Photos Over The Years

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  • The Five Spot in the mid 1960s. Barry Harris, piano; Ray McKinney, bass; Charles McPherson, alto sax; Billy Higgins, drums; Lonnie Hillyer, trumpet
  • Click for more photos and Mark Weber’s article about Charles
  • Keystone Korner, May 1983. Last performance by Charles McPherson.
  • Lonnie Hillyer, Betty Rogers, and Charles at a Detroit Jazz Club Dinner Mid 1970
  • Hanging out in Detroit Mid 1960s
  • International Saxophone Symposium, George Mason University, January 21, 1995
  • William Woods, Ira Jackson, Charles, and Lonnie Hillyer. Detroit 1958. Photo Credit: William Claxton
  • “Eastwood After Hours” Live at Carnegie Hall with Charles McPherson, James Moody & others. October 1996. Photo Credit: Arthur Elgort
  • Earl Williams, drums; James Jamerson, bass; Charles McPherson, alto sax; Abe Woodley, piano–New Music Society (The World Stage), Detroit, MI. Mid 1950s. Photo by Rudy Tucich.
  • Earl Williams, drums; James Jamerson, bass; Lonnie Hillyer, trumpet; Charles Mcpherson,alto sax–New Music Society, Detroit, MI. Photo by Rudy Tucich.
  • Charles with Phil Woods, Frank Morgan and James Moody in San Francisco’s 75th anniversary tribute to Charlie Parker – 1995
  • 1966 Charles and Lonnie Hillyer playing with Charles Mingus