If You Have to Ask What Jazz is, You’ll Never Know | Louis Armstrong, 1901-1971
Louis Armstrong draws a trumpet on the Head of a French Punk, 1961 . "If you have to ask what...
Jazz Moments
Days [ ) Originality | Lester Young, 1909-1959
Lester Young near the Five Spot Cafe NYC, 1958. (Photo: Herb Snitzer) . “Originality’s the thing, you can have tone...
Flick Review < Shadows | John Cassavetes, 1959
"We were improvising . . . every scene was very simple. They were predicated on people having problems that were...
The First Woman Trombonist in Big Bands | Melba Liston, 1926-1999
Melba Liston in the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, 1948 . Melba Doretta Liston (1926 –1999) was an American jazz trombonist,...
Modernist Covers of the 1950s | German graphic designer Otl Aicher
Otl Aicher – Jazz, cover, 1950 Otl Aicher – Kurs montags, Geologie unserer Heimat, cover, 1950 Otl Aicher, Musik des...
Instant Views [o.] Musicians on the beach (1926-1967)
Four musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra play their instruments on Daytona Beach, Florida. They are George Reynolds (trumpet), Alan...
A Letter from Charlie Parker to his wife Chan Parker
Image Copyright © 2010 Hard Rock International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. To you; The way I thought was wrong, having...
Krzysztof Komeda playing sax for Zofia Komeda | Poland, 1958
Wojciech Plewiński: Krzysztof Komeda and his wife Zofia Komeda, Zakopane, Poland, 1958 Wojciech Plewiński: Krzysztof Komeda and his wife...
The Book & the Movie: Mood Indigo / Froth on the Daydream | Boris Vian, 1946 | Charles Belmont, 1968 / Michel Gondry, 2013
L'Ecume des jours Michel Gondry, 2013 '' He took the towel from his middle and slipped a corner of it...