Nocturne

Picture credits

Twelve photographs and one clip, all from public collections, none of them ours.

Picture credits

Every picture is reproduced at the size the page draws it, not at the size the archive holds. Where a licence is share-alike, the reduced copy carries that same licence.

The faces on the records

William Gottlieb photographed the New York clubs between 1938 and 1948 for Down Beat and the Washington Post. The Library of Congress holds the negatives; the pictures are in the public domain.

A hand on the tuning knob of a bakelite set
Al Grey, trombone
Al Grey, undated
Duke Ellington, orchestra
Duke Ellington, undated
Billie Holiday, voice
Billie Holiday, 1947
Thelonious Monk, piano
Thelonious Monk, 1947
Sarah Vaughan, voice
Sarah Vaughan, 1946
Django Reinhardt, guitar
Django Reinhardt, 1946
Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet
Dizzy Gillespie, 1947