About Professor Bop  

***** Professor Bop as in jazz bop / rebop / or simply bebop. *****











I live in New England, USA.

Teaching and learning are my pasttimes.

I like taking shots of people, clotheslines, fire escapes, street art, nature, billboards, architecture, reflections, silhouettes, and ....








PROFESSOR BOP


There's a cat in Harlem town
Got a new craze goin' down
Oop be dop la heel ya bop
Called Professor Bop
Wears a tam and big bow tie
Flashy clothes that catch your eye
Oop be dop la kloog a mop
He's Professor Bop
He's the latest thing
Derived from swing
La pop a hool ya koo
See him everywhere
Hear him on the air
He can do it so can you
Take a song like Audl Lang Syne
Then you add a bebop line
Oop be dop la kloog a mop
Like Professor Bop

- - Babs Gonzales












The photographer strives to develop a sharp and knowing eye, seeing the world through the prism of reflection, just as art itself reflects the culture in which we live.






Often times impressions are formed.






Jazz and poetry are passions!






MILES DAVIS WAS A JAZZMAN


Miles Davis was a jazzman
A razzamatazz man
Leader of the band
With a trumpet in his hand
Miles Davis
Miles Davis.

Miles Davis was
A looming lyrical man
Soft and sassy,
Bold and brassy,
A bebop hipster
Sharp as a tack
So clean,
So cool.

Boppin' the blues at Birdland
with his big bop band
Bebop
Doo Bop
Strictly Rebop

On the corner
On Green Dolphin Street
Down on 52nd Street
and the uptown Harlem beat
There was Miles
Steamin'... workin'... cookin'... relaxin'

The musings of Miles were often
kind of blue
Like a blue haze on quiet nights
A bluesette at starlight
A blue mood heard round about midnight
Miles Davis was all blues.

A muted Miles melody
Is a soft soothing lullaby
in any language.
From his sketches of Spain
to the girls of Kilimanjaro
and the images of Nefertiti
Miles was the man with the horn
From whom the cool was born.

I thought I saw Miles just the other day
I heard that trumpet cry, wail, sigh
In a silent way
Miles away
Miles in the sky

Miles Davis


© 1999 Professor Bop


Favorite Photographers: Gordon Parks, Dorthea Lange, O. Winston Link, Angel Rizzuto, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Roy DeCarava, Francis Wolff

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Meaning in The Mist



Wilmington Vermont


Rail Vignettes



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EXPLORE: 88 Photos




1. Energy Efficiency, 2. Sunday In New York, 3. JAZZ: Sonny Fortune, 4. A View From The Train, 5. Solitary Confinement, 6. After The Rain in Orange, 7. Drifting Live, 8. RRxing,

9. Jeremy Pelt At Birdland, 10. Street Photographer 2, 11. AMTRAK 912, 12. JAZZ: Ramon de Bruyn, 13. Sunset In Vermont, 14. Window Shopping, 15. Red Latch #2 In Blue Minor, 16. Ice On The Rocks,

17. $1.67 A Share, 18. Dry Stone, 19. Nightrance, 20. Summer Moments, 21. Autumn Silhouette, 22. Autumn Shack, 23. Autumn In Vermont, 24. Changes Two,

25. Autumn Barn, 26. Take Me To The River, 27. Hey You!, 28. Marta, 29. Departure, 30. 65 mph, 31. New York Sketchbook, 32. Monster In Red,

33. Steppin' Into Darkness, 34. A Classic Obsession, 35. Visuals, 36. Hello To The Wind, 37. I Cover The Waterfront, 38. Monk Mural, 39. NYC Heat, 40. Morning Dance,

41. Williamsburg Street Graf, 42. Without The One You Love, 43. Red Roof Barn, 44. Streamlined, 45. To Her Ladyship, 46. Autumn Refrain, 47. Daffodil by Rain, 48. Walk On By,

49. Take Five, 50. All Blues, 51. in Just- for kuckamanyou, 52. Greetings from Fort Liquordale, Florida, 53. Ring Ring Ring, 54. Waters Of March, 55. Scenic Roots, 56. No Standing Any Time,

57. Honey Can You Spare A Dime, 58. Hocus Pocus, 59. She's Got Legs, 60. Steel, Smoke and Steam, 61. "My Ship", 62. A New York State of Mind, 63. Giant Steps, 64. No Room For Squares,

65. Black Coffee, 66. Oop Bop Sh'Bam, 67. On Green Dolphin Street, 68. Blues In The Night, 69. Metamorphosis, 70. Portrait, 71. Afterthoughts, 72. Bohemia

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