Peri/od/ical: The Record Changer: The Legendary Jazz and Record Magazine from the 1940s and 1950s
The Record Changer, February 1947 The Record Changer, February 1952 The Record changer, March 1945...
Jazz Moments
Writing rhythm & Jazz | Françoise Sagan, 1956-58
Françoise Sagan and friends, 1956 "Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms...
Jazz Album Covers | Photos by Alex de Paula, 1956
Billie Holiday: Solitude, 1956 Photo: Alex de Paula Billie Holiday: Velvet Mood, 1956 Photo: Alex de Paula Anita O´Day: Anita,...
Flick Review < Strip-tease / Sweet Skin | Jacques Poitrenaud, 1963 | Nico, Serge Gainsbourg & Big Joe Turner
Strip-tease (aka Sweet Skin) Director: Jacques Poitrenaud Cast: Nico, Dany Saval, Jean Sobieski, Joe Turner, Renée Passeur, Serge Gainsbourg Music:...
Everybody has a story about Chet Baker | Bruce Weber, 1988
"I told Chet in Cannes when we were interviewing him to sit in front of the film poster of...
Playing chess | Dizzy Gillespie, 1954 – 58
Carl J. Henniger, Jazz trumpeter, Dizzy Gillespie plays a game of chess backstage, Portland, 1954 Dizzy Gillespie's Chess Game Long...
Instant Views [o.] Riverboat Shuffle | Humphrey Lyttelton / Chris Watford / Hoagy Carmichael / Will McBride, 1955-59
A riverboat shuffle on a ferry bound for Calais, France, 1957 A riverboat shuffle Will McBride, River boat shuffle, 1959 Chris...
The Book and the Movie: Young Man With A Horn | Dorothy Baxter (1938) / Michael Curtiz (1950)
''He opened the trumpet case, took the trumpet respectfully in hand, and fitted the mouthpiece into place. He held it...
A Great Day in Harlem | 17 East 126th Street, New York City | Art Kane (1958)
The final curtain has fallen on the legendary 'A Great Day in Harlem' photograph. Sonny Rollins, the last surviving jazz...
Queen of the Clarinet | Ann DuPont and Her Music Men, 1915 -98
Ann DuPont (1915 - 1998), born Ann Bata in Universal, Pennsylvania, and raised in Florida. She began studying clarinet (and...