Score with musical notation at right and an image of a partially robed woman emerging from the water

Max Klinger’s Brahms-Phantasie

Brightly colored artwork depicting two Black musicians, one holding a muted trumpet in the air and the other playing the flute

Jazz in Harlem by Stephen Longstreet

Black-and-white photograph of Sarah Vaughan, Pearl Bailey, and Ella Fitzgerald singing on a stage, with an audience member seated at a table visible to the right

Milt Hinton (1910–2000)
Sarah Vaughan, Pearl Bailey and Ella Fitzgerald, Pasadena, CA
Silver gelatin print, ca. 1979
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection

Sarah Vaughan, Pearl Bailey and Ella Fitzgerald, Pasadena, CA

Regarded as one of the most accomplished jazz bassists of the 20th century, Milt Hinton got his start with the Cab Calloway Band and went on to play with many other jazz greats. Eventually CBS invited him to be a staff musician, making him one of the first African Americans to be welcomed into a television studio. Hinton combined his passion for music with a love of photography, and over his career he captured many unforgettable moments of American jazz history. Here he snapped three of the most influential female voices of the genre, Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990), Pearl Bailey (1918–1990), and Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996), rehearsing for a medley of songs to commemorate Bailey’s 40 years in show business. It aired in a feature on CBS on March 14, 1979.

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