Jazz artists legends

Ron Carter

Ray Charles

"The Harlem Stride piano style of James Price Johnson (1894-1955) transformed Ragtime into Jazz. He laid the cornerstone of jazz piano before 1920, influencing Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Art Tatum and Thelonious Monk. An absolute master of the keyboard with perfect pitch, James P. is recognized as the foremost proponent of Harlem Stride piano. His protege Fats Waller recalled learning more in his first afternoon with Johnson than the previous 10 years"

An Eight-Second Film of 1915 New Orleans and the Mystery of Louis Armstrong’s Happiness | The New Yorker

I have started a series of jazz portraits in capturing the smoky interior ambience of clubs in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Billie Holiday

Miles Davis, Amsterdam, 1957, photo by Ed van der Elsken

Coltrane & Davis