Hazel Scott chatting with Bill Cosby and James Moody (Yes, Moody’s Mood for Love) in 1968 at a Los Angeles bar called Hong Kong. This photo was included in a March 1968 story about Ms. Scott in Ebony magazine.
Imma need y’all to stop playin’ with all of these sexy Jimi pictures. Okay… #notreally
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Yes, it’s true. Lola Falana really is the “Lola” in Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana.”
Ashford & Simpson, the late great Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, on the back cover of their 1979 album, Stay Free.
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Todd Duncan, the pioneering opera singer, circa 1930s. Mr. Duncan was the first African-American to perform with a major opera company, the New York City Opera. Other career highlights include being selected by George Gershwin to originate the role of Porgy in “Porgy and Bess” and being the first person to record the now classic song, “Unchained Melody.” Mr. Duncan also held a master’s degree from Columbia University and taught voice at Howard University for over fifty years, well into his nineties. He died in 1998.
Mary Lou Williams at a 1942 jam session at the studio of LIFE magazine photographer Gjon Mili. Mili hosted several legendary jam sessions with jazz icons throughout the 1940s. Photo: TIME & LIFE Pictures
Mary Lou Williams Trio, 1944. Mary Lou Williams, the groundbreaking jazz pianist and composer with bassist Al Hall and trumpeter Bill Coleman. Photo: JazzSign/Lebrecht Music & Arts/Corbis.
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A woman playing the violin at Howard University School of Music, circa 1940s. Photo: Scurlock Studio.
Marian Anderson, singing during an Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939. The concert was broadcast on the radio across the nation and the integrated audience of 75,000 including members of the Supreme Court, Congress, and President Roosevelt’s cabinet. The concert was organized after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow Ms. Anderson to sing to an integrated audience at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. solely because of her race. Photo via The Library of Congress.
Marvin Gaye, amazingly enough, would have turned 73 today.
Marvin Gaye, amazingly enough, would have turned 73 today.
I’ll be Doggone! It’s Marvin Gaye and Tina Turner singing live in 1965 on the short-lived 1960s TV-show “Shindig.”
