of successful duets, most notably with Tammi Terrell (“Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing” [1968]).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlessed with an exceptionally wide range that encompassed three distinct vocal styles—a piercing falsetto, a smooth mid-range tenor, and a deep gospel growl—Gaye combined great technical prowess with rare musical individuality. Rebellious by nature, he turned the tables on Motown's producer-driven hierarchy by becoming his own producer for \u003ci\u003eWhat's Going On\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), the most significant work of his career. A suite of jazz-influenced songs on the nature of America's political and social woes, this concept album—still a novel format at the time—painted a poignant landscape of America's black urban neighbourhoods. Gaye also displayed dazzling virtuosity by overdubbing (building sound track by track onto a single tape) his own voice three or four times to provide his own rich harmony, a technique he would employ for the rest of his career. \u003ci\u003eWhat's Going On\u003c\/i\u003e was a critical and commercial sensation in spite of the fact that \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/search\/article.do?id=9316017\"\u003eGordy\u003c\/a\u003e, fearing its political content (and its stand against the Vietnam War), had argued against its release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther major artists—most importantly \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/search\/article.do?id=9536078\"\u003eStevie Wonder\u003c\/a\u003e—followed Gaye's lead and acted as producer of their own efforts. In 1972 Gaye wrote the soundtrack for the film \u003ci\u003eTrouble Man,\u003c\/i\u003e with lyrics that mirrored his own sense of insecurity. \u003ci\u003eLet's Get It On,\u003c\/i\u003e released in 1973, displayed Gaye's sensuous side. \u003ci\u003eI Want You\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) was another meditation on libidinous liberation. \u003ci\u003eHere, My Dear\u003c\/i\u003e (1979) brilliantly dealt with Gaye's divorce from Gordy's sister Anna (the first of the singer's two tumultuous divorces).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eNow available 11\" x 17\"\u003cbr\u003e Print with Black Frames $25.00\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For 24\" x 36' Size prints\u003cbr\u003e please call 678-608-7892 to order\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Emancipation2000","offers":[{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print $ 7.00","offer_id":97588,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11\" x 17\" Print with Black Frames $25.00","offer_id":50643422,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18\" x 24\" Print  $ 15.00","offer_id":1477262,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0001\/2488\/products\/1067_Marvin_Gaye_2009.jpg?v=1571438531"},{"product_id":"ella-fitzgerald-1172","title":"Ella Fitzgerald #1172","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eCaption from poster__\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\" It isn’t where you come from\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e it’s where you’re going that counts.”\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), was considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century. 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