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• Benny Goodman 1937: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Duke Ellington: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Miles Davis: Photo By Herman Leonard
• Louis Armstrong: Photo by Paul Hoeffler
• Billie Holiday: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• View of Sugar Landing, New Orleans, circa 1889: Courtesy Louisiana State Museum
• Louis Armstrong 1925: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• View of Tom Anderson's in New Orleans: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Creole Homes on St Peters Street, New Orleans, LA: Courtesy Louisiana State Museum

• Chicago Skyline: Courtesy Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress #USZ62-31381
• Benny Goodman, 1932: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• View of Chicago, late 1920's: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Residential Alley near Hull House, 1905: Courtesy University of Illinois at Chicago, Universaity Library, Jane Addams Collection
• The Carroll Dickerson Band at the Sunset Café in Chicago, 1922: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• King Olivers Creole Jazz Band in Chicago, 1923: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Times Square New York City 1926: Courtesy Archive Photos
• View of the Renaissance Casino on 7th Avenue, Harlem, 1927: Courtesy Archive Photos
• Times Square New York City 1921: Courtesy Archive Photos
• Marquee of Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, 1947: Courtesy Archive Photos
• Duke Ellington: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Fletcher Henderson 1936: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Duke Ellington Orchestra in New York 1929: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in NYC 1924: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• View of Kansas City Clubs from early 1930s in Kansas City Call newspaper: Courtesy Kansas City Public Library
• Miles Davis and Charlie Parker at Birdland: Photograph by William Gottlieb
• Unknown Band At Reno Club, Kansas City: Courtesy American Jazz Museum
• Count Basie 1936: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Charlie Parker at Three Deuces Club, NYC 1947: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Couple with cart accompanied by policeman during race riots in Chicago 1919: Courtesy Chicago Historical Society #ICHi 23869
• Black Congregation outside wooden church in Louisiana circa 1880-1910: Courtesy Louisiana State Museum

• Newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island: Courtesy Oliver Wendell Holmes Library
• Immigration Scene at Ellis Island, New York during 1900s: Courtesy Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress #USZ62-11203

• Marquee of Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, 1947: Courtesy Photo Archives

• Theolonious Monk, Howard McGhee. Teddy Hill, Roy Eldridge outside Minton's Playhouse, NYC: Photo by William Gottlieb

• The Duke Ellington band at the Cotton Club: Courtesy Schomberg Center for Black Research, New York Public Library

• View of Tom Anderson's in New Orleans: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Unknown Band At Reno Club, Kansas City: Courtesy American Jazz Museum

• Detail from page of Chicago Defender June 17, 1922: Courtesy Chicago Defender

• Page of hand written sheet music: Courtesy Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
• Duke Ellington: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Louis Armstrong: Photograph by Paul Hoeffler

• Clifford Brown: Photo by Chuck Stewart

• Ella Fitzgerald: Photo by William Gottlieb

• Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Courtesy Archive Photos, Metronome Collection

• Chick Webb, 1937: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Tony Parenti Band, New Orleans: Courtesy Louisiana State Museum

• Ray Bryant's Hands 1957: Photo by Paul Hoeffler

• Sidney Bechet and Hot Lips Page: Photo by Charles Peterson Courtesy Don Peterson

• Benny Goodman Trio: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland in NYC 1950: Courtesy Duncan Schiedt

• David Brubeck and Paul Desmond: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Art Blakey: Photo By Lee Tanner

• Ornette Coleman: Photo By Don Schlitten

• Miles Davis: Photo By Urve Kuusik Courtesy SONY Music

• Dizzy Gillespie on 52nd St sign post, NYC: Photo by William Gottlieb
• Spasm Band on New Orleans Street Corner: Courtesy Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University
• NAACP March: Courtesy Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress USZ62-35358

• Groups of blacks posed on levee next to shacks and riverboat: Courtesy Duncan Schiedt

• Payday on the levee New Orleans: Courtesy Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress LCD4-33071

• James Reese Europe conducting his Hellfighters Orchestra in France during WWI 1918: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• The Carroll Dickerson Band at the Sunset Café in Chicago 1922: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Artie Shaw and his orchestra performing on US aircraft carrier during WWII in South Pacific: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Poor People's Campaign March in New York City 1968: Courtesy Schomberg Center for Black Research, New York Public Libaray

• Parisian Red Heads 1927: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Partial view of Record Label Musicraft Salt Peanuts: Musicraft Records
• Tommy Potter and Charlie Parker: Photo by William Gottlieb
• Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley & John Coltrane during "Kind of Blue" session CBS 1959: Photo by Don Hunstein Courtesy SONY music
• Cover of Album Moanin' by Art Blakey and Jazz Messengers: Courtesy Blue Note/Capitol/EMI

• Billie Holiday in Performance 1948: Photo by Herman Leonard
• Benny Goodman 1936: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Art Blakey at the Open Door in NYC: Photo by Bob Parent
• Awning of Village Vanguard 1960's: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Louis Armstrong, 1925: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Duke Ellington: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Count Basie: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Young Benny Goodman 1932: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Billie Holiday in Performance 1948: Photo by Herman Leonard

• Miles Davis: Photo by Herman Leonard

• John Coltrane: Photo by Chuck Stewart

• Lester Young Taking solo at Randals Island Concert, NY 1938: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Ornette Coleman: Photo by Don Schlitten

• Miles Davis at Birdland: unknown

• Tony Parenti Band, New Orleans: Courtesy Louisiana State Museum

• Detail Tommy Dorsey and Bix Beiderbecke of Wolverine Orchestra 1924: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Ray Bryant's Hands 1957: Photo by Paul Hoeffler

• Detail of Charlie Christian and Gene Krupa from Benny Goodman Sextet: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Tommy Potter (and Charlie Parker): Photo by William Gottlieb

• Art Blakey: Photo by Chuck Stewart

• Benny Goodman Sextet: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Miles Davis circa 1955: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Duke Ellington: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Louis Armstrong, 1925: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Cover of Sheet Music by Fats Waller: Courtesy Duncan Schiedt
• Billie Holiday in Performance 1948: Photo by Herman Leonard


• Benny Goodman 1936: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Art Blakey at the Open Door in NYC: Photo by Bob Parent
• Awning of Village Vanguard 1960's: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Billie Holiday in Performance 1937: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Unidentified group in Chicago record store: Courtesy Chicago Historical Society #ICHI 25698
• Duke Ellington conducting orchestra on RKO lot in Hollywood 1930: Courtesy Frank Driggs
• Negro Child Playing phonograph in cabin 1939: Courtesy Schomberg Center for Black Research, New York Public Library

• Production still from Lew Dockstader's Minstrel Show: Courtesy Brown Brothers

• The Carroll Dickerson Band at the Sunset Café in Chicago 1922: Courtesy Frank Driggs

• Black Swan Label: Courtesy Institute for Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

• Mr. Babcock tunes in radio 1943: Courtesy Prints and photographs dividion Library of Congress USW-321-707-c

• Putting Records in Sleeves: Photo by Otto Hess, Music Division, New York Public Library

• Record Cover Duke Ellington at Newport: Courtesy SONY Music/Columbia Records

• Couples Dancing at Savoy Ballroom NYC 1930's: Courtesy Schomberg Center for Black Research, New York Public Libaray

• Miles Davis on stage, Boston 1968: Photo by Lee Tanner
• Club Downbeat on 52nd Street, NYC 1948: Photo by William Gottlieb

• DJ in Booth during 1940's: Courtesy University of Missouri

• Workers Camp Dance 1942 Bridgeton NJ: Courtesy Prints and Photographs Division Library of Congress USF-34-83104-c

• Art Blakey: Photo by Chuck Stewart

• Count Basie Orchestra at Apollo Theater NYC: Courtesy Frank Driggs