Days [ ) Hell | Edith Piaf, 1915-1963
Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf in her green room in New York, 1947 “Drugs are a carnival in hell.” Edith Piaf,...
Jazz Moments
Prot-a-gonist * Gertrude Lawrence / Sings George and Ira Gershwin, 1926
Gertrude Lawrence in Oh Kay!, 1926 Gertrude Lawrence became the first British performer to star in an American musical on...
Jazz legends in France | Photos by Jean-Pierre Leloir, 1940s-1960s
Jean-Pierre Leloir, John Coltrane Jean-Pierre Leloir, Billie Holiday, Mars Club, Paris, 1958 Jean-Pierre Leloir, Coleman Hawkins Jean-Pierre Leloir, Eric Dolphy,...
A Merrier Christmas | Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk, A Merrier Christmas (Autograph Manuscript) "A Merrier Christmas" was a composition that Thelonious Monk wrote for his family,...
Jazz Album Covers | Designed by Jim Flora, 1947 – 1955
Jim Flora, Bix and Tram" Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer, 1947 Charlie Ventura And His Orchestra, For Boppers Only,...
Jazz Moments | “All Of Me” manuscript lyrics | George Harrison, 1960s
George Harrison, Handwritten "All Of Me", 1960s. Harrison is believed to have performed this song at the Cavern Club in...
Songbook | Me and My Shadow | Nat Shilkret, 1927
written by Al Jolson, Billy Rose and Dave Dreyer Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra - Me and My Shadow,...
Jazz Album Covers | Designed by Neil Fujita, 1955-1959
Charles Mingus: Ah Um, 1959 ...
Playing with Prez was something | Miles Davis on Lester Young, 1990
Lester Young & Miles Davis, 1950s photo: Burt Goldblatt . And then I met “The President,” Lester Young, when he...