1943 - Count Basie and his Orchestra - Riverside Park - Los Angeles
Remembering Chet Baker (December 23, 1929 - May 13, 1988)
A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside… I’m going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.
- Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman. New York, 1948.
Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz performing, Chicago, Illinois,
circa 1964.
“Miles's music gave me plenty of freedom," he said. "It's
a beautiful approach...I found it easy to apply harmonic
ideas that I had." - John Coltrane
photo: Don Hunstein
John Coltrane was used for the first time soprano sax at the
Sutherland Lounge in Chicago, January 1959
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Cannonball Adderley, Gerry Mulligan and Coleman Hawkins at Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, 1957. Photo: Dennis Stock
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. giving his first civil rights speech, 1955. He was 26 years old.
He was speaking at the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, just four days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on one of the city’s buses.
“I want to say that in all of our actions we must stick together. Unity is the great need of the hour, and if we are united we can get many of the things that we not only desire but which we justly deserve.”
Duke Ellington at the piano and Louis Armstrong on trumpet rehearse Leonard Feather’s “Long, Long Journey” during a session at the RCA Victor recording studio, January 12, 1946.
Source: Associated Press
Kenny Clarke, Miles Davis and Pierre Michelot
performing live at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris on
December 5, 1957.
Drummer and composer Max Roach
(January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007)
photography: Kwame Brathwaite