Independent Lens . KEEPING TIME . Photo Album

Mosaic of black and white images - links to slide show.

A self-proclaimed “amateur photographer,” jazz bassist Milt Hinton captured intimate portraits of his mentors, colleagues and friends—photos of jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Benny Goodman.

From the color barriers of the segregated South to the integrated studios of New York City, Hinton’s remarkably honest photographs document the evolution of jazz as inseparable from American history itself.

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Music excerpt from "This Time It's Us" Written by Milt Hinton and Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; John Bunch, piano; Milt Hinton, bass; Jackie Williams, drums.
From Milt Hinton: Old Man Time. Courtesy of Chiaroscuro Jazz
Published by MH-DB Productions (ASCAP)
Photos courtesy of the Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection


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