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Posts tagged with 1950s.
- Date: February 08 2013
- Time: 02·46 PM
- Notes: 30
The Lady & The Count at The Sound of Jazz TV special (1957)
The picture at the top was taken during the second gif.
- Date: February 08 2013
- Time: 01·33 PM
- Notes: 62
Billie Holiday having fun with Count Basie’s Orchestra during their performance of “Dickie’s Dream” on the CBS special The Sound of Jazz (1957)
- Date: January 15 2013
- Time: 02·37 PM
- Notes: 335
- Date: December 13 2012
- Time: 11·14 PM
- Notes: 139
by Jean-Pierre Leloir
Miles Davis and Kenny Clarke (drums), Club Saint-Germain, Paris, December 5, 1957.
(via jazzrelatedstuff)
- Date: December 13 2012
- Time: 07·45 PM
- Notes: 7
- Date: December 11 2012
- Time: 11·03 PM
- Notes: 1163
Quincy Jones and Sarah Vaughan, Paris, photographed by Jean-Pierre Leloir 1958.
(via missavagardner)
- Date: December 11 2012
- Time: 10·50 PM
- Notes: 3313
Billie Holiday at the d’Orly airport, Paris, photographed by Jean-Pierre Leloir, 1958.
(via toshiromifunes)
- Date: November 27 2012
- Time: 12·37 PM
- Notes: 358
Max Roach at the Many Sides of Max session (1959).
Scanned from The Complete Mercury Max Roach Plus Four Sessions booklet from Mosaic Records.
(via tornandfrayed)
- Date: November 16 2012
- Time: 07·32 PM
- Notes: 8
Study In ‘A Minor’ | Jess Stacy
In the beginning of this audio clip, Stacy reminisces about his infamous piano solo during ‘Sing Sing Sing’ with the Benny Goodman band at the 1938 Carnegie Hall concert.
Stacy then begins to play what he had previously improvised 15 years ago.
Recorded in Los Angeles, May 23, 1953.
- Date: October 14 2012
- Time: 01·14 PM
- Notes: 1466
