From Seeing Jazz
Ed Love, "Alabama," welded steel, June 1993, from the
artist's collection
Gordon Mutes)," photograph, courtesy of the artist Parks,
"Untitled (Musician's Feet with Mutes) 1960
Jeam-Michel Basquiat, "With Strings Part 2," acrylic and mixed media on
canvas, 1983. Courtesy of the Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA.
From Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington
Ellington was a favorite of Japanese jazz lovers. This 1972 commercial
poster appeared in major cities all over Japan. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Archive
Center, The Ellington Collection
Part of the Duke Ellington Orchestra performing in Paris, 1950. Frank
Driggs Collection
Publicity poster for 1943 film, "Cabin in the Sky"
Duke Ellington in Washington, D.C., with Harry Duke in front of
Duke's record store, the Quality Music Company, c. 1945-6. Photo by Addison Scurlock.
Courtesy Frank Driggs Collection.
Duke Ellington, Junior Raglin, Bass, 1942. Frank Driggs Collection.
Ellington at Piano. Frank Driggs Collection.
From The Jazz Age in Paris, 1914-1940
Josephine Baker, "J'ai deux amours" ("I Have Two
Loves."), from the Casino de Paris qui remue, 1930. Smithsonian Instituion,
Washington, DC.
Photograph by Morgan and Marvin Smith. Partial cast of Lew
Leslie's "Black Birds of 1938" off to Europe, 1939.
Photograph/publicity still from Gerald Murphy's ballet,
"Within the Quota," 1923. Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Ballroom dance team "Norton and Margot" at Les
Ambassadeurs Club, Paris, 1936. Courtesy of Margo Webb.
From Lost Jazz Shrines
Lincoln Theatre, Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of the
Historical Society of Washington, DC, Emile A. Press Slide Collection.
Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge and Teddy Hill relaxing at
Minton's. Courtesy of William P. Gottlieb.
From Sung and UnSung: Jazz Women
Jane Sager, courtesy of Jane Sager
Billie Holiday, 1957. Courtesy Frank Driggs Collection.
Lil Hardin Armstrong, 1939. Courtesy Danny Barker.
The Uptown String Quartet. Courtesy Nina D'Alessandro.
Clora Bryant, c. 1960s. Courtesy of Clora Bryant.
Sarah Vaughan, Birdland, c. 1949. Photo by Popsie Randolph, courtesy
Frank Driggs Collection.
From Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy
That Happy Feeling, 1950s-1960s, mixed media collage
on cardboard reel-to-reel tape container. Louis Armstrong Archives, Queens College, CUNY.
Club DeLisa, Chicago; Louis Armstrong, Lucille Armstrong,
Clarence Armstrong, and two unidentified women, c. 1943. Unidentified photographer. Louis
Armstrong Archives, Queens College, City University of New York. |
