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Django Reinhardt & Duke Ellington

Photographer is William P. Gottlieb

linkage: (http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5105156388/in/photostream/)

Portrait of Slam Stewart, Three Deuces, New York NY ca. Sept. 1946 (photo by William Gottlieb)

Original caption from Down Beat Magazine:

It can’t be done, but here is Slam looking sweet and sinister at the same time. This innocent devil has been riding the strings at the Three Deuces on The Street. His tie, you’ll note, was made especially for photogs. It’s the ideal design for focusing.

Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, 52nd Street, New York, N.Y., ca. May 1946 (photo by William Gottlieb)

Original caption in Down Beat:

The Street is Dizzy’s Oyster these days. Musicians, chicks (like the one shown with him here), business agents all flock around Dizzy to hear his frantic ideas, to copy his hats, even to learn how he wears his goatee.

[left to right] John Hardee, Sid Catlett, John Simmons, Sammy Benskin, and Tiny Grimes during John Hardee’s Swingtet session, WOR Studios NYC, January 28 1946 (photo by Francis Wolff)

Jimmy Yancey in 1946

Sonny Clark, age 15

[Photo from a two-part article on Clark’s life in The Paris Review.]