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Jazzed About Art

Jazz Photography

Photographers were inspired by the cool sensibilities of jazz musicians as they practiced their craft. Learn more about jazz and the birth of cool in the National Portrait Gallery's online exhibition American Cool.


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Count Basie Band - 2nd Jam

Willie "the Lion" Smith

Dizzy Gillespie at the bandstand, Newport Jazz Festival, RI

Ray Brown

Chet Baker

Dizzy Gillespie

Bud Powell

Ella Fitzgerald

Art Tatum

Billie Holiday

Art Blakey

Duke Ellington

Gerry Mulligan and Zoot Sims

Louis Armstrong

Sarah Vaughan

Stan Getz

Dinah Washington

Charlie Parker

Lester Young

Nat King Cole

Thelonious Monk

Max Roach

Johnny Hodges

Dancing at Jazz Alley. Chicago, Illinois, June 1974, from the series Southern Roads/City Pavements

Clifford Brown

Buddy Rich

Quincy Jones

Frank Sinatra

Sonny Stitt

Fats Navarro

Billy Eckstine

Dexter Gordon

Sidney Bechet

Miles Davis

Fatha Hines


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