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,...
Dizzy Gillespie
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...
J[A-Z]Z / p1ck ( Bird and Diz | Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie, 1952
design David Stone Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYpvXTIN-V8 Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie, An Oscar For Treadwell, 1950 Recorded on June 6, 1950...
The Jazz Scene in Paris | Boris Vian, 1920-59
Boris Vian, Le Tabou, Paris, 1947 ''The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938,...
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...
A Great Day in Harlem | 17 East 126th Street, New York City | Art Kane (1958)
After Horace Silver’s death (June 18, 2014), only Sonny Rollins & Benny Golson remain from Art Kane’s ‘A Great Day...
The Book and the Movie: Les Tricheurs / The Cheaters | Marcel Carné (1958)
"Listening to that?" said the woman, pointing with a smile to the radiogram. "That", said...
A jazz visual diary | Photographs by Herman Leonard (1948-1960)
The Metronome All Stars (Eddie Safranski, Billy Bauer, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Lennie Tristano) New York City, 1949 Metronome All-Stars - Overtime (1949) ....
J[A-Z]Z / p1ck ( Be bop / EP | Dizzy Gillespie & His All Star Quintet, 1947
Dizzy Gillespie & His All Star Quintet, Shaw'nuff Recorded 11 may 1945. & 26 february 1947 “It's taken me all my...