Here's pianist Marty Napoleon, from Betty's fabulous collection of photos, sent along by her friend Chris. Betty has donated all of her prints, including this one, to Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies. But since she and Chris also are big JazzWax readers, they wanted you to see them, too. To my eye, this looks like it was taken right around the time Napoleon joined the Louis Armstrong All Stars in 1952.
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JazzWax clip: Here's Marty Napoleon on piano backing up Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden during an NBC broadcast in 1957...
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Marc Myers writes frequently on music and the arts for the Wall Street Journal. He is author of "Why Jazz Happened" (University of California Press). In 2012, JazzWax was named the Jazz Journalists Association's "Blog of the Year."
And Marty -- irrepressible, full of stories -- is still with us.
Posted by: Michael Steinman | March 15, 2011 at 07:09 AM