Great photo essay from photographer Nat Singerman's collection...

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An almost startling intimacy characterized the smoky jazz clubs in places like Chicago and Cleveland around 1950. Billie Holiday relaxed on a banquette; Ella Fitzgerald sang on small stages, mere feet from the audience. “This was the way this music was supposed to be presented,” says Joe Lauro, the president of the Historic Films Archive in Greenport, N.Y. “They weren’t filling up Madison Square Garden.” Lauro acquired a trove of pictures from this time taken by Nat Singerman, a photographer and jazz lover, that captures some of the era’s jazz greats in color, rare for the subject matter then. “It’s fascinating to see them at this particular moment,” says Loren Schoenberg, the artistic director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, of these previously unpublished pictures. “This was just before rhythm and blues and rock ’n’ roll took the spotlight away from these people.”

Julie Bosman



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Beautiful photography!

It's funny how color photographs lend more dimenional warmth and immediacy to these artists (just my opinion). As beautiful is Black and White photographs are, I think there's a tendency to see the subjects as far removed from our reality. For me the color photography brings these artists to life.....

It's kind of like seeing World War II photography and films in Color, after so many years of only seeing them in Black in White....

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56 W. Madison, Blue Note to be exact.

Magnificent pictures! I was hoping to read, these photos are being publised in a book, maybe someday.

Thats a very stunning picture of Miss Billie Holiday. Great set.

Nice stuff.

paligap said:

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Beautiful photography!

It's funny how color photographs lend more dimenional warmth and immediacy to these artists (just my opinion). As beautiful is Black and White photographs are, I think there's a tendency to see the subjects as far removed from our reality. For me the color photography brings these artists to life.....

It's kind of like seeing World War II photography and films in Color, after so many years of only seeing them in Black in White....

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I was expecting a series of b&w photos.
Agreed that they have their own mysterious film noir type beauty, color gives the subjects a more 3-D life-like quality.


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TD3 said:

56 W. Madison, Blue Note to be exact.

Magnificent pictures! I was hoping to read, these photos are being publised in a book, maybe someday.

Chicago's finest. (at least until 1960?)

Any book would have to be done with the cooperation of Joe Lauro who now owns Nat Singerman's stereoscopic slides the prints came from:
http://6thfloor.blogs.nyt...form/?_r=0
http://shelterislandrepor...joe-lauro/


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That was cool.

theAudience said:

TD3 said:

56 W. Madison, Blue Note to be exact.

Magnificent pictures! I was hoping to read, these photos are being publised in a book, maybe someday.

Chicago's finest. (at least until 1960?)

Any book would have to be done with the cooperation of Joe Lauro who now owns Nat Singerman's stereoscopic slides the prints came from:
http://6thfloor.blogs.nyt...form/?_r=0
http://shelterislandrepor...joe-lauro/


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Yep, Blue closed its doors Nov. of 1960.


When they throw out these clubs names in New York, Detroit, Chicago or where ever they never list their addresses, that bugs me to death. Give your readers a geographical location because location mattered for a lot of reasons. Someone asked me last week was Mister Kelly's on the South or West side of Chicago. No. North Rush, they were a little surprised because they just assumed....

OK. I went off on a tangent.

TD3 said:

Yep, Blue closed its doors Nov. of 1960.


When they throw out these clubs names in New York, Detroit, Chicago or where ever they never list their addresses, that bugs me to death. Give your readers a geographical location because location mattered for a lot of reasons. Someone asked me last week was Mister Kelly's on the South or West side of Chicago. No. North Rush, they were a little surprised because they just assumed....

OK. I went off on a tangent.

I hear you. Accurate information matters!

Not long ago I actually called the owner of The House of Oldies in NYC to ask the owner their original location.
Someone wrote an article mentioning their current location (the one I grew up knowing) was not their first.
At no point did the writer give the original address.


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