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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

. . . And All That Jazz Memorabilia!

Louis Armstrong, without trumpet but with his wife, Lil, in Los Angeles in 1930In a basement apartment on Charlton Street in the West Village, there are eight tall file cabinets stuffed with hundreds of dog-eared manila folders.

The cabinets do not look imposing or important, but they contain possibly the finest collection of jazz photos in the world.

Even people with a passing interest in jazz photographs may recall seeing the "Courtesy of the Frank Driggs Collection" tag on pictures in newspapers, magazines, books and documentaries.
[NY Times]

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