For #InternationalJazzDay, my favourite jazz photos. One photo per photographer. Sorry, William P.! Thelonious Monk by William P Gottlieb Minton's Playhouse, New York, September 1947 - ThreadSky

dean.bsky.social • 4 days ago

For #InternationalJazzDay, my favourite jazz photos. One photo per photographer. Sorry, William P.!

Thelonious Monk by William P Gottlieb
Minton's Playhouse, New York, September 1947

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fiftywords.bsky.social•4 days ago

dean.bsky.social•4 days ago

For #InternationalJazzDay, my favourite jazz photos.

Bob Willoughby's shot of Shelly Manne, in support of June Christy, with the Stan Kenton Orchestra
Casino Ballroom, Balboa, California, 1950

dean.bsky.social•4 days ago

For #InternationalJazzDay, my favourite jazz photos.

Yale Joel
Ella Fitzgerald at Mr. Kelly's nightclub, Chicago, 1958

dean.bsky.social•4 days ago

For #InternationalJazzDay, my favourite jazz photos.

Gerry Mulligan by Eliot Elisofon, 1954

mattyoung.bsky.social•4 days ago

This one is particularly cool.

dean.bsky.social•4 days ago

For #InternationalJazzDay, my favourite jazz photos.

Bill Evans by Steve Schapiro, 1961

dean.bsky.social•4 days ago

For #InternationalJazzDay, my favourite jazz photos.

Billy Strayhorn by Gjon Mili, mid-1940s

dean.bsky.social•4 days ago

For #InternationalJazzDay, my favourite jazz photos.

Billy Strayhorn by Gjon Mili, mid-1940s

lionofflanders.bsky.social•4 days ago

OK here’s one of my favorites: Aretha Franklin getting an impromptu trumpet lesson from Maynard Ferguson circa 1964…

durwoodclapper.bsky.social•4 days ago

I saw Maynard Ferguson play a concert in a high school gym in Grand Forks, ND, in about 1998, and he was incredible.

lionofflanders.bsky.social•4 days ago

He sure was. I saw him live at every possible chance from the 70s to the ‘aughts and never was less than amazed at his infectious enthusiasm for music.

dean.bsky.social•4 days ago

We’re proud of our Canadian big band arrangers & band-leaders: Gil Evans, Kenny Wheeler, Rob McConnell, Maynard Ferguson, Guido Basso, Chelsea McBride, Darcy James Argue.

And let's not forget Guy Lombardo! 🇨🇦

lionofflanders.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes! Rob McConnell! (Obi Wan Kenobi voice) “That’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time”. Beautiful trombone. Also, let’s not leave out Oscar Peterson…

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