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Mr and Mrs Miles Davis

Paul Chambers with unidentified beauty. Photo by Francis Wolff.


Art Blakey, Tommy Potter, Budd Johnson, Junior Williams, Fats Navarro, Chippy Outcalt, Billy Eckstine and Gene Ammons


Dizzy Gillespie, King of 52nd Street, 1946

–William Gottlieb


Dexter Gordon, Richard “Blue” Mitchell, and Gene Taylor. Jazzhus Montmartre Copenhagen, Denmark 1964.

Photo by Jørgen Bonfils

Shirley Horn, right, (born on this date in 1934) with Sheila Jordan at Fat Tuesday’s, New York City. Circa 1983.
© Mitchell Seidel

Jazz Stage


Mr. and Mrs. Dizzy and Lorraine Gillespie 1953
Photo: David Jackson/Ebony magazine


Miles Davis in his house, West 77th Street, New York, 1971

Photo: Anthony Barboza

Photo: Musicians Jimmy Buchanan (sax), Earl Watkins (drums), Eric Miller (guitar), Commodore Lark (bass), Norvell Randall (piano) playing at Slim Jenkins Supper Club on Seventh Street in Oakland. (Courtesy of African American Museum and Library at Oakland)

Hazel Scott, Teddy Wilson on piano, Al Hall on double bass, Benny Morton on trombone, Bill Coleman on trumpet, and Jimmy Hamilton on clarinet.

Hazel performed with Teddy Wilson’s band in 1940, in a historic collaboration that brought together two jazz greats on the stage of Café Society in New York

Blossom Dearie

Bent Axen with Don Byas, Dexter Gordon, and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (NHØP) on stage at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1963 (or 1964)

Now that is a fun line-up.