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Newspaper advertisement for the Grand Terrace Rainbow Room. "DANCE and FLOOR SHOW Every Sunday nite. Featuring MISS NELLIE JONES, the little girl with a voice like a nightingale."Weekly Review, July 11, 1942. Count Basie is pictured at the piano,…

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Pianist / composer / arranger Avery Parrish (1917-1959), creator of the jazz and blues piano standard "After Hours," first recorded with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra in 1940.

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Weekly Review, January 31, 1941.

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Jimmy Chappell Orchestra at the Pickwick Club, Birmingham, Alabama.

Courtesy Carol Clarke.

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LeMeyer Stanfield -- also known as "Lee," "Leemie," and "Gate" Stanfield --longtime bassist for the Bama State Collegians / Erskine Hawkins Orchestra.

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Leatha Lowe at piano. Along with her brothers J. L. and Sammy, Leatha Lowe belonged to one of Black Birmingham’s most prominent musical families. A classically trained pianist, Leatha taught private piano lessons in her home to numerous Birmingham…

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