Recently updated
Billie Holiday’s residence: Now with an apartment number and the 1940 census.
The Duke Ellington House
On St. Nicholas Avenue.
Recently updated
A reprise of the 1958 A Great Day in Harlem photograph.
Not yet a Great Day
The brownstone where the 19478 photograph A Great Day in Harlem was taken.
Nightspots
I took a look at 52nd Street and found the Onyx Club and the Famous Door, fabled names in jazz.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A 1938 photograph.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A photograph and a comment on his neighborhood in Queens.
“The greatest photo in jazz”?
Uh-uh.
From Jazz Dance
If Weegee were to have made a film at a jazz dance, I think it would look much like this one.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A photograph.
Recently updated
The Times now has a photograph that is unmistakably of Big Joe Turner.
Which Joe Turner?
A photograph in the New York Times: of the singer Big Joe Turner, or of the pianist Joe Turner?
Billie Holiday, 1957
Photographs of Billie Holiday by Jerry Dantzic, taken during Holiday’s week-long engagement at the Sugar Hill nightclub in Newark, New Jersey, April 1957.
Harlem 1958 interactive
From the New York Daily News, an interactive version of Art Kane’s famed photograph Harlem 1958 .
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
I think of Armstrong as a bodhisattva showing us all the way to enlightenment.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A 1965 photograph.
On Louis Armstrong’s birthday
A Gordon Parks photograph.
Bert Stern (1929–2013)
With Aram Avakian, he created the film Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1959), a documentary about the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. It makes 1958 look like the coolest year in history.
Frank Driggs (1930–2011)
A collector of jazz photographs.
Michael P. Smith, photographer
Photographer of New Orleans culture and music
Herman Leonard (1923–2010)
Jazz photographer
On Louis Armstrong's birthday
Great 1965 photograph by John Loengard
Legends of Jazz Photography
Photography exhibition in L.A.: Claxton, Gottlieb, Leonard
Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister
A William P. Gottlieb photograph