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 Moments
Jazz Album Covers | Designed by Neil Fujita, 1955-1959
Charles Mingus: Ah Um, 1959 / Dave Brubeck: Time Out, 1959 Design...
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...
Drawings | Stuart Davis, 1892-1964
Stuart Davis, New Jersey Landscape (Seine-Cart), 1939 Stuart Davis, Shapes of Landscape Space, 1930s Stuart Davis, Composition No. 4, 1932...
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...
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,...