Xavier Roberts Xavier Roberts Xavier Roberts (born October 31, 1955 in Cleveland, Georgia) is an American artist and entrepreneur. He is best known for marketing the Cabbage Patch Kid dolls. At the age of five, Xavier Roberts' father died in a car accident, leaving his mother to raise him and his five siblings. Roberts then attended White County High School and then attended Truett McConnell Junior College where he was an award-winning art student. After meeting the "Doll Babies" artist named Martha Nelson Thomas at a craft fair, Roberts began reselling her products and eventually copying her designs of a quilted doll
Originally Originally Originally is an album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded in 1956 and but not released on the Columbia label until 1982. The album features unreleased tracks from the sessions that produced "The Jazz Messengers" and "Hard Bop" which have since been released as bonus tracks on those albums and "Drum Suite". Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars stating "This LP contains valuable performances by the early Jazz Messengers that sat unissued until decades later... Although not an essential set, Art Blakey fans will find this album to be a valuable gapfiller in the history of