New Orleans Jazz Museum - Traditional jazz bassist George "Pops" Foster passed away in San Francisco on this day in 1969 at age of 77. Foster was born in McCall, Louisiana in
Eagle Saloon - Left to Right: Pops Foster, Bunk Johnson, and Sidney Bechet bring New Orleans to New York, circa 1945. Johnson and Bechet had been bandmates in Frankie Dusen's Eagle Band
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