Black Music Photos
As a result of diggin’ the web in the past couple of decades, I used to collect all the photos of my favorites black music artists and labels.
Here are the Soul Funk , Jazz and Blues photos galleries, including thousands of live stages, everyday life and portraits shot. Many of them display informations about photos locations, artists names, stories and fun facts.
For example, and as a huge fan, browsing The Temptations gallery would give you a very good idea of their lineup evolution: from Otis Williams & The Siberians in 1958 to The Reunion Tour lineup in 1982, through the great “Classic Five” lineup.
You’ll find releases of famous Soul, Funk, Jazz and Blues artists like Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Gil Scott-Heron, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Art Blakey, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, George Benson, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Nina Simone, Ray Charles,… as well as lesser known black music artists.
Feel free to contact me if you’ve got more to add (or even to correct), I’d be really happy to improve 🙂
Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, Bobby Womack, Chaka Khan, Curtis Mayfield, George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic, Gil Scott-Heron, James Brown, Maceo Parker, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Minnie Riperton, Norman Whitfield, Ohio Players, Otis Redding, Prince, Rose Royce, Sam Cooke, Sly Stone, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, The Meters, The Staple Singers, The Supremes, The Temptations, Undisputed Truth and many others…
Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Art Tatum, Billie Holliday, Bobby Timmons, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Donal Byrd, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Hugh Masekela, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, Quincy Jones, Roy Ayers, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonious Monk and many others…
B.B. King, Bessie Smith, Buddy Guy, Charles Brown, Curtis Knight, Eddie Guitar Slim Jones, Freddie King, Gertrude Ma Rainey, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Moore & The Three Blazers, Johnny Otis, King Curtis, Koko Taylor, Leadbelly, Lighnin’ Hopkins, Lucky Peterson, Lula Reed, Mississippi John Hurt, Muddy Waters, Nina Simone, Ray Charles, Shuggie Otis, Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Raelets, W. C. Handy and many others…
I would also suggest a few of the greatest photographers:
