On old Delancey Street
These storefronts are in fact 191 and 193 Bowery. But let’s imagine them on Delancey Street, nos. 6 and 8.
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Billie Holiday’s residence: Now with an apartment number and the 1940 census.
The Duke Ellington House
On St. Nicholas Avenue.
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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.
Apollo
The Apollo Theater, with the February 23, 1940 bill on the marquee.
Yazoo Zippy, sort of
In today’s Zippy, Bill Griffith pays tribute to his great-grandfather, the painter and photographer William Henry Jackson. One of Jackson’s photographs appears on the cover of a Yazoo LP.
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.
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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.
Janis Joplin in Sing Out!
When I first saw this stamp, I felt a shock of recognition: I knew the photograph right away. It appeared in the September / October 1970 issue of Sing Out! (“The Folk Song Magazine”)
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.
Mississippi John Hurt: Sing Out!
A 1967 magazine cover.
Contrapuntalism
A new site from the creator of Blackwing Pages.
Dick Clark (1929–2012)
A 1958 photograph.
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
The Burt Britton Collection
Auction of self-portraits by actors, artists, athletes, musicians, photographers, and writers