New game

[Hardbopjazz]

Who's buried here? Musician only. I used Photoshop to remove the name.

Edited September 20, 2012 by Hardbopjazz

[Chuck Nessa]

Tut Soper.

[Hardbopjazz]

I wonder if "someone's watching over him."

I'll say György Gerkin.

(Wrap body in Blue?)

This person is buried in the US.

Tut Soper.

No.

Buried on the east coast.

[Hardbopjazz]

Nope. Born in New York.

E is the last letter of first name.

Edited September 20, 2012 by Hardbopjazz

[Hardbopjazz]

Well, it'll be a blue monday before I can figure this out.

(how long can I milk this)

One of his most famous pieces of music has the work blue in the title.

Last letter of last name is N.

Edited September 20, 2012 by Hardbopjazz

[Chuck Nessa]

It Ain't Nessa Sarah Lee so.

[Hardbopjazz]

Another clue. He died shortly after passing out at concert of one of his works.

It Ain't Nessa Sarah Lee so.

Funny.

[GA Russell]

George Gershwin?

[Chuck Nessa]

Give the man a pie in the face!

[Hardbopjazz]

George Gershwin?

Yes, you guessed who. Your turn.

Edited September 20, 2012 by Hardbopjazz

[JSngry]

Miroslav Vitous?

[GA Russell]

I couldn't get two good jazz photos to transfer over (I think it had something to do with rights to both photos), so I will let you guess the famous name this non-jazz person was known by:

[clifford_thornton]

Dashiell.

[JSngry]

Miroslav Vitous?

[paul secor]

Anyone interested in the headstones of the famous could do worse than check out Jonathan Williams' A Palpable Elysium. This book contains photographs of numerous well known (and some less well known but interesting) people whom Jonathan Williams made the aquaintance of during his lifetime. In addition, there are photographs of the headstones of Charlie ("Charles" on his headstone) Parker, James Thurber, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jelly Roll Morton, Erik Satie, Kenneth Grahame, Vincent van Gogh, Walt Whitman, Edgar Tolson, e.e. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings on his headstone), H.P. Lovecraft, and Wallace Stevens.

Jonathan Williams photographed many other headstones and graves. Yale University has possession of his collected photographs and slides. I hope that someday there will be a book of his headstone monuments.

I highly recommend A Palpable Elysium (a handsome edition availble on sale for a pittance from the publisher) and Mr. Williams' essay, "Paying Respects" in his collection, Blackbird Dust. I still have the page from The N.Y. Times when "Paying Respects" was published in 1976. I thought it was important then, and still do.

In case anyone's interested, when I recommend something highly, I don't do it lightly.

[GA Russell]

Dashiell.

Correct, Cliff!

Now it's your turn!