Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie, New York City, 1959
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About this photograph
In February 1959, Duke Ellington assembled a cavalcade of jazz heavyweights and superstars for the swinging Jazz Party album. Jazz great Dizzy Gillespie was one of the guests for Duke's party album and the legendary trumpeter's solo on U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group) is still awe-inspiring. Photographer Don Hunstein caught Duke and Dizzy together in the studio during the Jazz Party sessions and the reverence in Ellington's face as he savors the mythic sounds pouring out of Gillespie's trademark upswept horn.
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11" x 14" - Limited Edition
16" x 20" - Limited Edition
20" x 24" - Limited Edition
30" x 40" - Limited Edition
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Archival pigment print
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Archival paper
Signature
Estate stamped
About the photographer
Don Hunstein worked as chief staff photographer for Columbia Records for over thirty years. During his time there Hunstein had access to a broad range of musicians from a wide variety of genres. At the time Columbia Records felt it was important to document the cultural history of the music of their time, giving him the opportunity to do more than album covers and publicity shots. Hunstein photographed hundreds of album covers and documented the recording of many of the great albums in music history.
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