Ella Fitzgerald in a Houston jail cell with her assistant in Oct. 1955, set up by the cops for playing a show with Dizzy Gillespie for an integrated audience.
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There's no love song finer
But how strange the change
From major to minor
Every time we say goodbye
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Utterly depressing how defeated she looks. She was 1 of my dad's fave singers, I've listened to her since I was but a babe.
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Have to love the fir stoles that those policemen wouldn't be able to afford to buy for their wives.
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Illinois Jacquet: Integrating Houston Jazz Audiences Lands
Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie in Jail
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Wonderful 💯. Thk you 🌹
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