Bob Parent (1923 - 1987) was Canadian-born photographer who specialized in photographing the Jazz musicians of New York City. His phototgraphs often appeared in Life and Downbeat magazines and in books and album covers. He succumbed to a brain tumor in 1997. Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ... NYC and New York, New York redirect here. ... Life is a multi-faceted concept that may refer to the ongoing process of which living things are a part the period between the conception (the point at which the entity can be considered to be an individualized being) and death of an organism the condition of an entity between... The downbeat is the first beat of a measure in music. ...