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Jimmy Garrison

“It starts with this group: with McCoy and Elvin and Jimmy Garrison.” - John Coltrane

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[lostinurbanism]

“The Truth of the Times!” Detroit, Photography by Dave Jordano (1973)

[electronicsquid]

Twisting the night away

(Ralph Crane. 1961)

[oldnewyorklandia]

William Klein, See Saw Gang, New York, 1955.

[vintageblackglamour]

Billie Holiday and Hazel Scott enjoy each other’s company at party in 1957. In “Lady Didn’t Always Sing the Blues,” a 1973 article in Ebony magazine, her friend Ms. Scott said, “The thing I hope the kids don’t miss – the ones who are just discovered Lady – is that she took a lot of the tragedy of her life and made something beautiful out of it; something very beautiful.” The photo was taken by the legendary photographer Roy DeCarava (1919-2009).

[gospelfunk]

Blessed Be The Name Of God - The Brooklyn Allstars (Too Close To Heaven, 1972)

[gospelfunk]

Look Where He Brought Me From - The Fabulous Luckett Brothers (Jesus Is Real, 1975)

[regular-love]

You are art

[mistons]

NYC 1950s. Flatiron Building. 

Kodachrome, unknown photog., via Embitt. 

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Cantalope Island - Hélios Fernandez

[themaninthegreenshirt]

Vinyl

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[zzzze]

Miles :)

[nitratediva]

Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, choreographed by Frankie Manning, in Hellzapoppin’ (1941).

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The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (from left, Chico Hamilton, Red Mitchell, Mulligan and Jon Eardley) performing at Stockton High School, November 1954. Photo by William Claxton 

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beautiful

[yesterdaysprint]

A bus in the rain, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1949