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Jazz Photography

Photographers were inspired by the cool sensibilities of jazz musicians as they practiced their craft. Learn more about jazz and the birth of cool in the National Portrait Gallery's online exhibition American Cool.

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  • Count Basie Band - 2nd Jam

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Willie "the Lion" Smith

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Dizzy Gillespie at the bandstand, Newport Jazz Festival, RI

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Ray Brown

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  • Chet Baker

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Dizzy Gillespie

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  • Bud Powell

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  • Ella Fitzgerald

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  • Art Tatum

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  • Billie Holiday

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  • Art Blakey

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  • Duke Ellington

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  • Gerry Mulligan and Zoot Sims

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Louis Armstrong

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  • Sarah Vaughan

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  • Stan Getz

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  • Dinah Washington

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Charlie Parker

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Lester Young

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  • Nat King Cole

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Thelonious Monk

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  • Max Roach

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  • Johnny Hodges

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  • Dancing at Jazz Alley. Chicago, Illinois, June 1974, from the series Southern Roads/City Pavements

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  • Clifford Brown

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Buddy Rich

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Quincy Jones

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Frank Sinatra

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Sonny Stitt

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  • Fats Navarro

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  • Billy Eckstine

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Dexter Gordon

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  • Sidney Bechet

    National Portrait Gallery
  • Miles Davis

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  • Fatha Hines

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