Ella Fitzgerald performs and dances in a French nightclub, 1957.
Ella. :) Thank you, sesame-oil and iznogoodgood. :)
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Tom Waits
Anton Corbijn
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. ~ Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Miles Davis during a record session at Columbia Records, NYC. 1958
Dennis Stock
© Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos
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—Henry Rollins discusses the blues on the occasion of Blues for Smoke, on view at the Whitney through April 28. (via whitneymuseum)
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MEN ON A MISSION Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as the Blues Brothers, shot by Annie Leibovitz for Rolling Stone, in 1979.
The pitch was simple: “John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Blues Brothers, how about it?” But the film The Blues Brothers became a nightmare for Universal Pictures, wildly off schedule and over budget, its fate hanging on the amount of cocaine Belushi consumed. From the 1973 meeting of two young comic geniuses in a Toronto bar through the careening, madcap production of John Landis’s 1980 movie, Ned Zeman chronicles the triumph of an obsession. (By Ned Zeman Soul Men: The Making of The Blues Brothers/Vanity Fair)
The two had met earlier in the evening, backstage at Second City. “We had heard of each other,” Aykroyd recalls. “We took one look at each other. It was love at first sight.” more
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John Coltrane with Dizzy Gillespie, The Olympia, Paris 1961
Jean-Pierre Leloir
John Coltrane with Miles Davis, Columbia Recording Studios, New York, NY 1958
Aram Avakian
John Coltrane with Jackie Mclean, Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ 1957
Esmond Edwards
John Coltrane, Columbia Recording Studios, NY, 1958
Don Hunstein
John Coltrane © JeanPierre Leloi