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tornandfrayed: Thelonious Monk by Eddy Posthuma de Boer.
bainer: John Coltrane backstage at Stanford University a few months before his death in 1966 (photo by Jim Marshall)
tornandfrayed: Miles Davis by Piter Doele.
tornandfrayed: John Coltrane at Temple University, 1966. Photo by Omar Kharem, I think.
theodorafitzgerald: The only known photograph of cornetist Buddy Bolden
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drum-taps:

Miles Davis—“Red China Blues”

Get Up With It (Columbia 1974).

Play loud.

2 months ago     59 notes     Reblog » classicbluenotes
tornandfrayed: Miles Davis, May 1958, by Robert W. Kelley.
tornandfrayed: Don Byas in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 1969. He would die in Amsterdam of lung cancer 3 years later. Photo by Pieter Boersma.
2 months ago     54 notes     Reblog » bainer

atane:

Sonny Rollins remembers Jackie McLean

2 months ago     9 notes     Reblog » atane
tornandfrayed: John Coltrane, The Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA 1963. Photo by Lee Tanner.
bainer: Wayne Shorter during his Et Cetera session, Englewood Cliffs NJ, June 14 1965 (photo by Francis Wolff)
atane: Art Blakey Photo by Francis Wolff