Blues Music Collection

Illustration, jazz band, six men wearing bow ties and waistcoats playing trumpet, trombone, drums, clarinet, banjo and double bass, front view

Billie Holiday
1954: American jazz singer Billie Holiday (1915 - 1959), also known as Lady Day, during a performance. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7380 - Billie Holiday - unpub

Composer W.C.Handy Writing Music
Composer W.C. Handy makes notations on sheet music while creating St. Louis Blues

Dionne Warwick in an Evening Dress
A portrait of blues singer Dionne Warwick in an evening dress

Ethel Merman Actress And Broadway Singer
(Original Caption) Ethel Merman actress and Broadway blues singer. Undated photo

Portrait Of Singer Ella Fitzgerald
(Original Caption) Portrait of American blues singer, Ella Fitzgerald. She is shown posing in a studio in a sequined dress. Undated photo circa 1940s

Ray Charles Standing And Singing
(Original Caption) Ray Charles, musician and singer. Filed 7/4/1962

Blues Composer W.C. Handy
William Christopher Handy (1873-1958), US composer and musician, was the first to identify and publish songs in the blues genre. Some of his best-known tunes are Memphis Blues, St

Libby Holman, Blues/Nightclub Singer
(Original Caption) Libby Holman, famous night-club and blues singer. Photograph ca.1930'S. Publicity handout

Ella Fitzgerald Performing Full Length
(Original Caption) Ella Fitzgerald, famous American blues singer during a performance. Undated photograph

Joe Turner Singing On Stage
(Original Caption) Portrait of blues singer Joe Turner performing on stage in 1939. He is shown singing into a microphone

Blues Singer Lead Belly
Close-up of jazz musician Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter. Photograph, May 1966

B.B. King Performing at Farm Aid
(Original Caption) 9/22/1985-Champaign, IL- B.B. King brought the house down at the Farm Aid concert in Champaign, playing his guitar called Lucille

Singer Dinah Washington
(Original Caption) Picture shows a headshot of singer Dinah Washington. Undated photo circa 1950s

Singer Nat King Cole Holding Microphone
Singer Nat "King" Cole holding microphone during a concert

Josephine Baker Talking to Cuban Policeman
A Cuban police officer stands with American blues singer Josephine Baker as she picketed a Havana radio station in protest over the cancellation of her contract with the Montmertre Night Club

Althea Gibson and W.C. Handy Singing
(Original Caption) 11/17/1957-New York, NY- Tennis champion Althea Gibson combines with famed Negro blues composer W.C

Dinah Washington Singing
(Original Caption) Portrait of Dinah Washington, "Queen of the Blues, " at microphone. Photograph, 1959

Crowd Funeral Procession for Billie Holiday
(Original Caption) 7/21/1959-New York: Fans and friends of jazz singer Billie Holiday line the area as her casket is carried into church here for a solemn requiem mass

Mourners Outside Church for Billie Holiday's Funeral
(Original Caption) 7/21/1959-New York, NY- Crowds mill around St. Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church as the casket of blues singer Billie Holiday is brought out following a solemn requiem mass

Ray Charles at Piano
(Original Caption) Ray Charles

Ray Charles Singing at the Piano
(Original Caption) Ray Charles, musician and singer. Filed 7/4/1962

Pedestrian on Beale Street
A pedestrian on Beale Street, the legendary birthplace of the blues and center of jazz music, Memphis, Tennessee. The street is lined with pawn shops and fruit stands

Janis Joplin Singing
(Original Caption) Janis Joplin (1943-1970), American rock singer, and electrifying performer. Head and shoulders photograph during a performance, ca. 1969

B.B. King Playing Guitar
Blues singer B.B. King playing guitar and smoking

John Mayall Playing a Guitar
British Blues musician John Mayall playing his guitar

Jazz Musician Albert King Playing Gibson Flying V Guitar
05/27/1970-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Albert King, Blues musician, closeup (waist up) with Gibson Flying-V guitar

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