
Portrait of singer Nina Simone (uncredited photographer) via poetryconcrete
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Portrait of singer Nina Simone (uncredited photographer) via poetryconcrete

In the alluring, atmospheric book “Jazz Images,” the late photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir conveys in images the French love of jazz and its heroes. Leloir, who worked for a wide range of publications, was able to take his photographs because the great musicians of the time came to France to perform, whether in Paris clubs and theatres or at the Antibes Jazz Festival, and many of the musicians whose portraits he took or whom he documented in concert were the luminaries of jazz modernity. Read more here.

Don Schlitten :: Sonny Rollins, Newport Jazz Festival, 1963 / source: howard-greenberg

John Vachon :: Billie Holiday, with Teddy Wilson at the piano and Milt Hinton on bass, at the Newport Jazz Festival, July 1954 [for Look magazine] / src and hi-res: Shorpy

Two couples dancing to jazz on the riverside, played on a punt by two women dressed in swimming costumes. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) England, 20th June 1931 / source: ilpost.it