GME Celebrates International Jazz Day with Hugh Bell: Jazz Portraits and Album Covers

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GME Celebrates International Jazz Day with Hugh Bell: Jazz Portraits and Album Covers

April 30th was declared International Jazz Day by UNESCO in 2011, and has since become the world’s largest celebration of jazz. In honor of International Jazz Day, GME highlights photographs from the Hugh Bell collection that capture a number of jazz legends from the 1950s through the 1980s.

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GME Remembers Iconic Actor Richard Roundtree

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GME Remembers Iconic Actor Richard Roundtree

On Tuesday, October 24th, 2023, actor Richard Roundtree died at the age of 81 following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer.  A pioneering performer who broke down barriers for Black actors, Roundtree was photographed at the height of his fame by Hugh Bell, a photographer who broke down barriers for Black visual artists and whose body of work GME exclusively represents.

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