DJ Ryan Swift

I’ve seen some of these floating around in the past, but a couple of these shots by William Gottlieb featured by How to be a Retronaut from the Library of Congress collection were new to me this time.

Check out the Art Hodes River Boat Jazz Band (Kaiser Marshall, Art Hodes, Sandy Williams, Cecil (Xavier) Scott, and Henry (Clay) Goodwin) as they swing Times Square in a horse-drawn carriage promoting their gig uptown at Columbus Circle (where Jazz @ Lincoln Center would lay down roots 60+ years later).

Click on over and see the full set at How to be a Retronaut.