William P. Gottlieb (born January 28, 1917) was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of leading performers of the "Golden Age" of American jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ...

Gottlieb was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Bound Brook, New Jersey. He attended Lehigh University and majored in economics. Bound Brook is a Borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ... Lehigh University is a university based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (within 75 miles (120 km) of Philadelphia and New York City). ...

In 1938 Gottlieb began working for the Washington Post, where he wrote and illustrated a weekly jazz column, perhaps the first in a major newspaper. After World War II he was employed as a writer-photographer for Down Beat magazine, and his work also appeared frequently in Record Changer, the Saturday Review, and Collier's. ... Down Beat is an American magazine devoted to jazz. ... Saturday Review is a UK publication for which Winston Churchill reported. ... Colliers Weekly was a United States magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. ...

During the course of his career, Gottlieb took portraits of hundreds of prominent jazz musicians and personalities, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Jordan, Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Carter. Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) (also known by the nicknames Satchmo and Pops) was an American jazz musician. ... Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington (April 29, 1899 - May 24, 1974) was an American jazz composer, pianist and bandleader. ... Charlie Parker Charles Christopher Parker, Jr. ... Billie Holiday For the Canadian broadcaster, see Billie Holiday (broadcaster). ... Dizzy Gillespie photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 - January 6, 1993) was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. ... Earl Hines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Thelonius Monk, as featured on the cover of his 1956 album, Brilliant Corners Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. ... Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 - August 25, 1979), was an American jazz pianist, and bandleader known for his innovations in jazz music. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David Goodman, (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was a famous Jazz musician, known as King of Swing, Patriarch of the Clarinet, and Swings Senior Statesman. // Childhood and early years Goodman was born in Chicago, the son of poor Jewish immigrants who lived on... Coleman Hawkins Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed Hawk and sometimes Bean, (November 21, 1901 or 1904 - May 19, 1969) was a prominent jazz tenor saxophone musician. ... Louis Jordan swinging on sax, Paramount Theatre, NYC, 1946 (Photo: William P. Gottlieb) Louis Jordan (July 8, 1908 - February 4, 1975) was a pioneering and hugely influential African-American jazz and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. ... Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), was one of the most important jazz singers of the 20th Century, the winner of thirteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Art presented by President Reagan and the Presidential Medal... Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. ...

The William P. Gottlieb Collection in the Library of Congress comprises over 1600 photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documenting the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, Jefferson building The Library of Congress is the unofficial national library of the United States. ...

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