jazz | The Blog Of Gordon Milcham

December 20, 2015
Omnivagus

That night I sat 10 feet from Charlie Watts ^Featured

Organizing my closet found this flyer of the time I saw Charlie Watts from a first row table at the Blue Note. A friend was visiting from Philly and while walking to a bar we noticed this hanging from the door at the Blue Note. There was no line. We just paid cover and sat to drink while he played. Then Shawarmas at Mamoun’s.…

September 22, 2013
Historiae, Imagines, Musica

Billie Holiday: Forever at her peak thanks to photographer ^Featured

American photographer William P. Gottlieb was responsible for some of the most famous portraits of the golden age of jazz.

According to him, Billie Holiday was at her musical and physical peak when he took this picture in 1947, which is considered the most widely used jazz photo of all time. Ironically, that was because she spent the previous year in a federal reformatory for possession of drugs.…

Tag Archives: jazz