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Bob Parent (photographer)
Bob Parent (1923–1987) was a Canadians, Canadian-born photographer who specialized in photographing the Jazz musicians of New York City. His photographs often appeared in ''Life (magazine), Life'', ''DownBeat'' and ''Metronome (magazine), Metronome'' magazines, in books and album covers. One of his photos, a picture of the Thelonious Monk Trio accompanied by Charlie Parker, has been called the "greatest photo in Jazz history" by ''The New York Times''. The picture features Monk, Roy Haynes, Charles Mingus and Charlie Parker at the Open Door, a now defunct Jazz club in Greenwich Village. Parent also designed LP jackets for independent recording companies, such as Miles Davis' ''Conception (album), Conception'' for Prestige Records, Prestige. During the 1960s, Parent turned to social and political photojournalism. He died from a brain tumor in 1987. See also *List of notable brain tumor patients References External linksAllAboutJazz.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
