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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.
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Bassist Charles Mingus (1922-1979) was known as The Angry Man of Jazz, for his explosive temper. He is often overlooked as one of the most important... more
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Bassist Charles Mingus (1922-1979) was known as "The Angry Man of Jazz," for his explosive temper. He is often overlooked as one of the most important composers and performers of jazz. He briefly was a member of Duke Ellington's band, and has the distinction of being the only artist fired personally by Ellington. 1953's "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" is acknowledged for its greatness, complete with liner notes written by Mingus' psychotherapist.
Mingus suffered from Lou Gehrig's Disease. He died in Mexico, as did Steve McQueen the following year in 1980. Mingus was born in Nogales, Arizona.
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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