38 Amazing Portrait Photos of Celebrated Female Jazz Artists Taken by William P. Gottlieb _ OldUS

   

William Paul Gottlieb (1917-2006) was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of the leading performers of the "Golden Age" of American jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. Gottlieb's photographs are among the best known and widely reproduced images of this era of jazz.

 
Celebrated female jazz artists taken by William P. Gottlieb.

During the course of his career, Gottlieb took portraits of hundreds of prominent jazz musicians and personalities, typically while they were playing or singing at well-known New York City jazz clubs. Well-known musicians Gottlieb photographed included Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Jo Stafford, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Jordan, Ella Fitzgerald, Toots Thielemans, and Benny Carter.

These selected photos from his work are portraits of female jazz artists that he took from the 1940s in New York.

Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, Feb. 1947

 

Dardanelle and Joe Sinacore, Hickory House, New York, July 1947

 

Dardanelle, Sheraton Hotel, New York, June 1946

 

Deryk Sampson, Lynn Carver, Justin Arndt, and Clair Dorward, Famous Door, New York, Sept. 1947

 

Doris Day, Aquarium, New York, July 1946

 

Dottie Reid and Chubby Jackson, Onyx, New York, July 1947

 

Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York,
Sept. 1947

 

Ella Fitzgerald, New York,  Nov. 1946

 

Eve Young, Jan. 1947

 

Gene Williams and Fran Warren, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, Oct. 1947

 

Gloria King, New York, Apr. 1947

 

Gracie Barry and Dick Stabile, New York, between 1946 and 1948

 

Imogene Coca, Mary Lou Williams, and Ann Hathaway, between 1938 and 1948

 

Jerry Wald and Alberta Grusd, New Yorker Hotel, New York, Aug. 1947

 

Josephine Premice, Village Vanguard, New York, July 1947

 

June Christy, Club Troubadour, New York, Sept. 1947

 

Lena Horne, New York, between 1946 and 1948

 

Lilyann Carol, National studio, New York, Oct. 1946

 

Linda Keene, New York, July 1946

 

Machito and Graciela, Glen Island Casino, New York, July 1947

 

Margaret Whiting, New York, between 1946 and 1948

 

Marion Hutton, Gordon MacRae, Jerry Wald, Mel Tormé, and Jerry Jerome, Saturday Teentimers Show, New York,
Aug. 1947

 

Mary Lou Williams, New York, 1946

 

Maxine Sullivan, Village Vanguard, New York, Mar. 1947

 

Mildred Bailey, Carnegie Hall, New York, Apr. 1947

 

Nellie Lutcher, New York, between 1946 and 1948

 

Norma Sheppard, between 1938 and 1948

 

Sarah Vaughan, Café Society (Downtown), New York, Aug. 1946

 

Sylvia Syms, Little Casino, New York, June 1947

 

Teddy Kaye, Vivien Garry, and Arv(in) Charles Garrison, New York, between 1946 and 1948

 

Vivien Garry, Dixon's, New York, May 1947

 

A vocalist with Justin Stone's ensemble, between 1938 and 1948

 

Adele Girard and Joe Marsala, Hickory House, New York, between 1946 and 1948

 

Ann Hathaway, Café Society (Downtown), New York, between 1946 and 1948

 

Bertha Chippie Hill, New York, between 1946 and 1948

 

Beryl Davis and Tommy Dorsey, WMCA, New York, Oct. 1947

 

Betty George, Copacabana, New York, Sept. 1947

 

 
Billie Holiday, Carnegie Hall, New York, between 1946 and 1948