[78-L] Ezzard Charles

[Dennis Flannigan]

Charles was also a respected double bass
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass>player who played with some of
the jazz greats in the 1940s and 1950s at such notable places as Birdland
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdland_(jazz_club)> (jazz composer George
Russell <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Russell_(composer)> wrote the
famous tune "Ezz-Thetic" in his honor).

Dennis Flannigan