Photo Gallery


Buddy Bolden Band in 1905

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, 1921

Count Basie, Lester Young, and other jazz greats
at Gjon Mili's Studio in New York, 1942

Duke Ellington, Jazz Jam Session, 1942


Billie Holiday sings her standard, "Fine and Mellow,"
 accompanied by James P. Johnson on piano
 and others during a 1942 jam session in Gjon Mili's studio.

Duke Ellington & Dizzy Gillespie, 1942







Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall, 1944

Louis Amstrong and Billie Holiday
appeared in the movie 'New Orleans' (1946).
Musicians in the picture: Red Callender, Zutty Singleton,
 Louis Armstrong, Charlie Beal (hidden),
Kid Ory, Billie Holiday, Bud Scott.

Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday
 appeared in the movie 'New Orleans' (1946). 

Musicians in the picture: Zutty Singleton,
 Red Callender, Charlie Beal, Louis Armstrong,
 Bud Scott, Kid Ory, Barney Bigard.

Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday
 appeared in the movie 'New Orleans' (1946). 

Musicians in the picture: Zutty Singleton,
Red Callender, Charlie Beal, Louis Armstrong,
Bud Scott, Kid Ory, Barney Bigard.

Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald
 and Benny Goodman, 1948, New York

Bassist Charles Mingus, drummer Roy Haynes,
pianist Thelonious Monk and saxophonist Charlie Parker
performing at New York's Open Door nightclub in 1953.

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
 recording the album Ella and Louis, 1956

John Coltrane, Shadow Wilson, Thelonious Monk
and Ahmed Abdulmalik at the Five Spot, 1957

During a recording session 'Kind of Blue' -
John Coltrane,
Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis
and Bill Evans, New York, May 26, 1958.

John Coltrane and Miles Davis,
Columbia Recording Studios, New York, 1958

Duke Ellington, Big Band, Munich 1963

Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie & Gerald Wilson.
Monterey Jazz Festival. 1963

Duke Ellington signing autographs
 in the rain in USSR, 1971.

B.B. King, John Lee Hooker & Willie Dixon
- Los Angeles, 1991

John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
kind of blue session, 1959

Birdland - Jazz Club. NYC between West
 52nd & 53rd Sts 1960.
 BY William Claxton

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
in the studio, 1956

John Coltrane with Archie Shepp,
Van Gelder Studio,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1965.
 Photo by Chuck Stewart.















Concert - Rehearsals, Ray Charles,
BB King, Philip Morris Tour, New York - 1990

B.B. King. Sprague Music Hall.
Yale University. November 1974.

Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis with the
Miles Davis Quintet at the Concertgebouw
in Amsterdam,
 1964. Photo by Piter Doele

Miles Davis performing with Wayne Shorter
on saxophone and Herbie Hancock
on piano in Berlin, Germany in 1964.

Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis,
 Gigi Gryce, and Max Roach (1954)

'A Great Day in Harlem' is a 1958 black
and white group portrait of 57 notable jazz musicians
photographed in front of a Brownstone in Harlem,
New York City by Art Kane.
 The photo has remained an important
object in the study of the history of jazz.
 


John Coltrane with Cannonball Adderley,
Paul Chambers and Miles Davis,
Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, 1958

Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, George Shearing
and Oscar Peterson at the February 12,
1990, "Hearts for Ella" tribute concert
 at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.

Sonny Rollins with Coleman Hawkins
at Newport, 1963





Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie,
 Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster
at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1958

Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie,
 Jet Magazine, October 22, 1953

Miles Davis, Gary Bartz. Tanglewood, 1970.



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