Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard

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Lester Young's Hat, 1948
After the tragedy of Katrina, Leonard went through all his negatives and compiled a collection of the best images he could find, alongside some of his well-known classics. A book of the resulting 320 images, called Jazz, is set to be published in October 2010.

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