jazz portraits

Lena Horne

Thelonious Monk

Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach & Tommy Porter

Lionel Hampton

Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawkins & Miles Davis

Billie Holliday (& some cutie pup!)

Milt Jackson

Because I love jazz, was at a great jazz club last night and these are pretty 

amazing jazz portraits by WIlliam Gottlieb.  More found here. 

maxine sullivan

Photos of the very pretty and talented Maxine Sullivan, jazz singer. A singer with a light and intimate vocal style who worked with many of the jazz greats in the 1930s-early 1960s. Such a lovely voice on a lovely woman. And I totally love that little lace cropped jacket she's wearing in that first photo!

Jazzed

I like jazz a lot, particularly the jazz from the 1950s and 1960s. I pretty much have jazz on all day long while I work. My affinity for it began when I was in middle school when I heard Coleman Hawkins on public radio. My mother for some reason hates jazz and couldn't figure out why I would sit around on my bed listening to it. She still feels the same way, I don't get it! What makes the jazz from the 1950s and 1960s even cooler is the album covers, there was a period of time when jazz covers just looks so Mid-Century cool, and terribly modern even today. I got to thinking about jazz covers today because tonight I am going to the Detroit Jazz Festival to see Wayne Shorter, a legend really, a man who played and collaborated with Miles Davis and later Steely Dan (don't get me started on how much I love Steely Dan...)