12596_256 Big Jay McNeely at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_251 Big Jay McNeely fans at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_263 Big Jay McNeely's bass player at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_202 Big Jay McNeely at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

13327_1 Quentin Jackson backstage at the Shrine Auditorium for Gene Norman's "Just Jazz" concert, Los Angeles, CA, 1951. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

13341_11 Arvil Shaw, circa 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_301 Big Jay McNeely and fans at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

13310_261 Smilin' Smokey Lynn at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_101 Big Jay McNeely and fans at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_262 Big Jay McNeely fan at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_259 Big Jay McNeely fans at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_201 Big Jay McNeely fans at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_501 Big Jay McNeely and L.A. disc-jockey, Hunter Hancock, at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_601 Big Jay McNeely at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_255 Big Jay McNeely fans at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

13317_10 Buck Clayton at "The Benny Goodman Story" recording session, Universal 1955. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

13329_1 Paul Gonslaves backstage at the Shrine Auditorium for Gene Norman's "Just Jazz" concert, Los Angeles, CA, 1951. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_104 Big Jay McNeely at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12598_1 Wardell Gray at the Tiffany Club, Los Angeles, CA, 1951. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

10968_105 Gene Krupa backstage at the Shrine Auditorium for Norman Granz's "Jazz at the Philharmonic" concert, Los Angeles, CA, 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

12596_257 Big Jay McNeely and fans at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

10968_106 Gene Krupa at the Shrine Auditorium for Norman Granz's "Jazz at the Philharmonic" concert, Los Angeles, CA, 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

10968_112 Gene Krupa at "The Benny Goodman Story" recording session, Universal 1955. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

10163_101 Cal Tjader, 1957. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV

2635_0007 Carmen McRae circa mid 1980s © 1980 Bobby Holland

2635_0010 Carmen McRae circa mid 1980s © 1980 Bobby Holland

2635_0001 Carmen McRae circa mid 1980s © 1980 Bobby Holland

2635_0012 Carmen McRae circa mid 1980s © 1980 Bobby Holland

2635_0004 Carmen McRae circa mid 1980s © 1980 Bobby Holland

2586_0190 Peggy Lee & Danny Thomas during the making of "The Jazz Singer," 1953.

24302_0061 Chick Corea circa 1970s © 1978 Ken Shung

2635_0011 Carmen McRae circa mid 1980s © 1980 Bobby Holland

2635_0005 Carmen McRae circa mid 1980s © 1980 Bobby Holland

24302_0072 Eric Gale photographed in the dressing room of a Long Island club named 'My Father's Place' in Roslyn, New York 1977 © 1978 Ken Shung

24302_0007 Charlie Haden 1991 © 1991 Ken Shung

24302_0002 Branford Marsalis 1990 © 1990 Ken Shung

24302_0108 Stephane Grappelli photographed in the dressing room of a Long Island club named 'My Father's Place' in Roslyn, New York 1977 © 1978 Ken Shung

24302_0101 Richard Tee photographed in the dressing room of a Long Island club named 'My Father's Place' in Roslyn, New York 1977 © 1978 Ken Shung

24278_0002 Mulgrew Miller at the "Jazz Gipfel" concert in Stuttgart, Germany 1992 © 1992 Bob Willoughby

24278_0003 Mulgrew Miller at the "Jazz Gipfel" concert in Stuttgart, Germany 1992 © 1992 Bob Willoughby

24262_0262 McCoy Tyner 2006 © 2006 Paul Slaughter

24262_0229 Pat Metheny 2008 © 2008 Paul Slaughter

24262_0265 Frank Vignola 2003 © 2003 Paul Slaughter

24262_0077 Billy Eckstine at the Hollywood Bowl 1973 © 1978 Paul Slaughter

24262_0178 Leonard Feather at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1972 © 1978 Paul Slaughter

24262_0224 Branford Marsalis in Santa Fe 2006 © 2006 Paul Slaughter

24262_0223 Shelly Manne in Los Angeles 1975 © 1978 Paul Slaughter

24262_0159 Ornette Coleman performing at the Monterey Jazz Festival 2007 © 2007 Paul Slaughter

24262_0155 Harry Carney performing in Los Angeles 1973 © 1978 Paul Slaughter

24262_0143 Jonathan Batiste at the New Mexico Jazz Festival 2008 © 2008 Paul Slaughter