John McGinnis took some of the most historic music photos in Vancouver.

In 1949, he photographed jazz great Louis Armstrong sitting on a suitcase playing his trumpet after Armstrong was denied a room at the Hotel Vancouver because he was black.

In 1956, he shot Bill Haley and the Comets at the Kerrisdale Arena, Vancouver’s first rock ‘n’ roll show. McGinnis promoted the show with his friend, disc jockey Jack Cullen.

But his best music photo is of a relatively unknown local musician, Rudy Morin, and his trio at Morin’s family supper club, the Gai Paree.

The bespectacled Rudy is sitting behind a Hammond organ. A mirror is placed behind him and angled down, so you can see his fingers play the banks of keys on the Hammond.

Trumpet player John Goudie stands to his left, tilting up with his

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