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McKinney’s Cotton Pickers: Graystone Ballroom Photograph

Posted November 25th, 2018 by detroitsound & filed under .

McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, a Black dance orchestra active from 1927 to 1934, served as the house band at Detroit’s Graystone Ballroom.

Graystone Museum Salvage: Photo Collection

Posted July 7th, 2015 by detroitsound & filed under .

Bernard “Tree” Hill: Jazz Scrapbook

Posted June 19th, 2015 by detroitsound & filed under .

Bernard “Tree” Hill, brother of Detroiter and jazz pianist Phil Hill, compiled this scrapbook of photos with national jazz and local musicians.

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