This photo is from the collection of Gerald Adams.  “Jerry”, born in 1927 to a musical New Orleans family, has played with many different musicians through his 62 years of performing.  His musical styles include “strait ahead jazz”, traditional jazz, country and western, and rhythm-and-blues.

This photo is of Gerald Adams on the bass, Ed Frank, piano, and Clarence Ford, saxophone at their regular job at the Marriott Hotel. (1994).

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