Jazz Memories
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Ella and Marilyn!
FYI: it is not widely known then that Marilyn Monroe was largely responsible for breaking down the racism that prevented Ella from working the big time clubs. Marilyn was a massive fan.
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Dizzy Gillespie, Mary Lou Williams, Tadd Dameron, Hank Jones, Milt Orent, Dixie Bailey, and Jack Teagarden, Mary Lou Williams' apartment, New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1947
Dizzy Gillespie, Mary Lou Williams, Tadd Dameron, Hank Jones, Milt Orent, Dixie Bailey, and Jack Teagarden, Mary Lou Williams' apartment, New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1947
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Jazz composer Duke Ellington sits with Billie Holiday and pianist and music critic Leonard Feather in this 1945 photo. Holiday starred in a short film with Ellington in 1935 and toured Europe with Feather in 1954.
Jazz composer Duke Ellington sits with Billie Holiday and pianist and music critic Leonard Feather in this 1945 photo. Holiday starred in a short film with Ellington in 1935 and toured Europe with Feather in 1954.
Here is one of my favorite musicians, Bud Powell
Fred Seibert (Mosaic Records) used to have a Flickr page up with loads photographs by Frank Wolff in color. Sadly it's been taken down
Fred Seibert (Mosaic Records) used to have a Flickr page up with loads photographs by Frank Wolff in color. Sadly it's been taken down
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