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Any idea who is the guitarist with Billie Holiday?


Hardbopjazz

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Frank Büchmann-Møller, in his Ben Webster biography, identifies him as the band boy of the Willie Bryant band, and only gives his nickname "shoebrush". I see several sources online repeat the "shoebrush" epithet, but no additional info.

Edit to add: Timme Rosenkrantz took that picture! I have his autobiography, as well as a book of his pictures edited, I think, by the same Büchmann-Møller, but I won't be able to access them for another month. I can check then, if the mystery hasn't been solved.

Also worth noting that this Italian site site claims Shoebrush was an Apollo stagehand, not the Willie Bryant band boy: https://www.musicajazz.it/lady-billie-holiday/

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