Photo, Print, Drawing [Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. June 1946] Diz blossomed out with a big band that somehow squeezes into one of those 52nd Street cellars and somehow manages to pull off those re-bop (or be-bop) phrases in unison

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Title
[Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. June 1946]
Other Title
Diz blossomed out with a big band that somehow squeezes into one of those 52nd Street cellars and somehow manages to pull off those re-bop (or be-bop) phrases in unison
Alternate Title
Diz blossomed out with a big band that somehow squeezes into one of those 52nd Street cellars and somehow manages to pull off those re-bop (or be-bop) phrases in unison
Contributor Names
Gottlieb, William P. -- 1917- (photographer)
Created / Published
1946, monographic.
Subject Headings
-  Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-
-  Jazz musicians -- 1940-1950
-  Trumpet players -- 1940-1950
-  Fifty-second Street (New York, N.Y.) -- 1940-1950
-  Famous Door
Genre
graphic
Notes
-  Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress.
-  Purchase William P. Gottlieb
-  Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).
-  General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at
-  In: The Record Changer, v. 5, no. 6 (Aug. 46, 1946), p. 13.
-  Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 528 (gottlieb assignment)
-  528 (assignment)
-  Famous Door (venue)
-  LC-GLB13-0313 DLC (stock number)
-  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.03131 (url)
Form
electronic resource
remote
nonprojected graphic
photonegative
graphic
Extent
1 negative : b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Repository
Music Division
Access Condition
Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply.
LC Classification
LC-GLB13- 0313
Online Format
image
Additional Metadata Formats
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Rights & Access

In accordance with the wishes of William Gottlieb, the photographs in this collection entered into the public domain on February 16, 2010, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply. Privacy and publicity rights protect the interests of the person(s) who may be the subject(s) of the work or intellectual creation. Users of photographs in the Gottlieb collection are responsible for clearing any privacy or publicity rights associated with the use of the images.

The following items are included in the William P. Gottlieb Collection with permission as noted:

Articles from Down Beat magazine by William Gottlieb and others, Ed Enright, Editor, Down Beat magazine, 102 North Haven Road, Elmhurst, IL 60126-3370.

"The Faces of Jazz," by W. Royal Stokes, Civilization, vol. 2, no. 5, September-October 1995, Civilizaton, Attn. Managing Editor, 666 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Suite 303, Washington, D.C. 20003. Reproduced by permission. All rights reserved.

Credit Line: William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Chicago citation style:

Gottlieb, William P. Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. June. United States, 1946. , Monographic. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.03131/.

APA citation style:

Gottlieb, W. P. (1946) Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. June. United States, 1946. , Monographic. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.03131/.

MLA citation style:

Gottlieb, William P. Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. June. , Monographic. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.03131/>.

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