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One satisfaction of researching jazz photography—for it is a lot of fun—is the rare occasion when the images can be married to sounds. The ...

Photo by Lauren Lancaster / NYT/Redux “Well, youʼre not going to get very far in the musical world without some kind of a defect.” C...

George Avakian, Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins Newport Jazz Festival, July 6, 1963 ©Burt Goldblatt/CTS Images George Avakian has...

(All the photos below are by William P. Gottlieb, and are available at the Library of Congress website . —click on them for a larger view.)...

Sergio Pujol Oscar Alemán: La guitarra embrujada Planeta; Buenos Aires, 2015 Paperback; 312 pp. The life of Oscar Alemán (1909-1...

When I blogged about Charlie Christian's centennial last July , I said that discussions about who was first to record a regular, or ...

John Coltrane and Rudy Van Gelder, early 1960s Phonography is one of the motors of jazz. Without recorded sound, the fast evolution of t...