As a jazz venue, the mid-town Manhattan club Royal Roost had a short life span. The Royal Roost opened in 1948, but the jazz scene had moved past it less than two years later. In Greenwich Village, ...

Jazz Fest photographer Girard Mouton III probably travels around the Fair Ground's infield more in one day than a racehorse ...

I always find it fascinating when art forms collide. In this case, photography and music. Of course, each has their commonalities but they also have their differences. And, when an artist of one ...

Detroit jazz photographer Jeff Dunn's first solo exhibition is closing this Friday at Ann Arbor's Argus Museum. Dunn, a self-taught photographer, has documented the Detroit jazz scene for about 10 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Here in Music City, we do love a bit of music history. This piece of history is coming to us from an unexpected place, but it's very much a part of the American story.

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Leonard photographed and befriended the greats from the heyday of jazz. In his artful photographs of musicians such as Billie Holiday, Dizzy... Remembering Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard Herman ...

The geography of jazz is hierarchical and evolutionary: New Orleans as Bethlehem and Jerusalem both, then up the river to Chicago, the conquest of New York (with special attention to Harlem), Kansas ...

Bill Gottlieb, 89, a self-taught jazz photographer who took some of the most indelible images of the top musicians bridging the swing and bebop jazz eras, died April 23 at his home in Great Neck, N.Y.

Herman Leonard-- the photographer who captured some of the best-known images of jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis -- answered a knock at the door of ...

Let me start this story with some context: I really like jazz. I’m listening to it right now, and did while I wrote my last article, too. But it isn’t just the music I’m obsessed with. Hung in frames ...

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