Shutterbug Friday #5:
Francis Wolff and the Empire of Cool (Vol. 2)

Ornette Coleman
Wilbur Ware
Hank Mobley
Wynton Kelly
Gato Barbieri
Lee Morgan
Charles Tolliver
Bennie Green
Fats Navarro
Roy Haynes
Kenny Burrell
Eric Dolphy
Charlie Haden
Fred Jackson
Dexter Gordon
Joe Chambers
John Coltrane
Jimmy Smith
Arthur Taylor
Julian 'Cannonball' Adderly
Bud Powell
Pharoah Sanders
Miles Davis
Charlie Rouse
Bobby Timmons


12 comments so far:
Did Ornette Coleman really play the violin left-handed? Or is the image reversed?
Could be; but if the image is reversed, I ain't the one what reversed it.
As a hopeless absolute beginner in Jazz, all I can say is that in this series you put all my favourite "cats". Viva Hank Mobley!!!
Thanks for the shout out . . . .
For what it's worth, Wikipedia says he's a lefty on the violin.
Other photos of Ornette Coleman playing the violin available on the Internets, show him playing left-handed.
What a grouping of greats!
Beautiful! Lee Morgan actually appears to (side) winding. Roy Haynes is scandalously dressed down. But my favorite has gotta be Bud Powell.
Miles Davis ist der eleganteste,Bobby Timmons sehr relext.Immer wieder gerne höre ich Pharoah Sanders.
Tom...
Thank you so much for this series. These people were my models, my mentors, my teachers. It was a truly remarkable generation of musicians, that post-WWII through the '70s group of players, a school through which an already great art peaked and flourished. These photos capture the way they really were.
Positive, intense and vivid.
Not just the photos...the people themselves.
Thanks again...
AG
That picture of Coltrane made a great poster until it was destroyed when the levees broke after Hurricane Katrina.
All I can say is, thanks for posting those great pics.
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