Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine & Dizzy Gillespie
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Dizzy Gillespie & Danilo Perez
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Henry Grimes, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins & Sonny Rollins- Teatro Dell'Arte Milan, Italia 1963.
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Michel Petrucciani, Eddie Gomez and Richard Preusser (accompanist and conductor) during a break at the Nice Jazz Festival, 1986. Photo: Dany Gignoux
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In 1973, Billy Cobham, Carlos Santana, and John McLaughlin collaborated on one of the most iconic projects in jazz-rock fusion: the album Love Devotion Surrender, recorded by Santana and McLaughlin with Cobham on drums. #jazz #art #jazzhistory #jazzlegends

Thelonious Monk with his wife Nellie Smith and their children T. S. Monk and Barbara Monk.
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Bunk Johnson claimed to have mentored Armstrong in New Orleans around 1911. According to Bunk, he taught Louis to play songs like "Ballin' the Jack" by ear in the city's honky-tonks.
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Coleman Hawkins & Thelonious Monk
Both Hawkins and Monk were featured artists at the sixth annual Newport Jazz Festival, which opened on July 2, 1959. #jazz #art #jazzhistory #jazzlegends

Wayne Shorter and McCoy Tyner at Shorter's recording session on April 29, 1964, for "Night Dreamer" (Blue Note) at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, Orrin Keepnews, Ralph Kaffel, Al Foster & producer Bill Graham-Gira Milestones JazzStars - San Francisco 1978.
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Carlos Santana & Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988, #jazz #art #jazzhistory #jazzlegends

Michael Brecker & McCoy Tyner
Photo: Umberto Germinale #jazz #art #jazzhistory #jazzlegends

"Working with Wayne Shorter was like entering a space of spiritual exploration, where music was a form of conversation with the unknown."
Esperanza Spalding
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“We didn’t need to talk too much with Joe. Music was our form of communication. ”
Wayne Shorter on Joe Zawinul
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Dizzy Gillespie tocando en el 2.º Festival Anual de Jazz de Mayport
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Return to Forever was a pioneering American jazz fusion band founded in 1972 by keyboardist Chick Corea. Alongside Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra, they are considered one of the core groups of the 1970s fusion movement. #jazz #art #jazzhistory #jazzlegends

Oscar Peterson & Ella Fitzgerald en el Festival Hall, London, England.

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Miles Davis, Monterey Jazz Festival, September 19, 1964
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The first ever recording of Chet Baker is next to Charlie Parker. Performed live on June 16, 1952 at the Trade Winds Hotel, Inglewood, California. #jazz #art #jazzhistory #jazzlegends

John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, and Lee Morgan famously played together on September 15, 1957, at the legendary recording session for Coltrane's iconic album Blue Train at Van Gelder Studio,
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