by Herman Leonard

Gerry Mulligan, Amsterdam, May 1957 by Hans Buter 

Gerry Mulligan and Cannonball Adderley at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1957

Chet Baker

Chet Baker  Italy (1961)

Chet Baker by Bob Willoughby, Los Angeles 1953

Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy in the Charles Mingus Sextet, 1964. Photos by Guy Le Querrec.

Charles Mingus

John Coltrane, New York City 1965. (photo by Lee Friedlander)

Dizzy Gillespie

Chet Baker, 1953, photo by Bob Willoughby

“I think some young people want a deeper experience. Some people just wanna be hit over the head and, you know, if then they [get] hit hard enough maybe they’ll feel something. You know? But some people want to get inside of something and discover, maybe, more richness. And I think it will always be the same; they’re not going to be the great percentage of the people. A great percentage of the people don’t want a challenge. They want something to be done to them – they don’t want to participate. But there’ll always be maybe 15% maybe, 15%, that desire something more, and they’ll search it out - and maybe that’s where art is, I think.” Bill Evans  

Kid Cudi Complex Magazine 2013